LOL I haven't seen one of these since like 1978. Who still has these joints?
I used to buy that shit in the can at the supermarket
Every old coffee can around my house growing up was one of these. It actually made things tough to find, though, ???cause you never knew if it was a change jar, a sugar jar, or if it was just full of nails.
Wasn't Starbucks busted for using this shit a few years back... or some equivalent.
As for D&D, I agree subpar Donuts and shit coffee. My wife loves it.
As for service, the ones around here are run by a family of Indians and are severely on point with service and customer satisfaction.
The ones I frequented in Southie (Boston) were run by Irish who hired 'just-don't-give-a-fuck' teenie boppers.
The ones I frequented in Southie (Boston) were run by Irish who hired 'just-don't-give-a-fuck' teenie boppers.
I'm actually surprised when someone does give a fuck. If a counter person smiles at me and seems to genuinely care at all, it's alarming. As in, why aren't you out back getting stoned for your $5.50 an hour?
Where i live, the donkin donuts' run like machines. the people working there are all indian and i believe that they are related to the owners or part owners. i don't eat donuts but i'm addicted to their coffee and the bagels aren't bad. if d&d was a public company i would buy stock.
Where i live, the donkin donuts' run like machines. the people working there are all indian and i believe that they are related to the owners or part owners. i don't eat donuts but i'm addicted to their coffee and the bagels aren't bad. if d&d was a public company i would buy stock.
d&d > starbucks
hell no, starbucks all day, and i dont even go there like that.
Where i live, the donkin donuts' run like machines. the people working there are all indian and i believe that they are related to the owners or part owners. i don't eat donuts but i'm addicted to their coffee and the bagels aren't bad. if d&d was a public company i would buy stock.
d&d > starbucks
I don't know if I'd go that far, but I def ride for DD coffee. Kind of like the Rolling Rock of coffee, i.e. OK, regular, reasonably priced coffee. I get the big bags at BJ's Wholesale for home use.
We have a boutique coffee roaster in Asbury Park, but they keep weird hours and I can't always get down there.
It doesn't help that I love strong coffee and my wife is all on the tutti frutti caramel machiatto trip...
PS I always thought Krispy Kreme donuts were wayyyy overrated.
I def ride for DD coffee. Kind of like the Rolling Rock of coffee, i.e. OK, regular, reasonably priced coffee. I get the big bags at BJ's Wholesale for home use.
Can't let the DD hatters completely dominate this thread.
I was in Toronto this past weekend and had Tim Hortons donuts for the first time. Not bad, I must say.
Never had Tim Hortons. Dunkin Donuts are ok for mass-produced doughnuts. Definitely better than all Krispy Kreme, except for the hot fresh off the line krispy kremes, which are a doughnut sui generis.
If you want the real deal, go to Elgin Illinois to Roll N Donut, just off the interstate at the State Road 25 exit. Hand-cut doughnuts, sold out by noon, closed by 2 daily. Best doughnut shop in the world.
Honorable Mention: Dat Donut, Chicago, IL (Try the Big Dat. It's incredible) Old-Fashioned Donuts, Chicago, IL (if you get there when they're hot, you're in luck) Lamar's Donuts, Kansas City, MO (also franchised - try the Lamar Bar - filled with marshmallow fluff - hello diabetes!) World's Fair Donuts, St. Louis, MO (excellent applesauce filled donuts, and the place is like a timewarp) Randy's Donuts, Inglewood, CA (best shape shop ever)
I was in Toronto this past weekend and had Tim Hortons donuts for the first time. Not bad, I must say.
Never had Tim Hortons. Dunkin Donuts are ok for mass-produced doughnuts. Definitely better than all Krispy Kreme, except for the hot fresh off the line krispy kremes, which are a doughnut sui generis.
If you want the real deal, go to Elgin Illinois to Roll N Donut, just off the interstate at the State Road 25 exit. Hand-cut doughnuts, sold out by noon, closed by 2 daily. Best doughnut shop in the world.
Honorable Mention: Dat Donut, Chicago, IL (Try the Big Dat. It's incredible) Old-Fashioned Donuts, Chicago, IL (if you get there when they're hot, you're in luck) Lamar's Donuts, Kansas City, MO (also franchised - try the Lamar Bar - filled with marshmallow fluff - hello diabetes!) World's Fair Donuts, St. Louis, MO (excellent applesauce filled donuts, and the place is like a timewarp) Randy's Donuts, Inglewood, CA (best shape shop ever)
I gotta add Gibson's Doughtnuts in Memphis...they have this exclusive doughnut called the "New Orleans", its not like a beignet...but an almost spherical doughnut with a really fluffy, eggy texture and taste, they are bad ass...
I gotta add Gibson's Doughtnuts in Memphis...they have this exclusive doughnut called the "New Orleans", its not like a beignet...but an almost spherical doughnut with a really fluffy, eggy texture and taste, they are bad ass...
Added to the list of doughnut places to try. Sounds very promising. Can I get a location more specific than Memphis? Thanks.
I gotta add Gibson's Doughtnuts in Memphis...they have this exclusive doughnut called the "New Orleans", its not like a beignet...but an almost spherical doughnut with a really fluffy, eggy texture and taste, they are bad ass...
Added to the list of doughnut places to try. Sounds very promising. Can I get a location more specific than Memphis? Thanks.
[If you want the real deal, go to Elgin Illinois to Roll N Donut, just off the interstate at the State Road 25 exit. Hand-cut doughnuts, sold out by noon, closed by 2 daily. Best doughnut shop in the world.
Honorable Mention: Dat Donut, Chicago, IL (Try the Big Dat. It's incredible) Old-Fashioned Donuts, Chicago, IL (if you get there when they're hot, you're in luck)
oh snap! are these guys online? If not can you furnish some addresses? I'm in Chicago and always looking to expand on my local donut experience.
I seem to remember a donut shop in Portland Maine that was next to a strip club and had topless women working the counter, titties and donuts, best of both worlds.
I seem to remember a donut shop in Portland Maine that was next to a strip club and had topless women working the counter, titties and donuts, best of both worlds.
my wife used to go there. says it no longer exists...
[If you want the real deal, go to Elgin Illinois to Roll N Donut, just off the interstate at the State Road 25 exit. Hand-cut doughnuts, sold out by noon, closed by 2 daily. Best doughnut shop in the world.
Honorable Mention: Dat Donut, Chicago, IL (Try the Big Dat. It's incredible) Old-Fashioned Donuts, Chicago, IL (if you get there when they're hot, you're in luck)
oh snap! are these guys online? If not can you furnish some addresses? I'm in Chicago and always looking to expand on my local donut experience.
I am going to cosign the OK-ness of Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Not great but not bad either. I usually order it, in D&D terminology, "easy-easy" which means easy cream, easy sugar.
But what's really real is Inteligensia (sp), a relatively small coffee company based in Chicago that comes correct. Very good stuff. No donuts though.
Verb -- ever tried Huck Finn on the South Side? A few locations spread out but they sell homemade donuts which aren't terrible. Most of the physical restaurants are pretty dumpy though.
I used to love the desert donuts they served greasy-bag-of-donuts style at a BBQ chain called Smoky Bones -- I loved that place. The closed one I know of these days is all the way out in Merriville, Ind.
Honorable Mention: Dat Donut, Chicago, IL (Try the Big Dat. It's incredible) Old-Fashioned Donuts, Chicago, IL (if you get there when they're hot, you're in luck)
oh snap! are these guys online? If not can you furnish some addresses? I'm in Chicago and always looking to expand on my local donut experience.
Expand on your southside experience and you will get yourself to Dat Donut and Old-Fashioned Donuts.
DAT DONUT, 8249 Cottage Grove. In the front of Leon's Bar-B-Que (Leon's maybe closed now). Right on the corner of 83rd and Cottage Grove. It has a parking lot.
OLD-FASHIONED DONUTS, 11248 S. Michigan Avenue. In between 112th and 113th on S. Michigan. Get down there. No parking lot, but on-street parking is typically available within one or two blocks.
For Roll N' Donut, head far west. Past Ikea. Take the Elgin exit for State road 25. Turn left when you get to the end of the offramp. Roll N' Donut is on your left in about half a mile. Nice sign, plenty parking, and drive through available if you want to sugar up before hitting Ikea or other Schaumberg points of interest.
ROLL N' DONUT, 1315 Dundee Avenue. Elgin.
I never made it to Huck Finn, but I think I saw one once down in the 50s somewhere out near Midway. And bag o' donuts sounds interesting, but if anything other than doughnuts were fried in that grease, I would be stridently opposed. There's this chinese jernt that pops doughnuts in with its egg rolls, and it makes the doughnuts be nauseating.
But what's really real is Inteligensia (sp), a relatively small coffee company based in Chicago that comes correct. Very good stuff. No donuts though.
True on all counts. Intelligentsia is a good coffee shop, but if you want even better coffee in Chicago, head a little farther north to the Granville stop on the red line. Walk a few blocks towards the lake and you will find Metropolis, the hands-down best coffee in Chicagoland. Do yourself a favor and order a latte. It's worth the wait. Accept no substitutes.
METROPOLIS COFFEE, 1039 W. Granville.
Like Intelligentsia, also no doughnuts (the short-lived old-fashioned donuts north was nearby, but it was only open (if at all) for a matter of months).
Good lookin out. I have not been to any of these places. I live in the far West Loop (West Town? Near West Side?) and rarely get out much anymore, so my local experience of anything is narrow to say the least. I'm saving the above information for future reference.
and on an unrelated note, is there a way to make this one bigger?
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Wasn't Starbucks busted for using this shit a few years back... or some equivalent.
As for D&D, I agree subpar Donuts and shit coffee. My wife loves it.
As for service, the ones around here are run by a family of Indians and are severely on point with service and customer satisfaction.
The ones I frequented in Southie (Boston) were run by Irish who hired 'just-don't-give-a-fuck' teenie boppers.
I'm actually surprised when someone does give a fuck. If a counter person smiles at me and seems to genuinely care at all, it's alarming. As in, why aren't you out back getting stoned for your $5.50 an hour?
Yeah, Chock is trying to make a comeback...goin' for that Starbucks money.
Dunkin D's sucks ass. Krispy kreme was way better, but for real donuts are just nasty to me. Fried cake? gross.
d&d > starbucks
hell no, starbucks all day, and i dont even go there like that.
fried anything really.
I don't know if I'd go that far, but I def ride for DD coffee. Kind of like the Rolling Rock of coffee, i.e. OK, regular, reasonably priced coffee. I get the big bags at BJ's Wholesale for home use.
We have a boutique coffee roaster in Asbury Park, but they keep weird hours and I can't always get down there.
It doesn't help that I love strong coffee and my wife is all on the tutti frutti caramel machiatto trip...
PS I always thought Krispy Kreme donuts were wayyyy overrated.
Anh yeah, the number of dunkin donuts in boston shocked me. and all the women kinda looked like rachel ray to me.
They just taste like pure sugar, as if there's no cake.
yuck.
Exactly. I like donuts, but Krispy Kremes turn my stomach. And I definitely can't eff with icing on top of the glaze!
BAN!
I was in Toronto this past weekend and had Tim Hortons donuts for the first time. Not bad, I must say.
Can't let the DD hatters completely dominate this thread.
Never had Tim Hortons. Dunkin Donuts are ok for mass-produced doughnuts. Definitely better than all Krispy Kreme, except for the hot fresh off the line krispy kremes, which are a doughnut sui generis.
If you want the real deal, go to Elgin Illinois to Roll N Donut, just off the interstate at the State Road 25 exit. Hand-cut doughnuts, sold out by noon, closed by 2 daily. Best doughnut shop in the world.
Honorable Mention:
Dat Donut, Chicago, IL (Try the Big Dat. It's incredible)
Old-Fashioned Donuts, Chicago, IL (if you get there when they're hot, you're in luck)
Lamar's Donuts, Kansas City, MO (also franchised - try the Lamar Bar - filled with marshmallow fluff - hello diabetes!)
World's Fair Donuts, St. Louis, MO (excellent applesauce filled donuts, and the place is like a timewarp)
Randy's Donuts, Inglewood, CA (best shape shop ever)
I gotta add Gibson's Doughtnuts in Memphis...they have this exclusive doughnut called the "New Orleans", its not like a beignet...but an almost spherical doughnut with a really fluffy, eggy texture and taste, they are bad ass...
Added to the list of doughnut places to try. Sounds very promising. Can I get a location more specific than Memphis? Thanks.
yes
760 Mt. Moriah Memphis, TN
this kid's fingernails are turning my stomach.
Seriously, wash that kids hands.
oh snap! are these guys online? If not can you furnish some addresses? I'm in Chicago and always looking to expand on my local donut experience.
gross.
my wife used to go there. says it no longer exists...
so many milk jokes to be made here.
I am going to cosign the OK-ness of Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Not great but not bad either. I usually order it, in D&D terminology, "easy-easy" which means easy cream, easy sugar.
But what's really real is Inteligensia (sp), a relatively small coffee company based in Chicago that comes correct. Very good stuff. No donuts though.
Verb -- ever tried Huck Finn on the South Side? A few locations spread out but they sell homemade donuts which aren't terrible. Most of the physical restaurants are pretty dumpy though.
I used to love the desert donuts they served greasy-bag-of-donuts style at a BBQ chain called Smoky Bones -- I loved that place. The closed one I know of these days is all the way out in Merriville, Ind.
Expand on your southside experience and you will get yourself to Dat Donut and Old-Fashioned Donuts.
DAT DONUT, 8249 Cottage Grove. In the front of Leon's Bar-B-Que (Leon's maybe closed now). Right on the corner of 83rd and Cottage Grove. It has a parking lot.
OLD-FASHIONED DONUTS, 11248 S. Michigan Avenue. In between 112th and 113th on S. Michigan. Get down there. No parking lot, but on-street parking is typically available within one or two blocks.
For Roll N' Donut, head far west. Past Ikea. Take the Elgin exit for State road 25. Turn left when you get to the end of the offramp. Roll N' Donut is on your left in about half a mile. Nice sign, plenty parking, and drive through available if you want to sugar up before hitting Ikea or other Schaumberg points of interest.
ROLL N' DONUT, 1315 Dundee Avenue. Elgin.
I never made it to Huck Finn, but I think I saw one once down in the 50s somewhere out near Midway. And bag o' donuts sounds interesting, but if anything other than doughnuts were fried in that grease, I would be stridently opposed. There's this chinese jernt that pops doughnuts in with its egg rolls, and it makes the doughnuts be nauseating.
True on all counts. Intelligentsia is a good coffee shop, but if you want even better coffee in Chicago, head a little farther north to the Granville stop on the red line. Walk a few blocks towards the lake and you will find Metropolis, the hands-down best coffee in Chicagoland. Do yourself a favor and order a latte. It's worth the wait. Accept no substitutes.
METROPOLIS COFFEE, 1039 W. Granville.
Like Intelligentsia, also no doughnuts (the short-lived old-fashioned donuts north was nearby, but it was only open (if at all) for a matter of months).
and on an unrelated note, is there a way to make this one bigger?