Well, I thought it was important news.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
OH MY GOD! Where is the closest Krispy Kreme? Oh, wait. Its sixty miles away and I don't eat donuts that much. Well, that spoils my day.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*hates Krispy Kreme with a passion*
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
I wonder if Winchell's will honor the Krispy Kreme freebee?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I prefer Pop Tarts most days. Krispy Kreme is good, but its too good. It makes you sick after eating one and a half.
Posted by Peter (Member # 4373) on :
*drool* hmmmmmm............krispy kreme.........*drool*
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Drooling is not permitted in this thread! *slaps hand* Anyway, when you drool its more of a, "hofkkkkkkk"
Posted by Steev (Member # 6805) on :
Krispy Kreme is the ultimate evil corporate empire next to tobacco companies, MacDonald’s and Mrs. Fields Cookies. They (Krispy Kreme) overtly encourage addiction of the Donut. As a recovering Donut addict myself I feel their marketing strategy is akin to selling cigarettes to children. Fortunately, I’ve managed to break the addition and no longer require a Donut hit. But many people are not aware of the dangerous diseases that my result when becoming addicted to Donut such as Obesity, Diabetes and Thrush to name a few.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Pepsi is up there too. I know a lot of people, including myself, who are or have developed an addiction to Pepsi.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Hmmm. What about sharp Tillamook cheddar cheese addictions?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
What about Starbuck's?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
At the Atlanta airport, there is a Starbucks every three feet. I'm not kidding. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating. Its more than three feet. But its pretty close. Either way, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Krispy Kreme, and Pepsi will be the first evil corporations to get their own planet.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
"Welcome to Planet Pepsi. It is the fizziest planet in the sector."
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
"a free doughnut"??
There has never been a time I have gone into a Krispy Kreme that they haven't given me a free donut as I stood in line or order or decide what I want. They always hand out freebies. How is this different?
FG
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Noooo the closet Krispy Kreme is 2 hours away!!! Damn you Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins franchise.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
okay, now I have to call in sick tomorrow... Krispy Kreme is in my train station and right in the main path out of the building. It's going to take me a small eternity to get out of the station to get to work and again to get into the station to go home...
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
About two and a half seconds after I checked out this thread, they announced it on the radio. Still doesn't do me any good, but whoa.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
It's probably a good thing there's no Krispy Kreme nearby. I love em.
About Starbucks (note the lack of apostrophe!!), though...the Atlanta airport doesn't hold a candle to downtown Seattle. I went to a conference there in November. Our hotel was three blocks from the conference hotel. In between our hotel and the conference hotel, there were seven (!!) full Starbucks shops, and there was a mini-cart inside the conference hotel, as well.
When we walked into a nearby mall, which was two stories, but relatively small, we counted four, two of them within eyeshot of each other.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Starbucks, and the whole coffee shop craze in general, started in Seattle. I remember going out there in 1987 and thinking it was the coolest thing.
Dunkin Donuts is like that here in Massachusetts. What, and intersection without a Dunkin Donuts?? What are you thinking?
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Rats! Forgot to go by Krispy Kreme on the way to work today after reading this thread last night!
FG
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Dan, I hate you. Now I have this awful craving for donuts, and no supermarket is going to be open until tomorrow night.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Well, I was miraculously spared. No signs or anything at the KK in the train station, no abnormal lines, nothing. And I wasn't going to wait to make an issue of a free donut when I don't especially care for their fluffballs anyway. Give me something with some body to it!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yes! Since I moved away from LA, I have been pining for my Foster's Donuts! Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
quote: About Starbucks (note the lack of apostrophe!!), though...the Atlanta airport doesn't hold a candle to downtown Seattle. I went to a conference there in November. Our hotel was three blocks from the conference hotel. In between our hotel and the conference hotel, there were seven (!!) full Starbucks shops, and there was a mini-cart inside the conference hotel, as well.
What amazed me when I moved here is that all these Starbucks are so close together, with a Tully's, a Seattle's Best and three indie carts in between, and they all do well. In other states Starbucks has been accused of driving indie owners out of business, but I never really see that happening here.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
romany, the real problem with this is that those of us who are addicted to much their much too expensive drinks (I don't drink coffee, but I LOVE chai tea) are consigned to hell when we leave the area. We actually have to search to sustain our addiction.
I actually had to drive over five miles to get my chai tea while I was working a couple of months in Buffalo last year. You can't spit but hit a Tim Hortons (where they can't even spell chai), but the only espresso style place they have at all is Starbucks. Only ONE Starbucks, that I could find. It was very distressing for someone who is accustommed to having five to ten such places all within easy crawling distance of each other.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
I remember my week in Central PA... the closest Starbucks was 30 miles away, I had to live on French press for a week. You can guess the first place I went when we stopped over at the Cincinatti airport. For some reason, baristas in that and the Chicago airport had never heard of extra shots in a Frappucino.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
I'm with Steev. Donuts are the product of Marketing Natural Selection, in which the ability to addict people exists in a fine balance with how quickly you kill your users.
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I remember my week in Central PA... the closest Starbucks was 30 miles away, I had to live on French press for a week. You can guess the first place I went when we stopped over at the Cincinatti airport. For some reason, baristas in that and the Chicago airport had never heard of extra shots in a Frappucino.