@mike808 old trigger. I had to have someone explain it to me a while back and I already forgot what it was referencing exactly. Some tik tok about ants.
Did you know that Dunkin dropped the Donuts from their name?
I’m pretty simple when it comes to donuts. Glazed. French crullers. Right now the pumpkin donut they have is really great. It’s a cake donut with actual pumpkin flavoring and not just pumpkin spice flavor.
@RiotDemon@Targaryen I read they dropped the “Donuts” to shift the emphasis to coffee, which has had such a surge in popularity in recent years. It sort of renders the name nonsensical, IMO, as “dunkin” obviously refers to the action of dunking your donuts in coffee or milk.
I find it a little myopic that the CEO said in only a few years, younger people won’t even realize that it ever had “Donuts” in the name. Kentucky Fried Chicken and Dairy Queen said the same thing decades ago. Thirty years after changing its name to KFC, people still refer to it as “Kentucky Fried Chicken”. Dairy Queen changed its name to DQ in 2001 and the full name is probably even more prevalent in conversation.
KFC, while keeping the new name and always referring to that name when spoken, has reverted to slipping text of the old complete name in most of its ads
@DrWorm@RiotDemon It makes sense. Donuts are basically unhealthy even though they’re delicious so they shifted the name to appeal to a younger health minded crowd. I’m glad they’re still sticking with donuts for a while longer since I enjoy their donuts, but the added coffee choices is nice.
@Targaryen I was being a bit facetious, as Sweetwaters is a local chain out of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Though they are often rated as one of the best in the nation and they are starting to franchise to other places as SW Donuts.
As for Oberon Day, it is the day that Bell’s Brewing Company, another Kalamazoo institution, releases their Oberon beer for the year. It’s a big event in Michigan, and some other states wher Oberon is available.
@banksnld Nice. I’m sure we’ll see Sweetwater eventually here in Texas, we have a few regional brands that show up. I mean we have a Filipino fast food joint here even so why not?
I’ll have to look around for that beer. They might have it one day at the bigger chains that market beers from other states.
@banksnld@Targaryen it is a Good Beer, I buy it at least once a year.
just to forewarn you though, it is an unfiltered wheat beer. so there’s “stuff” in the bottle… it won’t kill ya. might even be good for ya… and if you’re even a little Gluten sensitive…best to stay Clear.
and no, I’m not a beer snob… I’m drinking a Fuller’s London Pride while typing this, but 2 of may favorites are Cheap as Chips.
Coors banquet
Lone Star
not as cheap, and more often purchased by me:
Shiner, Bock or any of their seasonals. I have yet to have a bad beer from Shiner.
@Targaryen I checked a few cities, and saw it available around Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, at the very least. Though not around my old stomping grounds of San Angelo. (I’m shocked, I tell you - shocked!)
Here’s Bell’s finder app, if you want to search around you:
Generally Dunkin’s donuts suck. I have a Krispy Kreme 5 minutes from me and some of the best bakery donuts within a reasonable drive. On that note, I’d absolutely try this.
@cinoclav I still haven’t been to an actual Krispy Kreme. There’s one not far from my brother so I’m making a plan to stop there the next time I’m in his neighborhood.
@cinoclav I have found Dunkin donuts tend to vary based on the distribution center. They aren’t very good where I live now. When I lived in the Baltimore-Washington corridor they were surprisingly good.
@RiotDemon@sammydog01 The classic yeast donuts melt in your mouth. Personally, I wouldn’t say the rest suck ass at all, especially when fresh. I like their glazed cream filled. Of course when it comes to cream filled, it’s kind of difficult to beat these from McMillan’s in Haddon Twsp, NJ. I indulge occasionally.
@Limewater I think once they went to a central distribution they went downhill pretty fast. I guess if you’re close to a main bakery and they’re fresh they’re somewhat acceptable. I remember when they were all made fresh in store. So much better!
I think once they went to a central distribution they went downhill pretty fast.
No wonder. I thought they pretty much tasted stale unless you got them at 6am lately. That makes sense because central distribution adds time. So now a 10am donut might be more like a 2pm donut in terms of freshness.
@cinoclav I don’t really have a basis of comparison. I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever gotten doughnuts from Dunkin since they went to the distribution center model and started popping up on every corner.
Ok, had I not been working on a Month of LEGO, I would have likely done a month of donuts. My two favorite passions:
I’ve had donuts all over the world and am always on the lookout for the next donut shop to visit. However as we are talking about donuts today, I would like to highlight the Butler County Ohio Donut trail:
It’s basically a series of mom and pop (no chain crap here) donut shops scattered across the county. The genius is that if you stop at one to pick up a passport, you can go to each one, get your passport stamped, then turn in a completed card for a t-shirt.
It’s a blast and the donut shops are all WAY better than DD. In fact, there are several DDs that are passed across the county on the way to visiting all of the shops - including one right across the street from Milton’s.
All around good eatin’.
But to answer your q - I am slightly intrigued by the ghost pepper donut. Not sure it is enough to go get it. I wasn’t a huge fan of Tabasco Chocolate. There are just some things that don’t go together. Sorry.
@kykazaa The original consumers of chocolate often added chilis for flavoring. And it’s making a comeback; I can think of several chocolate companies that make a mexican chocolate that contains chilis.
@kykazaa If you are ever in Europe Holland has the best bakeries. Germany’s ones are too heavy (in my opinion) as are the ones in England and Scotland. Belgium’s stuff is nearly as good as Holland (well and of course there are differences between bakers but the Netherlands bakery things tend to be light and not dense, they aren’t quite was overly sweet as in other countries. I find I like Walmart’s glazed donut far better than Kroger’s for the same reasons.
Hough Bakeries, which went out of business unfortunately had the most wonderful stuff. As a high schooler I walked past it every day. I’d buy something on the way home a couple times a week. Good thing I had babysitting jobs and working in the public library or I wouldn’t have been able to support my habit!. That bakery spoiled me with respect to baked goods.
I think the typical Parisan bakery uses a special kind of brick oven and they also have special flour for these loaves and you can’t get that flour in the US
Legally in France the ingredients must be simply flower salt water yeast that’s it
Water and salt are obviously similar or should be
there might be a slight difference in the types of yeast available in France versus the us but I doubt that’s the big deal
Varietes of flours are grown, blended, and milled and handled specifically for national markets and I think the French have their own just for this
@f00l@ybmuG The flour is key, but so is the Parisian climate (humidity, temps, wind), and more importantly, many boulangeries have their own proprietary strains of yeast, much like the sourdough mothers.
Much like New Orleans French Bread cannot be readily replicated elsewhere, or San Fransisco sourdough, Parisian bakers have perfected their trade, much like the stinky melty cheeses also found there.
I would be game to try this. I’m always a huge sucker to try new or limited edition flavours of snack foods. Unfortunately I’m not consuming anything I didn’t prepare myself right now or I might be inclined to hunt down a Dunkin near me.
My donuts of choice are crullers, old fashoned butter milk, and my fav is definitely the not-really-a-donut apple fritter. Mmmmm. Fritter.
@ruouttaurmind I must agree re: Apple fritters, though we often call them cow plops, given how big some of them are around here…
/image Ridge Donuts apple fritter
But I have to say I still prefer the simple fried cake - no frosting, no sugar, made with lard
/image Schutts fried cakes
For an extreme donut, nothing beats cannoli filled (cheese, not cream)
/image Donuts Delite cannoli
@ruouttaurmind@Targaryen those are good too, though I prefer to combine fried cakes and apple cider. Dunking a still crispy, freshly fried cake into a nice glass of cider is wonderful. I’ll even do hot mulled cider. Though if it’s hot, you have to move quickly!
For several years at an Asian festival on our downtown mall, one booth had these ladies making donut holes in hot oil on the spot, and you could buy them fresh out of the cooker. OMG - they were ambrosial! Not sure how Asian they were but hot sweet fatty food is popular in all cultures, I guess.
@RiotDemon
no, is why i said not a donut
never had a donut to compare to this and i have had really good ones
best one i ever ate was a local place like 35+ years go
imagine a huge huge bar donut, filled with chocolate, chocolate frosted and then dipped in chocolate chips
But if I get near a Dunkin (there are at least two in town, but in areas I’m not at often) I will make it a point to get a ghost pepper donut. I’m always down to try the new weird foods.
@djslack I’m on a road trip and passed 4 or 5 Dunkins yesterday but I was waiting for my favorite one which was also the last one before the highway. It was closed and being renovated. Or demolished, I’m not sure. I head home today so the search will continue.
I tried one of the DD donuts. It’s not bad. @MrMikenIkes’ take on it above is spot on. The one I had was pretty fresh, but it is a cake donut so I imagine its shelf life is pretty limited.
I made it to Dunkin today. They didn’t have the special donut. Or bathrooms. But they did have Ravens donuts. They scored me a bunch of points in fantasy last week. And they’re purple!
For any of you T-Mo subscribers that are tempted to try this but too cheap to pay for it, the T-Mo Tuesday app regularly offers a free $2 gift card/code that would be enough to pay for a couple of these.
(or better yet if you are lucky enough to have a combo DD/Baskin-Robbins store nearby last week they had a $4 free offer)
I don’t have a DD anywhere around here, but I was just thinking that would be terrible if they accidentally mixed it up with just an iced donut.
lol I can only imagine how many people will pull pranks with it…
@dsmith601 I like the way you think. This is exactly what I would have done if we had an office to go to.
Not really a dessert/donut person, but maybe THESE
@tinamarie1974 Not sure I could handle that much sugar. I’d be unstoppable for like 2 hours then crash hard.
chocolate donut with chocolate frosting and peanut sprinkles topping.
Tik tok audio: “Why is it spicy?!”
Hmm. New bot trigger? Spicy!
Somebody should do a Tik Tok of reactions. Like Mediocrebot’s.
@mike808 old trigger. I had to have someone explain it to me a while back and I already forgot what it was referencing exactly. Some tik tok about ants.
I absolutely will not be trying it. I am a very simple donut eater. Chocolate and glazed.
I said it once and I’ll say it again.
Sacrilege.
There’s a Dunkin going in next to the gas station. I need gas. If it’s open I’m buying one. If not, I’m probably still buying one. I’ll let you know.
@sammydog01 Nice. Genuinely curious.
Did you know that Dunkin dropped the Donuts from their name?
I’m pretty simple when it comes to donuts. Glazed. French crullers. Right now the pumpkin donut they have is really great. It’s a cake donut with actual pumpkin flavoring and not just pumpkin spice flavor.
@RiotDemon Didn’t even notice, probably to distance themselves from being “just a donut place.”
@RiotDemon @Targaryen I read they dropped the “Donuts” to shift the emphasis to coffee, which has had such a surge in popularity in recent years. It sort of renders the name nonsensical, IMO, as “dunkin” obviously refers to the action of dunking your donuts in coffee or milk.
I find it a little myopic that the CEO said in only a few years, younger people won’t even realize that it ever had “Donuts” in the name. Kentucky Fried Chicken and Dairy Queen said the same thing decades ago. Thirty years after changing its name to KFC, people still refer to it as “Kentucky Fried Chicken”. Dairy Queen changed its name to DQ in 2001 and the full name is probably even more prevalent in conversation.
KFC, while keeping the new name and always referring to that name when spoken, has reverted to slipping text of the old complete name in most of its ads
@RiotDemon butternut and coconut donuts are my jam, they are of course the ones with the highest calorie counts though
@DrWorm @RiotDemon It makes sense. Donuts are basically unhealthy even though they’re delicious so they shifted the name to appeal to a younger health minded crowd. I’m glad they’re still sticking with donuts for a while longer since I enjoy their donuts, but the added coffee choices is nice.
Why would I go to DD when I can get Sweetwater’s?
https://sweetwatersdonuts.com/donuts
And did I mention that they do a special donut for Oberon Day every year?
@banksnld Sadly, I don’t see those around us anywhere. Also, what is Oberon Day?
@Targaryen I was being a bit facetious, as Sweetwaters is a local chain out of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Though they are often rated as one of the best in the nation and they are starting to franchise to other places as SW Donuts.
https://www.google.com/search?q=keeley+simms&oq=keeley+simms&aqs=chrome..69i57.10674j0j9&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&
As for Oberon Day, it is the day that Bell’s Brewing Company, another Kalamazoo institution, releases their Oberon beer for the year. It’s a big event in Michigan, and some other states wher Oberon is available.
@banksnld Nice. I’m sure we’ll see Sweetwater eventually here in Texas, we have a few regional brands that show up. I mean we have a Filipino fast food joint here even so why not?
I’ll have to look around for that beer. They might have it one day at the bigger chains that market beers from other states.
@Targaryen ooh, a Filipino place. Do they have lumpia? That’s a good friend of mine’s wife’s specialty, she makes them about 20 dozen at a time.
@banksnld @Targaryen it is a Good Beer, I buy it at least once a year.
just to forewarn you though, it is an unfiltered wheat beer. so there’s “stuff” in the bottle… it won’t kill ya. might even be good for ya… and if you’re even a little Gluten sensitive…best to stay Clear.
and no, I’m not a beer snob… I’m drinking a Fuller’s London Pride while typing this, but 2 of may favorites are Cheap as Chips.
Coors banquet
Lone Star
not as cheap, and more often purchased by me:
Shiner, Bock or any of their seasonals. I have yet to have a bad beer from Shiner.
@Targaryen I checked a few cities, and saw it available around Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, at the very least. Though not around my old stomping grounds of San Angelo. (I’m shocked, I tell you - shocked!)
Here’s Bell’s finder app, if you want to search around you:
https://www.bellsbeer.com/beer-finder
@earlyre @Targaryen Honestly, Oberon isn’t my favorite beer from Bell’s - that would be their Two-Hearted Ale.
Generally Dunkin’s donuts suck. I have a Krispy Kreme 5 minutes from me and some of the best bakery donuts within a reasonable drive. On that note, I’d absolutely try this.
@cinoclav I still haven’t been to an actual Krispy Kreme. There’s one not far from my brother so I’m making a plan to stop there the next time I’m in his neighborhood.
@RiotDemon Make sure you go when they’re making fresh glazed ones. The rest suck ass. Plus it’s fun to watch.
@sammydog01 I’ve never had any flavor except their glazed. They sell them at my grocery store and people will bring those in to work sometimes.
@cinoclav I have found Dunkin donuts tend to vary based on the distribution center. They aren’t very good where I live now. When I lived in the Baltimore-Washington corridor they were surprisingly good.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 @cinoclav
KK donuts fresh and hot are something like sugar paradise.
Fortunately I rarely go near a store. I’d prob be going nuts if I was next door to one.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 The classic yeast donuts melt in your mouth. Personally, I wouldn’t say the rest suck ass at all, especially when fresh. I like their glazed cream filled. Of course when it comes to cream filled, it’s kind of difficult to beat these from McMillan’s in Haddon Twsp, NJ. I indulge occasionally.
@Limewater I think once they went to a central distribution they went downhill pretty fast. I guess if you’re close to a main bakery and they’re fresh they’re somewhat acceptable. I remember when they were all made fresh in store. So much better!
@cinoclav @sammydog01 damnit. Those look so tasty… Now I kinda want to make homemade cream puffs.
@cinoclav @Limewater
No wonder. I thought they pretty much tasted stale unless you got them at 6am lately. That makes sense because central distribution adds time. So now a 10am donut might be more like a 2pm donut in terms of freshness.
@RiotDemon That picture really doesn’t do them justice. They also do the cream filled in a sugared dough instead of powdered. Can’t lose either way.
@cinoclav @RiotDemon
Omg thx donut pix!
Want!
@cinoclav I don’t really have a basis of comparison. I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever gotten doughnuts from Dunkin since they went to the distribution center model and started popping up on every corner.
@Limewater You have my deepest apologies. I hope you have a good bakery nearby.
@cinoclav @RiotDemon @sammydog01 Those cream filled things look GOOD! I really like cream filled ones and eclairs.
Anyone live near Bradenton Fl?
Is there still a spudnuts there?
(Haven’t been there in decades)
Do they still have a donut and coffee counter and can you get donuts and cinnamon rolls completely fresh and hot, at least late in the evenings?
Then go
Order a cinnamon roll. They are huge and beyond wonderful, in my memory.
Ok, had I not been working on a Month of LEGO, I would have likely done a month of donuts. My two favorite passions:
I’ve had donuts all over the world and am always on the lookout for the next donut shop to visit. However as we are talking about donuts today, I would like to highlight the Butler County Ohio Donut trail:
It’s basically a series of mom and pop (no chain crap here) donut shops scattered across the county. The genius is that if you stop at one to pick up a passport, you can go to each one, get your passport stamped, then turn in a completed card for a t-shirt.
It’s a blast and the donut shops are all WAY better than DD. In fact, there are several DDs that are passed across the county on the way to visiting all of the shops - including one right across the street from Milton’s.
All around good eatin’.
But to answer your q - I am slightly intrigued by the ghost pepper donut. Not sure it is enough to go get it. I wasn’t a huge fan of Tabasco Chocolate. There are just some things that don’t go together. Sorry.
@kykazaa The original consumers of chocolate often added chilis for flavoring. And it’s making a comeback; I can think of several chocolate companies that make a mexican chocolate that contains chilis.
https://www.icco.org/faq/54-cocoa-origins/133-chocolate-use-in-early-aztec-cultures.html
@kykazaa If you are ever in Europe Holland has the best bakeries. Germany’s ones are too heavy (in my opinion) as are the ones in England and Scotland. Belgium’s stuff is nearly as good as Holland (well and of course there are differences between bakers but the Netherlands bakery things tend to be light and not dense, they aren’t quite was overly sweet as in other countries. I find I like Walmart’s glazed donut far better than Kroger’s for the same reasons.
Hough Bakeries, which went out of business unfortunately had the most wonderful stuff. As a high schooler I walked past it every day. I’d buy something on the way home a couple times a week. Good thing I had babysitting jobs and working in the public library or I wouldn’t have been able to support my habit!. That bakery spoiled me with respect to baked goods.
@Kidsandliz @kykazaa
Croissants in Paris from the local patisserie or boulanger are to die for.
@kykazaa @mike808 Not been to France but heard their bakeries have really, really good things.
@mike808
And the wonderful fresh Parisan baguette.
I’ve never found a place in the US that makes them properly
@f00l @mike808 We were in a couple in Washington DC that might come close, though I suspect ingredient availability may be more the issue than skill.
@mike808 @ybmuG
I think the typical Parisan bakery uses a special kind of brick oven and they also have special flour for these loaves and you can’t get that flour in the US
Legally in France the ingredients must be simply flower salt water yeast that’s it
Water and salt are obviously similar or should be
there might be a slight difference in the types of yeast available in France versus the us but I doubt that’s the big deal
Varietes of flours are grown, blended, and milled and handled specifically for national markets and I think the French have their own just for this
@f00l @mike808 I think that is what I have heard as well - the flour is the key and can’t be duplicated here.
@f00l @ybmuG The flour is key, but so is the Parisian climate (humidity, temps, wind), and more importantly, many boulangeries have their own proprietary strains of yeast, much like the sourdough mothers.
Much like New Orleans French Bread cannot be readily replicated elsewhere, or San Fransisco sourdough, Parisian bakers have perfected their trade, much like the stinky melty cheeses also found there.
I like how this thread is becoming people talking about their favorite local non-DD donut places.
@banksnld For me DD was the local place since it and I both were born in Massachusetts. Only makes sense others have their own favorites.
I would be game to try this. I’m always a huge sucker to try new or limited edition flavours of snack foods. Unfortunately I’m not consuming anything I didn’t prepare myself right now or I might be inclined to hunt down a Dunkin near me.
My donuts of choice are crullers, old fashoned butter milk, and my fav is definitely the not-really-a-donut apple fritter. Mmmmm. Fritter.
@ruouttaurmind I also love apple fritters. Haven’t had a good fresh one in a while. I can get them at grocery stores but it isn’t good usually.
@ruouttaurmind I must agree re: Apple fritters, though we often call them cow plops, given how big some of them are around here…
/image Ridge Donuts apple fritter
But I have to say I still prefer the simple fried cake - no frosting, no sugar, made with lard
/image Schutts fried cakes
For an extreme donut, nothing beats cannoli filled (cheese, not cream)
/image Donuts Delite cannoli
@ruouttaurmind @ybmuG How about Apple Cider Donuts? Those are a good seasonal donut as well.
@ruouttaurmind @Targaryen those are good too, though I prefer to combine fried cakes and apple cider. Dunking a still crispy, freshly fried cake into a nice glass of cider is wonderful. I’ll even do hot mulled cider. Though if it’s hot, you have to move quickly!
For several years at an Asian festival on our downtown mall, one booth had these ladies making donut holes in hot oil on the spot, and you could buy them fresh out of the cooker. OMG - they were ambrosial! Not sure how Asian they were but hot sweet fatty food is popular in all cultures, I guess.
Krispy Kreme is running a deal for buy-a-dozen, get a second dozen for $1 for all of October.
No DDs and no KK’s so no donuts
Better than a donut
bought it from ‘that other place’ and it’s like crack
@Cerridwyn What is that? I want one!
@Cerridwyn what “other place”???
@Cerridwyn Is that…gooeey butter cake? Tell us! Tell Us!
@suhsawn
LOL Riot
da woot from da david
https://mamabevs.com/
and yes, it is salted caramel butter cake
@Cerridwyn oh lol. Thought you meant a different donut place.
@RiotDemon
no, is why i said not a donut
never had a donut to compare to this and i have had really good ones
best one i ever ate was a local place like 35+ years go
imagine a huge huge bar donut, filled with chocolate, chocolate frosted and then dipped in chocolate chips
@Cerridwyn
Can confirm. Gooey butter cake is indeed like crack. Although around here, we also have “crack pie”, also eponymously named.
@mike808
oh dear
what is it?
Southern Maid glazed all the way.
But if I get near a Dunkin (there are at least two in town, but in areas I’m not at often) I will make it a point to get a ghost pepper donut. I’m always down to try the new weird foods.
@djslack I’m on a road trip and passed 4 or 5 Dunkins yesterday but I was waiting for my favorite one which was also the last one before the highway. It was closed and being renovated. Or demolished, I’m not sure. I head home today so the search will continue.
Just tried one and it was pretty good! It was like a strawberry frosted donut with a little extra kick and tingle in my mouth.
I bet these are even better when fresh and not stale from sitting out all day…
Maple Bacon Bar from Voodoo Doughnut
I tried one of the DD donuts. It’s not bad. @MrMikenIkes’ take on it above is spot on. The one I had was pretty fresh, but it is a cake donut so I imagine its shelf life is pretty limited.
I made it to Dunkin today. They didn’t have the special donut. Or bathrooms. But they did have Ravens donuts. They scored me a bunch of points in fantasy last week. And they’re purple!
@sammydog01 what was inside?
@RiotDemon White cream. Mmmm.
Fresh apple cinnamon. Nothing else even comes close. Well grabbing the last chocolate donut in a meeting to pissoff your boss comes close.
I found one. It’s spicy. Really spicy. Too spicy for a donut, I ate the whole thing.
For any of you T-Mo subscribers that are tempted to try this but too cheap to pay for it, the T-Mo Tuesday app regularly offers a free $2 gift card/code that would be enough to pay for a couple of these.
(or better yet if you are lucky enough to have a combo DD/Baskin-Robbins store nearby last week they had a $4 free offer)