Dunkin' Donuts wishes to remind you that they still make the donuts
By adamg - Wed, 03/18/2009 - 11:05am.
Dunkin' Donuts is about to unleash a $10-million marketing campaign based on the fact that you can actually buy donuts at Dunkin' Donuts outlets.
Donut curse? Both of the stars of this commercial are now dead. Coincidence?
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time to make the donuts
The question is "Where?"
I can't think of one DD that actually makes donuts on the premises
Power Rings
Dunkin' Donuts has a large facility on Old Colony Av. in South Boston. They supply a lot of locations in the area.
Their doughnuts are not as good as they were in years past. Notably smaller, too.
DD glazed...
Before I became addicted to coffee (only 14 years ago -- I was a Pepsi-drinking holdout), I actually thought Dunkin' was truly about the donuts! And I liked them!
In fact, I still can crave their glazed donuts, but heated up on a frying pan so the sugar gets slightly browned and crunchy and the inside is soft as butter. Even 1-2 day old donuts taste awesome that way.
Add to that a glass of cold milk or a nice hot cup of coffee.....
So would that make them ...
Refried donuts?
A couple years ago, the kidlet and I often had lunch on Saturday (while mom was at violin lessons) at Panera Bread in Dedham, after which we'd cross Rte. 1 and hope they were making donuts at the (now empty and forlorn) Krispy Kreme. She could stand there all day, I think, watching those donuts getting made.
Adam, I prefer the term...
"heated" donuts. Sounds, uh, healthier.
Even though at first I enjoyed Krispy Kremes hot off the assembly line, I found them so excessively sweet that I never developed a thing for them. And I thought their coffee was just godawful. Of course, now I don't even know where to find a Krispy Kreme...
Closest KK
Sadly, I think the closest Krispy Kreme is now only the one in Mohegan Sun Casino. The Hot Light is no longer on in MA.
Dunkin' Donuts: To each their own, but
to me, they've always had this sort of stale taste to them, like cardboard.
Indie, it's the ambience
There's a no-nonsense quality to Dunkin' that I like: An affordable cup of coffee that tastes good enough and does the trick in terms of caffeination properties; okay donuts that I try not to eat too much (though I just had an old fashioned with my coffee this a.m.).
Well....
The double-chocolate (Chocolate donuts with chocolate glaze) have a nice flavor.
I once tried one of their culottas, though,
and found that they had a very, very chemical-like taste to them. Yuck!
The one thing I've found about Dunkin' Donuts, though, is that their donuts really don't seem fresh.
Coolatta
At least back when I used to drink coffee, the Dunkin Donuts Coolattas had two problems: (1) an off taste (hints of the machine-cleaning solution, from the one time I got a cup of that), and (2) flavorless leftover ice.
Au Bon Pain, on the other hand, nailed the Frozen Mocha Blast.
Dunkin Dont
I used to like them, but now I can't stand most of their products.
Despite being baked locally, their donuts are stale and flat and boring - and too sweet, really. If I'm going to blow that many calories on a single item, its got to be goooood. I'm not going to waste them on these.
They used to have okay coffee, now it tastes like ass - burned, chemical infiltrated ass. Do they ever rinse those urns after cleaning them with cleaning solutions? Ever? And why the styrafoam cups still - do they think styrene tastes good? Bleh.
Not only that, the coffee is usually cheaper at Starbucks. Better yet, the coffee is usually cheaper AND better at any number of little independent places that also sell nice yummies.
And, yes, I also hate hate hate pink and orange ubiquity. Urban planning anyone? Maybe the horrid overwhelming monoculture of monotononously mediocre CVS and DD downtown is just a sign of how dead Boston is getting. Like urban crabgrass in a vacant concrete lot.
Not only that, the coffee is
fantastic rant, really. i agree about the coffee and the metaphors are just fantastic.
I'm not a coffee-drinker, but
This:
is the point that I've been trying to drive home about the donuts at Dunkin' Donuts. However, the donuts that I've eaten at Dunkin' Donuts have no taste, really....they're like cardboard.