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Two drinks in three hours, and my wife also said the same thing and she didn't drink. I also had coffee. They were nothing great and they were hot and fresh. Good donuts but not great, and definitely not worth the calories.
It's ok, your taste buds are accustomed to years of a nastier doughnut and there's not fixin' that.. j/k, it's a preference but you're obviously conditioned for something other than KK...and vice versa from people who are KK fans.
By the way, I grew up near Wilmington and we'd fish all night on the pier in Carolina Beach, Wrightsville, etc then hit KK...Brits, are good and a specialty for locals, but as far as glazed doughnut chain, it's KK. And in my opinion, a hot KK is still better than Brits.
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I know Shipley's.....absolutely nothing compares to KK hots...not even close. Not Dunkin, not Shipley's, not Ducks, etc. I used to travel a lot and people would try to convince me otherwise about certain regional doughnuts. Nah, KK hots are in a class of their own.
Sorry, gotta disagree. KK tastes like chemicals to me.
Two drinks in three hours, and my wife also said the same thing and she didn't drink. I also had coffee. They were nothing great and they were hot and fresh. Good donuts but not great, and definitely not worth the calories.
Well, sorry they didn't work out. I'm a little different, but I don't like KK donuts hot off the line. I actually like them after they cool down a little. When I go to the Raleigh location I ask for one or two from the back side of the line.
I have no idea what's in Britts but I have watched the dough being made and it seemed very simple. No weird taste at all. I rarely eat sugar so if i'm going to it needs to be worth it. KK is not worth it for me at all.
I have no idea what's in Britts but I have watched the dough being made and it seemed very simple. No weird taste at all. I rarely eat sugar so if i'm going to it needs to be worth it. KK is not worth it for me at all.
I have no idea what's in Britts but I have watched the dough being made and it seemed very simple. No weird taste at all. I rarely eat sugar so if i'm going to it needs to be worth it. KK is not worth it for me at all.
Sorry. You have had a Britt's glazed donut and liked it. I like Britt's as well, but not better than Krispy Kreme.
I have no idea what's in Britts but I have watched the dough being made and it seemed very simple. No weird taste at all. I rarely eat sugar so if i'm going to it needs to be worth it. KK is not worth it for me at all.
Lol at listing the ingredients....it isn't that serious, you just don't dig it. Anyway, KK recipe is actually a yeast-raised recipe from a New Orleans chef. Not worth the argument, anyone who can handle sugar and a fan of glazed doughnuts usually give it high marks. Of course there will be people who don't care for it, much like any other highly acclaimed food or product. It certainly isn't healthy, anything that good usually isn't.
Sorry. You have had a Britt's glazed donut and liked it. I like Britt's as well, but not better than Krispy Kreme.
The way I conceptualize a donut is having a very cake-like donut on one end. Dunkin Donuts falls closer to this end. On the other end is a donut that is similar to cotton candy, where sugar simply melts in one's mouth. I thought KK was close to this end of the spectrum, until I tasted Britt's. They do tend to have a lot of air with a very, very sugary outer coat that quickly dissolves on oral contact. That's not really good or bad, but a trait of donuts on that end of the spectrum.
Since this thread is about a "local" icon, I could see the point of this thread more if it were discussing Krispy Kreme's South Stratford Road location in Winston-Salem (the original location) being sold to a Starbucks, Chipotle, or mattress store.
And maybe it's just me, but I noticed a change once KK's donuts started getting recognition outside of NC in the 1990's and internationally in 2000, and went public at the turn of the 21st Century as well. They weren't quite as consistently good as they once were. Were they letting the fame make them a bit complacent and being more concerned about making the current quarter look good to equity shareholders than making sure the ever expanding inventory of boxes on rural grocery/convenience store shelves miles from a KK donut shop was still fresh when it got to the consumer? I don't know. They're still pretty darn good, but just not quite what they were before donut imperialism made them cast their net much further and wider.
The other key with KKD is you can take a dozen donuts from there when they are hot and compress them into about 12 gold ball sized donut holes and then proceed to eat them all in one sitting as they are bite size then. There is not a more efficient way to ingest 2400 calories at once. ��
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. j/k, it's a preference but you're obviously conditioned for something other than KK...and vice versa from people who are KK fans.
