powercropper:
I am loving reading all these posts about specific foods you love and places you go back to enjoy it.
I had thought I would respond and interact with each post, but there are way too many now. But it is satisfying to see others interacting along the way.
I will caution you to seek out good sources as you try a new food. Like, don’t try grits for the first time at a fast food restaurant. And do not buy your first Krispy Kreme doughnut in a box at a grocery store.
Your best experience will be finding a Krispy Kreme restaurant with its neon “Hot Doughnuts Now” sign lit up.
Most locations should be set up for customers to see the hot doughnuts coming down the assembly line. The employee opens up an flat, empty box and uses tongs to grab hot doughnuts off the line and place them individually Into the box.
This means you can sink your teeth into a hot, fluffy taste of heaven just a couple minutes off the assembly line.
Krispy Kreme vs Dunkin Donuts is mostly a regional thing. Dunkin makes a more dense, cake like donut. Just like pizza, you decide which style you prefer. The only Dunkin Style I like are their donut holes. To me, it is a separate thing from an actual doughnut.
The one Krispy Kreme that opened in my area didn’t make it. Closed after 1 year. It got a lot of publicity and traffic when it first opened but couldn’t sustain it.
We have a Dunkin like every mile here. I much prefer their coffee to Starbucks, so that’s where I go when not near my locally owned coffee place. I rarely buy donuts anywhere - I’m a muffin/scone person.