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Re: The $.75 Krispy Creme Donut

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From: Kirby
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:26
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In article <9c665c07631a66550197acc5fa794ade@news.teranews.com>,
 Baghdad Bob <Baghdadbob> wrote:

> infoguy123@aol.com (InfoGuy123) wrote in
> news:20031206233425.09719.00000309@mb-m17.aol.com: 
> 
> >   I see Krispy Creme has set up special cases in Stater Brothers
> >   supermarkets 
> > in California for their overhyped, mediocre donuts. 
> > 
> >   You know, the donuts the debut in California of which made some
> >   people wait 
> > in lines stretching around city blocks a couple of years ago. 
> > 
> >   However, it seems increasingly clear that there's absolutely NOTHING
> > especially good about Krispy Creme donuts compared to those baked and
> > sold at run-of-the-mill coffee shops anywhere throughout the USA.
> > 
> >   So how Krispy Creme can charge 75 cents each for their quite
> >   ordinary 
> > products amazes. 
> > 
> >   One supposes that, as more and more Californians come to discover
> >   that 
> > there's absolutely nothing special about the Krispy Kreme product more
> > people will, like me, shake their heads in amazement when they see
> > them offered for sale at such comparatively exhorbitant prices.   
> > "If ye love wealth better than liberty ... servitude better  than ...
> > freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your
> > arms ...  May your chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget
> > that ye were our countrymen." 
> >   - Samuel Adams
> > 
> 
> Better watch out now, all the KK moonies will come out of the woodwork.
> Look, it's sort of like going to Chucky Cheese for pizza. It's kid's 
> stuff. You really want a great pizza, you go to the small mom and pop 
> pizzeria.

Go to a neighborhood bakery and the nuts are fresh in the am. Go mid 
morning and they've sat for a while. The KK's are fresh ALL THE TIME and 
rarely get older than an hour or so...so, I'd guess that KK offers more 
consistancy whereever you go. 

just a guess though.
-- 
Best,
Kirby
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