Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks?

Dude, it's Krispie Kreme all the way... you just can't beat it! Of course, i'm voting on the quality of the food available, as i don't drink coffee or tea :-p

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ Nov 16 2006, 09:02 AM) [snapback]350075[/snapback]</div>

I do like the Krispies better for donuts; however, their coffee is not good. Dunkin' Donuts coffee is amazing!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Nov 16 2006, 09:00 AM) [snapback]350073[/snapback]</div>

I recently bought the Braun Tassimo home "brewing" system. You can purchase various varieties of beverages from espresso to latte to hot chocolate to tea from an ever expanding list of companies including Gevalia, Maxwell house, Suchards, etc. It is a pod system and the coffee etc is excellent. So instead of choosing from 5 different Starbucks and 4 differenct Dunkin Donuts between the hospital and my office (12 blocks) I now self brew and carry - and enjoy it enough I might even buy one for my office. Totally "messless".

 

I'm mostly with eagle on this one. Krispy Kreme's got the best donuts, hands down. But I don't drink coffee, and I prefer to make my own tea. If I'm at home, it's done the old fashioned way. We've got a tea kettle to boil the water, and I take it from there. At work, just the hot water from the water cooler, but otherwise the same.

 

Krispy Kreme is a 10, the best on the poll is at best a 5.

Sorry, but when the runaway only choice isn't on the poll it's kind of a bummer, hehe.

 

Dunkin' Donuts for a treat.
Starbucks when I'm can't wake up.
Krispy Kreams hit me the wrong way.
I drink tea in binges every other year or so.

 

KK preempted the "other" category, so I voted for Dunkin' Donuts, my coffee vendor of choice when traveling. My usual commute never gets me out of the house (gotta love networking) but even when I am heading out to a client first thing in the morning, I need my coffee to get going in the AM and there is no way I'm going to wait until I'm already on the road for my morning dose of caffeine. So my real vote is for the Black & Decker "cup at a time" drip coffee maker on the kitchen counter , where I can brew whatever ground up debris is in the can, or, later in the day, grind and brew some good Zabar's beans when I'm awake enough to appreciate the difference...

Vince

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ Nov 16 2006, 09:26 AM) [snapback]350085[/snapback]</div>

Very descriptive.

I don't drink coffee nearly as much as I used to. But when I do drink coffee, I'll go to the local coffee shop in my town. For me, knowing the owner makes the coffee tastes a little better. Plus they've got awesome lemon squares & cinnamon croissant rolls.

Starbucks coffee always tasted to me like it's been left on the burner too long. These days I'll go with a decaf green tea.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Nov 16 2006, 09:12 AM) [snapback]350078[/snapback]</div>

Those are really nice machines. If I were still the coffee-hound I used to be, I'd definitely look into one of these.

 

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I voted 'other' because there's a convenience store chain where I live called WaWa, and I like their coffee best, altho the 'Quick Chek' chain has started using the same brand. I really like their Chocolate Macaedmia Nut coffee, and their 'plain coffee' is pretty good.

I DO like the plain coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, but hate their flavored coffees. They've started up a line of espressos and cappucinos lately that are also good - for a while they did something they CALLED capuccino that came from a powdery mix with lots of sugar.

7-11 makes acceptable coffee, flavored and regular.

I agree with Proco that Starbucks coffee always tastes burnt not to mention that it's very costly. But Squid is right about the 'shopping experience' - I'd rather sit and sip coffee in a Starbucks than a Dunkin' Donuts.

 

Neither. I brew my own in my office using a Braun Drip Coffee maker and I grind my own columbian beans that I get from a grocery store that roasts the beans themselves. You can watch them roast the beans on a roaster they have in the store and the smell is amazing. Coffee has to be fresh. I recommend grinding your own beans and finding a coffee roaster that sells fresh beans. Sometimes I try Ethiopian or Kenyan, but Kenyan is very acidic. I will go to Starbucks, but only if I'm away from home and need to rest and relax. Their coffee is burned tasting compared to my own. As for donuts, Krispy Creme are wonderful, but I didn't just lose 10 pounds by eating donuts. Truth is, there are some things you just can't put in your mouth without asking for obesity, and donuts are on that list. I've learned to enjoy a banana or apple as much as a donut. (Homer Simpson, are you listening?)

 

I honestly cannot remember the last time I ate a doughnut. I used to pop 'TimBits' like the candy they are, but that was back when I got so much exercise it really didn't matter how many calories I snarfed. I usually brew my own coffee, but it's Tim Horton's if I buy it. (Did you know the letters of Tim Horton's can be rearranged to say Stim North?) Wait...

Squid?! Is that really you? Drinking tea? Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Only Earl Grey, right, not any of that 'fag' tea like liquorice spice? I know, you're really just trying to find out how many 'real men' are left, right?

Why aren't you telling us something like how many insect parts per million are permitted in tea bags? :blink:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 16 2006, 11:50 AM) [snapback]350165[/snapback]</div>

Timbits! How that takes me back to my days in Canada. True North strong and free, Molson Canadian, Labatt's Blue! I used to live in London, Ontario. I also lived in Victoria, BC.

I just won't eat donuts now, or potato chips or any of that high calorie "food". It takes too much exercise to burn it off.

Where are you? BC?

 

As for coffee, it is all mood dependent for me between Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks, and homebrew.
-Dunkin Donuts is more accessible on the road when I am travelling out of the metro Atlanta Area.
-Starbucks when I have the time to go inside and relax. Homebrew when I am feeling poor.
-Homebrew also leads to overindulgence, because I drink the whole pot.

I don't buy anything to eat at any of the places, because it is not worth it in the long run.

 

For you folks raving about Krispy Kreme - you've obviously never been to Dunkin Donuts. If donuts were MPG, Dunkin Donuts would be a Prius and Krispy Kreme would be a Hummer H2.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Nov 16 2006, 04:32 PM) [snapback]350301[/snapback]</div>

Sorry, I have to disagree with you BIG TIME on this one. If I wanted a piece of white bread dipped in sugar water (aka, a glazed Dunkin' Donut), I could make that at home.

However, a glazed Krispy warm and fresh off the conveyor that literally melts in your mouth...that's worth getting up early for!

I do dig DD's crullers, though. Those are tasty! And their coffee is truly nectar of the Gods.

Funny, there was a news report on recently that was totally mirroring this back and forth. It was just about the donuts, though, and how rabid folks are about their preferred vendor.

 

I agree that Dunkin Donuts have no taste whatsoever, and that makes Krispy Kremes preferable. But the local bakery where I grew up made incredibly good glazed and raised donuts (as well as other pastries). I first tasted a Dunkin Donut in 1966 when I went away to college and couldn't believe they had no taste at all.

Krispy Kremes aren't really all that good, either, but at least they have SOME taste in the dough and they are certainly more crispy than a DD.

But I've had donuts that were even worse than Dunkin Donuts - totally bland dough and waxy-tasting toppings.

The closest thing I've had to a 'good doughnut' since 1966 were the beignets at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans.

 

OK, if a Krispy Kreme is FRESHLY MADE (ie, less than five minutes old), it is Teh Yum.

However, an old Dunkin Donuts donut beats an old Kripy Kreme hands down. In case you never had Krispy Kreme, here is the recipe of how to make them:

Take a bunch of sugar
Add sugar
Mix generously with more sugar
Top with sugar

Voila! You have made a Krispy Kreme donut!