See also Freshman!Susan's shock at going to something listed on the freshman orientation calendar as a barbecue and being fed hamburgers and hotdogs.

You were raised in Alabama, right? Yikes, that would be a shocker (and rather large disappointment, I imagine).

Guess I'm the outlier. I didn't taste Krispy Kreme until I was an adult and I thought it was the best glazed donut I'd ever had (I mean, still just a glazed donut, not the world-shattering thing some people acted like we were getting when they first came to San Diego [see also Chick-Fil-A, though I do think Sonic was partially worth the hype]). We just got our first Dunkin and I was seriously disappointed by their wares.

Thanks for the bday wishes! I am wearing stuff from Chico's rather than Hot Topic, which means I am an old.

The Krispy Kreme factory (I mean I guess bakery? But large) is not far from me. I don't know if this is still true, but you used to be able to stop in after midnight and get a fresh doughnut and those were the best thing ever! Once they've cooled, I'm very meh on them.

All national chain donuts kinda suck most of the time, but Krispy Kreme plain, served hot, are as close as you can get to good. Nothing Dunkin makes is as good, nor Tim Hortons. And that's pretty much it for full national chains, right? If Tim Hortons even counts.

Not that I'll turn down a donut from anywhere - shove all the fat and sugar in my mouth I don't care - but I like the Krispies. I'll even buy them from a grocery store, and as long as you microwave them for 8 seconds before eating, still quite yum.

[link] Shipley Do-Nuts is my favorite chain donut overall, but they are both regional (Southeast) and smaller.

Oh, and Donuts in Brazil are a nightmare. They barely exist and what does exist is much closer to a big dry cake than a donut. This country fries everything but for some reason can't figure out how to fry dough.

I gotta make some beignets soon.

Now I am remembering my mother making donuts. Ah, I had totally forgotten that we used to do that. As I recall it was pretty easy to do. And hot and fresh.

Shipley's are great, but I have moved too far north to get them. But conveniently, there's a great mom-and-pop place within a couple of blocks that makes great doughnuts.

Not related to donuts, but it is within keeping of the breakfast theme, have any of you followed the story of Jensen Karp, the guy who found what seems to be shrimp tails in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch (CTC) cereal?

Karp is a TV writer, married to Boy Meets World's Danielle Fishel (Topanga). It's all on Twitter. I know some of you avoid it, or find it confusing, but it is quite the odyssey, as well as the Glamour-Don't for social media customer response.

It started here on March 22nd. [link]

He didn't publish it as a thread, so if you're not familiar with navigating Twitter, your best bet is to go to his profile, here [link] , and scroll down until you find the original posting of the above tweet.

If that's too much for you, you can get the highlights from Yahoo!, here. [link] I've saved that on the Wayback Machine, because sometimes Yahoo articles disappear. [link]

Being in the Bay Area I have access to Super Fancy Artisanal Donuts with Rare and Exquisite Fillings piped in.

They are pretty fucking delicious.

Dunkin’ doesn’t make the donuts with the handles any more, do they? Or can I just not get them out here for some reason. The nearest Dunkin to me is something like 12 miles so I don’t go often and could have just missed out, I suppose

The donuts of my childhood were from a non-chain shop about a mile from my house. They were delicious, and my bus stop throughout high school was nearby so that they let us stand around inside on cold mornings made me like them even more. They had warm apple cider, too. Yum.

But a Krispy Kreme that just came down the, shoot, lost the word. Thing that stuff comes down. Argh. Anyway, fresh and hot, those are good. I was somewhat bewildered to learn that they made other varieties of donut than basic glazed, honestly. I think I first had them on a school field trip, which now seems odd. How did that happen? I don’t remember the name of my local donut shop, but I can picture it, and Coffee Call was where the soccer team met before caravanning to away games (for beignets), but Krispy Kreme was somewhere a bus stopped on the way to somewhere else.

But a Krispy Kreme that just came down the, shoot, lost the word

Chute?