Everyone gets so mad at me when I say "NYC is basically in New England."
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My husband is the same way and it's endlessly odd to me. He gets offended when I get it wrong. But growing up in the midwest we thought Philly, DC, Boston all of were "new england"
My husband just saw that I typed this and let out the strangest little cry of pure anguish and ran out of the room... uh... hold on. Gotta check on him.
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Everyone gets so mad at me when I say "NYC is basically in New England."
but then these same people walk around. talking about "fog lights on the DEP boat" and "a big nor'easter coming in"Like this is a fishing village with rocky soil. (Which it kinda is)
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@mattdm @futurebird Oh, you had to get me started, didn’t you? Once upon a time, Dunkin’ Donuts was excellent. Now it is just another huge corporate chain with donuts so crappy that they dropped them out of the name. Every store used to bake donuts fresh every morning and throughout the day. Now they come in on tractor trailer trucks from central manufacturing facilities (I refuse to call them bakeries).
As for the coffee, it is meh. Good for American coffee, but crap compared to real coffee. -
@mattdm @futurebird Oh, you had to get me started, didn’t you? Once upon a time, Dunkin’ Donuts was excellent. Now it is just another huge corporate chain with donuts so crappy that they dropped them out of the name. Every store used to bake donuts fresh every morning and throughout the day. Now they come in on tractor trailer trucks from central manufacturing facilities (I refuse to call them bakeries).
As for the coffee, it is meh. Good for American coffee, but crap compared to real coffee.Yeah, I'm old enough to remember that too. A tragic fall. Yet, still iconic!
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Yeah, I'm old enough to remember that too. A tragic fall. Yet, still iconic!
@mattdm @bhawthorne @futurebird Their crullers were fantastic. You could see the end coming when they dropped them from the menu because they were harder to make.
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My husband is the same way and it's endlessly odd to me. He gets offended when I get it wrong. But growing up in the midwest we thought Philly, DC, Boston all of were "new england"
@futurebird @apLundell @llewelly Hah - I grew up in Ohio and can remember a visit to some family friends in Massachusetts who asked my parents "How are things out west?" - that blew my pre-teen mind because "out west" was always Kansas to California for me. I discovered relativity...
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@mattdm @bhawthorne @futurebird Their crullers were fantastic. You could see the end coming when they dropped them from the menu because they were harder to make.
@sbourne @mattdm @futurebird They certainly were. Cinnamon cruller was my normal if I was getting coffee. If it was just donuts, I would get a jelly donut and a Boston cream.
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@sbourne @mattdm @futurebird They certainly were. Cinnamon cruller was my normal if I was getting coffee. If it was just donuts, I would get a jelly donut and a Boston cream.
Krispy Kream is still good. IDK why anyone would go to Dunkin Corn Syrup Bricks when you could have a donut that's as insubstantial as ether that tastes like it was made for the angles.
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@sbourne @mattdm @futurebird They certainly were. Cinnamon cruller was my normal if I was getting coffee. If it was just donuts, I would get a jelly donut and a Boston cream.
As for "What is New England?"
If you know what a Nor'ester is and eat chowder (either kind I don't care) then you are in "New England"
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Krispy Kream is still good. IDK why anyone would go to Dunkin Corn Syrup Bricks when you could have a donut that's as insubstantial as ether that tastes like it was made for the angles.
Frankly the Krispy Kream technology is dangerous IMO. Because no matter how totally stuffed a person is they could still eat a Krispy Kream. And that shouldn't be possible. There is some violation of the laws of space time going on there.
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Krispy Kream is still good. IDK why anyone would go to Dunkin Corn Syrup Bricks when you could have a donut that's as insubstantial as ether that tastes like it was made for the angles.
@futurebird @sbourne @mattdm I consider Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be lovely but much too fluffy and sweet for my taste. They taste are more like dessert pastries than doughnuts to me. Now that DDs are terrible, my favorites are when I fry up a batch of cider doughnuts at home myself, or pick them up fresh from one of the local farms that make them in the fall.
So, question for KK lovers: Do you eat them mostly as breakfast cakes or as after-dinner desserts?
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@futurebird @sbourne @mattdm I consider Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be lovely but much too fluffy and sweet for my taste. They taste are more like dessert pastries than doughnuts to me. Now that DDs are terrible, my favorites are when I fry up a batch of cider doughnuts at home myself, or pick them up fresh from one of the local farms that make them in the fall.
So, question for KK lovers: Do you eat them mostly as breakfast cakes or as after-dinner desserts?
It's not the kind of thing you plan to eat? You bring them to a morning meeting if you called the meeting to apologize for making everyone get up. You need to pick them up on the way over so they are still warm.
So you have one if someone brings a box and it's fresh.
It's its own category of food.
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It's not the kind of thing you plan to eat? You bring them to a morning meeting if you called the meeting to apologize for making everyone get up. You need to pick them up on the way over so they are still warm.
So you have one if someone brings a box and it's fresh.
It's its own category of food.
@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm
gosh! I know someone who knows the exact times when their local Krispy Kreme makes fresh batches and when I used to go and stay at their place as a teenager they would take me and we'd have them fresh off the belt and it was just the best.
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm
gosh! I know someone who knows the exact times when their local Krispy Kreme makes fresh batches and when I used to go and stay at their place as a teenager they would take me and we'd have them fresh off the belt and it was just the best.
@fritzoids @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm
When I've been the "cause" of an early meeting (or a Saturday meeting) I look into such things. There is a 7/11 that gets them right from the distributer 3 times a day and these are good enough for a meeting apology box. But only if the truck just left.
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@futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm
gosh! I know someone who knows the exact times when their local Krispy Kreme makes fresh batches and when I used to go and stay at their place as a teenager they would take me and we'd have them fresh off the belt and it was just the best.
@fritzoids @futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm I had a colleague who traveled quitea bit from Switzerland to the US for his job search, and when he was transiting through DC on the way back to Switzerland, he’d buy Krispy Kreme for the office at the airport. According to him, the flight plus train trip was just under the limit for them to be fresh enough.
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@fritzoids @futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne @mattdm I had a colleague who traveled quitea bit from Switzerland to the US for his job search, and when he was transiting through DC on the way back to Switzerland, he’d buy Krispy Kreme for the office at the airport. According to him, the flight plus train trip was just under the limit for them to be fresh enough.
@oscherler @fritzoids @futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne
Krispy Kreme tried to invade, but couldn't get a foothold.
Also they are really only good for, like, five minutes off the belt.
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@oscherler @fritzoids @futurebird @bhawthorne @sbourne
Krispy Kreme tried to invade, but couldn't get a foothold.
Also they are really only good for, like, five minutes off the belt.
@mattdm @oscherler @fritzoids @bhawthorne @sbourne
They don't really work without the obsessive cultural traditions around "getting them at the right time" and showing up with your scarf nicely tied on a cold day with the box just ever so faintly warm to the touch. Unless you have a whole city of people excited about doing that it's not gonna work.
