http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Kripsy Kreme en Mon, 18 May 2026 04:12:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-292862 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:17:28 +0000 crowriver 292862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh I dunno about that...</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghguide.com/files/images/20100602_Edinburgh_0807.600x450.JPG"><img src="https://www.edinburghguide.com/files/images/20100602_Edinburgh_0807.600x450.JPG"></a></p> <p><a href="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p02528s3.jpg"><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p02528s3.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-292860 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:12:31 +0000 dougal 292860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You'd be hard-pressed to find any other picture of 11 people taking up more space. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-292858 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:03:26 +0000 crowriver 292858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You'd be hard pressed to find a more apt illustration of the power of marketing to influence people's behaviour. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-292851 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:42:43 +0000 Arellcat 292851@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So good it's worth showing again. Five years ago:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/dULx9n"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8091/8473428705_beccb618e2.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/dULx9n">The dash for doughnuts</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-292849 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:27:02 +0000 chdot 292849@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/news/we-havent-slept-since-the-opening-residents-anger-over-noise-and-horns-from-24hour-krispy-kreme-37376044.html" rel="nofollow">https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/news/we-havent-slept-since-the-opening-residents-anger-over-noise-and-horns-from-24hour-krispy-kreme-37376044.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-248718 Thu, 04 May 2017 13:15:50 +0000 chdot 248718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/krispy-kreme-to-open-new-edinburgh-store-1-4436919" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/krispy-kreme-to-open-new-edinburgh-store-1-4436919</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171924 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:13:31 +0000 cb 171924@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"They don't taste of much, do they?"</p> <p>Get two and stick some <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30000934">burgers, bacon and cheese</a> in the middle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171917 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:55:08 +0000 fimm 171917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All is not lost - they are obviously so <strike>desparate to flog their overpriced junk food</strike> keen to publicise the opening of the new store in Livingston that they are driving around local offices handing out free boxes of the things. So I now have my free doughnut.</p> <p>They don't taste of much, do they? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171825 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:34:44 +0000 gembo 171825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was at a party recently and the host hired The Big Blue which is a big blue Citroen van. With a pizza oven inside. They make fantastic pizzas. I had a lot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171755 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:39:18 +0000 kaputnik 171755@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Man in my office brought in a "breakfast pizza" from serial driving and parking infractionators "La Favorita" the other week. They were handing them out at Haymarket to promote a new Sunday morning "pizza and paper" delivery service.</p> <p>Needless to day, cold bacon, sausage, egg and brown sauce on a tough pizza is not going to do it for me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171754 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:33:20 +0000 DaveC 171754@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!! You mean some people got a little upset that they had not got free doughnuts and wanted others who had, to give theirs away? This Climate change thing is definitely not as important as this issue!!</p> <p>Jeese louise! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171746 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:00:42 +0000 LaidBack 171746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Could KK do a giveaway to people cycling on George St to help establish it I wonder.<br /> No bike? No doughnut. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171735 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:19:25 +0000 fimm 171735@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>:-(<br /> I missed it (the free food, not the fight...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-171732 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:03:39 +0000 chdot 171732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>A BUNFIGHT broke out when commuters at Livingston North station missed out on a Krispy Kreme giveaway.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/free-krispy-kreme-starts-fight-in-livingston-1-3600785" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/free-krispy-kreme-starts-fight-in-livingston-1-3600785</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=6#post-166401 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:47:13 +0000 gembo 166401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As long as it is in the Mall then the folk of Livy will oblige </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-166378 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:14:06 +0000 chdot 166378@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/krispy-kreme-to-open-new-livingston-store-1-3553284" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/krispy-kreme-to-open-new-livingston-store-1-3553284</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144331 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:46:12 +0000 cycletrain 144331@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Isn't drive through fast food just the best. I mean, they save you burning calories walking from your car seat, to the counter, and back again.</p> <p>Pure genius! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144299 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:34:54 +0000 Pocopiglet 144299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't get my head around the folk who go to the drive through, buy the junk and then sit in the car in the car park (yards away from a bin), eat the junk and then drop the rubbish out the window! I see it all the time when I drive PAST a local McDonalds. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144284 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:57:16 +0000 chrisfl 144284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's the broomhouse verges and the underpass by the station that are particularly grim. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144229 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:26:01 +0000 Nelly 144229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The broomhouse path verges are a disgrace. Suspect the trams contractors think "it will be councils job shortly"</p> <p>I just wonder at the people who drop this stuff.</p> <p>Its not like you are ever more than 100 yards from a bin ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144226 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:11:04 +0000 chdot 144226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"littering a 2 mile radius"</p> <p>Any 'hotspots'? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144225 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 22:31:56 +0000 chrisfl 144225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What is astounding is the amount of KFC and Krispy Kreme packaging now littering a 2 mile radius. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144211 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:17:57 +0000 gembo 144211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes he is also having to pay bedroom tax for a second bedroom extension as he has grown too big for his flat </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-144183 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:38:20 +0000 cb 144183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One year on:</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/life-style/krispy-kreme-marks-1-2m-edinburgh-customers-a-year-1-3311832">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/life-style/krispy-kreme-marks-1-2m-edinburgh-customers-a-year-1-3311832</a></p> <p>One year ago the first customer won a year's free supply of donuts. These will be difficult times for him. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-124837 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:26:25 +0000 sallyhinch 124837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have fond memories of Dunkin Donuts from the days when it was the only place in Pueblo Colorado where you could buy a coffee that wasn't just brown coloured hot water. The donuts were a bonus. But I do like all doughnuts - Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts, proper deep fried jam ones, anything - it's lucky I cycle. Must try Tim Horton's now </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-124816 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:09:36 +0000 rosscbrown 124816@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tim Hortons. Amazing. Whenever the girlfriend flies over I have her smuggle some Timbits over and whatever I fancy from the main menu. And Smootims are pretty special too. And it is all so cheap! &lt;3 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-124804 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:54:25 +0000 crowriver 124804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Waiter! A plate of your finest glazed donuts, and a cheeky wee glass of Chablis." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-124788 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:54:17 +0000 gembo 124788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Restaurants? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-124781 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:28:17 +0000 SRD 124781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>slightly better, but not Tim Hortons! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9496&page=5#post-124773 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:49:04 +0000 Arellcat 124773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Possibly</em> not the go-to news source, but this just gets better and better.</p> <p>"<br /> Dunkin' Donuts is to make a second attempt to crack the UK market - 20 years after shutting down its business in the country.</p> <p>The American firm - with a British boss at the helm - has signed franchise agreements to open 50 restaurants in London over the next five years, creating 500 jobs. Nigel Travis said he was in "advanced talks" with other partners to open a further 150 around the rest of the country.<br /> "</p> <p><a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/dunkin-donuts-back-uk-20-120441410.html" rel="nofollow">http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/dunkin-donuts-back-uk-20-120441410.html</a></p> <p>I'm sure the Krispy Krack Edinburghers can't wait. </p>