" the typo in the threat title "
I hadn't even noticed the typo and it was my typo.
I shall eat a three-day old Greggs doughnut (there happens to be one on my desk) as penance.
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Kripsy Kreme
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Posted 11 years ago #
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I think wearing the aforementioned blue bandana at work and throwing up gang sign to colleagues ought to do.
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Remember Twin Peaks?
Now we're talking ! If only they had opened a stainless steel clad 1950's diner with damn fine cherry pie served by Sherilyn Fenn lookalikes. Now that would be worth queuing for.
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Still queuing tonight when we drove past on way to get my bike down morningside way
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Work colleague had some brought in yesterday, greggs doughnuts in a flash box. VERY average, very overpriced and not a patch on proper fresh fried doughnuts.
If I'm going to eat junk food, it may as well be nice junk food!Wouldn't bother again.
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Jinky71: New game to play in Edinburgh. Drive slowly alongside the Krispy Kreme queue then stop near the front with indicator on. They go mental :-)
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Massive queues there last night at around 6pm. Cars parked all over the place, people crossing the road putting motorists at risk, etc, etc.
I see there's a drive through KFC there too. I suppose that lets you get a drive through main course then a drive through pudding without even getting out your car.
That's progress. Just need some drive through toilets and you'll be able to stay behind the wheel 24/7.
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I'm involved in funding in the healthcare sector and think there's a great opportunity to open a new dental practice next door to Krispy Kreme. Anyone want some money to do it? Could even try that as a drive-thru?
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Massive queues there last night at around 6pm.
Fairly massive queues there this evening around 6.30pm. I cycled there just to have a look!
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Arellcat, it is utterly disgusting - there are managers in my place buying 80+ donuts for their dept as 'rewards' for good work.
Someone brought in a massive tray of Asda doughnuts in protest £2 or £3 for 24 !!
What on earth is in these things? No way am I feeding that crap to my son.
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Edinburgh Krispy Kreme looks to open all night
Donuts are for supper, not just for breakfast, lunch and dinner.Posted 11 years ago # -
"What on earth is in these things?"
[Irish parochial housekeeper]
There's cocaine in it.Oh wait, no, raisins, I always get those mixed up.
[/Father Ted]Posted 11 years ago # -
Not very surprised at this since there's clearly demand there. A colleague admitted to passing by near midnight over the weekend and being disappointed because they weren't open (but he could see employees in the shop). He wasn't the only who had driven in expectantly - three or four other cars had done the same.
Admittedly I haven't been keeping on top of news about Krispy Kreme, but there doesn't seem to have been much of an outcry about Scotland's dismal obesity levels in relation to this flagship doughnut store and the mammoth turnover being speculated on. Have I missed it?
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The Death of Three Square Meals? (Radio 4)
Duration: 28 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 24 February 2013There's now no distinction between lunch and dinner - if you fancy a steak at 4pm most cities will be able to help. Consequently people seem to be losing track of when and how much they can eat. It's all just one long munchfest. Sheila Dillon asks if, in our hurry, we've forgotten the value of three square meals a day, eaten at a table at set mealtimes.
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Sheila Dillon asks if, in our hurry, we've forgotten the value of three square meals a day, eaten at a table at set mealtimes.
Did she ask how humans survived and prospered for tens of thousands of years before the invention of "three square meals" a day?
The whole "if you don't sit down at a formal dinner table to eat your meal you will get fat, sick and society will degenerate and your children will be imbeciles" routine is beginning to wear rather thin.
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Hmm. Kaputnik sounds to me like the kind of person who probably doesn't even dress for dinner. :-)
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There's now no distinction between lunch and dinner
Dinner always was at lunchtime...
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Sheila Dillon asks if, in our hurry, we've forgotten the value of three square meals a day, eaten at a table at set mealtimes.
CONSERVATIVE ALERT...
I must admit I like the notion of sitting down in the dinning room for a family meal. No television / interwebs for distraction, just food then conversation. I remember fondly as a teenager the hours we used to spend sat round the dinning room table chatting.
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School Dinners.
Dinner Ladies.
Dinner Hall.
QED.
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I live by myself. Who does Sheila Dillon want me to eat my dinner with? I find it a waste of time to sit at a table and eat when I could be multitasking like shoving spaghetti in my face with one hand and typign one-handed rants about the Food Programme with the other :)
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hhmmmmmm yummm spaghetti.
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Kap, I can only assume you've not seen the food choices made by teenage daughters when left to their own devices. But it's an educational process and they do agree with us on all the main points of nutrition. It's just that the two youngest go off to Tesco for Pot Noodles and Coke if one of us doesn't cook. The eldest has learned to cook pasta and so on but she's a vegetarian and has strong views on the subject.
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For the record, I'm not a microwave meal / pot noodle sort of a person and generally make most things from scratch. I have been known to have a tin of Heinz soup once in a blue moon when needing comfort food.
Back OT, I swung past Kuestionable Krack on my way home tonight. The queue was contained within the Hermiston Gait car park. What was more interesting was two of Lothian and Borders cars who had pulled over drivers who had gone through the "no entry" signs out of Hermiston Gait towards Bankhead Drive.
It's a great use of Police resources I thought to be pulling over people who are so desperate for some donuts that they'll go down roads that they aren't allowed to.
Edinburgh really needs to get some of those rising bollards for its bus-only cut-throughs that destroy the undersides of any violators.
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Ah. Bollards. Have been meaning to post something about that. Maybe a new thread needed. I 'll link to it.
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I've seen folk doing that before I can't help but laugh.
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Edinburgh Krispy Kreme looks to open all night
Might make a useful middle of the night edge of town Audax control ?
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Not if you have to wait an hour for the addicts to be served first! (and not at the prices I've seen quoted!) How about malones bakery on Slateford road if you need a night-time checkpoint on the West of the city?
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The number of......how can I put this.......less desirable types.......has increased around Edinburgh Park / Hermiston Gait since this shrine to fried food arrived.
I have thought all week that the manners of the people waiting at Edinburgh Park bus stop has been noticably poorer - e.g. not automatically moving when they see me (on the shared path) etc, tutting and moving at very last minute.
Tonight was a classic - past said bus stop, 2 females and a male - I pinged my bell about 20 yards away, the girls moved over no problem 'thanks very much' I said as I eased past "should be oan the f**kin road" said Einstein.
I responded in an Anglo Saxon manner, but can report that (unsurprisingly) they were carrying at least one box of a dozen KK donuts.
Using the Daily Mail stats model, I have clearly demonstrated a causal link from Krispy Kreme to Schemie behaviour.
Do I win a PhD?
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But.... Richard Branson is doing a deal to get Krispy Kreme 'donuts' on the new Virgin Atlantic services to London. Maybe a ploy to create excess baggage.
You will also be able to drink irn-bru. And I thought Virgin Atlantic were upmarket...!This from tonight's Evening News. Virgin have double page spread plus Pr.
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