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There are free samples, yes:
"Try our homemade cakes with our free tasting - see our cafe and check out our menu for sit in and take away. Come along for tastings of local produce including Supernature Oils, Hood's Honey, Belhaven smoked fish, etc. There will be a bread demonstration and tasting courtesy of Breadshare of Dolphinton - artisan bread-makers."
Passed this little cavalcade on the way home tonight. It took me a minute to work out what the big white boxes they had in each hand were...
To be fair them all, they were walking and were already quite a way from Hermiston Gait. They were on the long bit of towpath by Wester Hailes Education Centre and had a long way to go before they'd be anywhere...
That Daily Mail article: The National Obesity Forum has a representative called Tam Fry?
I know I'm a little late to the party, here, but I must raise the defense to my country's de facto breakfast food.
There be many a century; nay, many a half-metric that, but for the existence of Krispy Kremes, I would have crumpled under the load and been left whimpering and whampering by the side of the road.
Krispy Kremes, they uplift me; yea, they verily resemble the manna gently spread across the rosy fields of my travels.
And if I can't get them, I'll settle for Oreos.
@twowheels
Do they contain an addictive chemical that makes you crave them every fourteen days?
That is how Col. Saunders got into the Pentamvirate (other members The Gettys, The Rothschilds, The Queen and the Pope). According to Mike Myers.
Hadn't heard that one :-)
Plain everyday chemicals are addictive enough. I heard once on the radio a lovely summary of the processed food industry. It makes its profits by taking cheap ingredients and adding cheap things to them to make them taste better, so it can flog them to you for a lot more money. These are its three great recipes:
Neigh, surely not
Beautiful! Darwin in action.
Local SNP councillor Catherine Fullerton said: “Why would someone risk their own life – and the life of drivers – just to save a couple of minutes?”
*jaw drops*
I don't quite know where to start with tearing apart the hypocrisy of this soundbite...
You beat me to it with that quote, MeepMeep...
I'm now confused as to where this Krispy Kreme thing is. I thought it was near B&Q?
Fimm: it's the opposite side of the roundabout to the part of Hermiston Gait that B&Q is in. Next to the newly built hotel, I think?
MeepMeep, yes, it's opposite the Novotel I believe. If I wasn't busy with a sore throat-in-training today I'd have a look after work today, just to marvel a little bit.
Concerns have been raised about the site after it emerged people had been parking near the outlet at Hermiston Gait and then walking across the busy road to get the store.
Stuff the cyclists and pedestrians exposed to the dangerous road layouts here EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS, but heaven forbid a few donut obsessives wander across it at the wrong point.
Pathetic.
Also, wonder how much in brown envelopes is changing hands between Crispy Calories and the Chipwrapper to do all this free advertising for them?
K, Crispy Calories is right! Only about 200 of them per doughnut.
The "...Whole Wheat Glazed doughnut [is] an attempt to appeal to the health conscious. The doughnut has 84 kJ (20 kcal) fewer than the original glazed (754 kJ/180 kcal vs. 837 kJ/200 kcal)."
I believe that a Creme Egg has about 180 kcal too. One branded Jelly Baby is about 20 kcal.
MeepMeep, Arellcat, oh, there. Thank you.
I only go past there in the train most days. (Mind you I'm usually reading something or something like that.)
+1 kaputnik...
or the horror, car drivers are actually having to slow down... we can't have that...
Looked out the window yesterday evening and spotted it (and the queue of cars...)
Also, wonder how much in brown envelopes is changing hands between Crispy Calories and the Chipwrapper to do all this free advertising for them?
Nowadays you don't have to give the press money to get a story printed. Such is the need to fill space as easily and cheaply as possible you just need to give them something they can copy, paste, top and tail...
Maybe with a little bit of coordination we could get an endless diet of pro-cycling stories in there... [that is, "in favour of cycling" as opposed to "professional cycling"]
Can you sit in? We could do a KK, in place of a PY sometime. Check out the bike parking and stuff.
"in place of a PY sometime"
Talking of which -
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9374&replies=22#post-101382
As I cycle past it most days in/out of Edinburgh Park, I decided to go in this morning to see what the fuss was, and 'treat' my co-workers..Especially as a bike skips the queue for the car park/drive thru..There wasn't any bike parking that I could see. You can sit in, but there wasn't a huge amount of seats. They were churning out boxes of the doughnuts to the lines ,of I guess, local Edinburgh Parkers.. People were going out with boxes by the dozen.
Mate at work 50 this week - brought in KK's (partly to annoy me), partly to see if he could cycle with 2 boxes.
They are 'ok' nothing special and repeated on me all day tuesday.
Wouldnt Q up myself.
They are 'ok' nothing special and repeated on me all day tuesday.
I had my first taste of them in the week as well (again, a colleague's birthday) and that was my feeling too. But I'm not a big fan of doughnuts anyway. Amongst those in the office that are, opinion was divided 50% saying they were the best thing since sliced doughnuts and 50% that the Tesco ones are nicer.
I've left this for a while, but am I the only one who looks at the typo in the threat title and visualises doughnuts wearing blue bandanas, cruising around in a low-rider looking to pop a crunk into a 5-0's gat?
Umm. Could you rephrase the question please?
The only 5-0 I know is Hawaii. (Specifically the eternally wonderful opening title sequence)
Wow the sign is the biggest turn off for me. Its got that stereo typical US 1950s look which I lothe. Fortunately for me I live and work nowhere near the place so no chance of having anyone bring any into work.
It occurs to me that people have been doing that "tray of doughnuts" (sorry, "donuts") thing for a few years now, they buy big boxes of them in Costco for 3p or so.
Remember Twin Peaks? Remember the policemens' doughnut orgies? Where doughnuts of every possible hue and pattern were solemnly laid on the police table to be gazed at lovingly before consumption? There were so many colours of doughnut there that I took it to be another deliberately surreal touch. Who could really have access to such a ridiculous array in such a small town? But no, American capitalism really does concentrate on that sort of thing, it seems, freedom of choice of doughnut icing colour.
Greggs jammy donut is just fine. Although I seriously doubt it's actual jam in them, but it's a Greggs donut, what do you expect?
Get a bus to Blackpool. Walk down to the sea front. Get on a tram that goes to Fleetwood. Stay on it until the terminus. Get off and walk into the Ferry Cafe. Order a bag of doughnuts. Take them to a window seat, sit down, wipe the condensation from the glass, look out over the grey water towards the old ferry terminal and take a bite of the best fried doughnut to be had anywhere.
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