OMG it's happening ....

That's because yankees have no taste!

 

Krispy Kreme got killed in the Toronto area too

 

Had Waffle House in Ohio this year, solid diner food, not fancy, but solid and good workers, like Alice.

 

In Massachusetts they opened one or two stores with much fanfare, but after a few weeks nobody cared and were not driving 30 miles for supposedly great donuts.

They never attempted to have the presence of Dunkin, which doomed them.

 

I’ve been to 2.
One in Amarillo, TX and one in Colorado Springs.
You’re right. It’s solid diner food.
The people in there……not just the workers but the customers……you could see anything from drunk/hungover college kids…..to doctors/nurses coming off a 12-hour rotation to truck drivers.
Great.
Now I’ve got a hankering for something covered, peppered and topped.

 

We have stand alone KK places with the "hot" sign, and they are in many gas stations and grocery stores... even the grocery stores with a bakery that make their own.

 

Scattered and covered for me.

The most popular variety I've heard is scattered, smothered, covered and chunked.

Like most of its ilk, it might not be wise for Waffle House to be a staple of one's diet. But on occasion? Bring it.

 

Same in Toronto, they weren't everywhere like Tim Hortons and once people realized that, unlike Tims, they pretty much had nothing other than donuts the novelty died off pretty fast.

I visited the Tims in Glasgow when we were there in 2022 and it was an overpriced curiosity. I could buy a pint of beer at the pub a few doors up for half the price of a coffee. I got my coffee fix at McDonald's or Costa Coffee.

 

I actually own some Tim Horton's stock. I wound up with it though some sale of Wendy's I bought years ago. I get a dividend check from Canada every quarter and have to fill out paperwork from time to time.

 

Donut rankings, bearing in mind that all of the chain joints suck on some level:

1. Dunkin'. Baseline basic.
2. Tim Horton's. Can't really get baseline basic right. Chocolate is weird.
3. Winchell's. See Horton's.
4. Krispy Kreme. Southerners are weirdos. Sticky buns so sticky they're annoying. I don't need the Stay-Puft Marshmellow Man's dried-ish ejaculate on my donuts, thank you.

 

Y'all probably drink unsweet tea.