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PettyWitch t1_j4kskhi wrote

I can't imagine why people like Dunkin Donuts. I grew up in this area and all we had for donuts really was Dunkin Donuts -- so I thought all donuts tasted like dry, chemical garbage. I moved out west as an adult and it was years before I bothered to try donuts, and they were delicious at both the chains like Krispey Kreme and even moreso the small shops.

Come back here and everything is disgusting again at DD and every small store that makes them they taste like dry flakey bread, like all Italian pastries. Why? Somebody tried to take me to a gourmet donut shop around here and once again it was like the driest, blandest donut I've ever had with some toppings on top. Why? Why can't we do donuts here? Why can't anybody make them taste like the delicious, soft doughy fried experience they should be?

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MikeTheActuary t1_j4kv1xz wrote

>Why can't we do donuts here?

Better questions to ask are: "why can't places with better donuts do better coffee?" and "why do New Englanders settle for DD's mediocrity?"

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OGsKiTTZz t1_j4kvybn wrote

because of there rewards program

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LtDropshot t1_j4l4g4r wrote

Too bad they fucked that up too with the recent-ish changes

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Malkor t1_j4lb442 wrote

There were great donut places here - Dunkin' drove them out of business.

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TrogdarBurninator t1_j4lmb96 wrote

had a great local coffeshop with decent breakfast food. AND a drive through. DD bought them, put in a DD for about a year, then built a new dd down the road and dumped the site.

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pojo458 t1_j4les9p wrote

I started going to local place for bagels, donuts, and coffee when I lived in CT. Google/Apple map search you will find a good 1-2 nearby.

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Dirt_Bike_Zero t1_j4ncjh7 wrote

That's because they aren't getting coffee they can taste. They're getting some kind of breakfast dessert with cream, caramel, vanilla flavoring & whipped cream. Coffee may be in there , but you sure as hell can't taste it.

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jules13131382 t1_j4kybc7 wrote

We actually have small donut shops in Connecticut as well and I will say I recently had some donuts from Big Y and they were fucking amazing. There are Polish bakeries that make really good donuts too…so there’s definitely donuts out here

FYI donuts are horrible for you, so it’s not something I can really consume on a regular basis

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mrcabrera t1_j4nvdtm wrote

Big Y donuts are god tier, especially when you get them about 45 min after they open. I say that because if you go right at opening, they don’t usually have all of the donuts out. The only think dunkin has over everyone is the convenience factor. That’s it.

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jules13131382 t1_j4nz79r wrote

Yeah, I picked a couple of just regular glazed donuts from Big Y a couple weeks ago and they were so fluffy. They were amazing but that’s not something I can eat very often they’re so good but they’re terrible for you.

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PettyWitch t1_j4kz55z wrote

The ones from Big Y are disgusting compared to what you get out west…. Y’all don’t know what you’re missing if you haven’t had them

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jules13131382 t1_j4l1tpp wrote

I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Seattle Washington, so I have spent the majority of my life on the West Coast. 🙄

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PettyWitch t1_j4ma128 wrote

Then you have bad taste in food 😩

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jules13131382 t1_j4mebl1 wrote

Lol that could be true. I’m not very picky. I do know that the West Coast is super into really boutique hipster food and I think you probably see that more in New Haven or Greenwich, or some of the extremely wealthy areas of Connecticut, maybe not so much in Central Connecticut.

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PettyWitch t1_j4mje5r wrote

I was just kidding though, everybody has their own taste in food, can't be good or bad :)

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LeftHandedFapper t1_j4l1fsc wrote

Ever check out Neil's? Thought that their donuts were pretty awesome

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Green_House_57 t1_j4l1xxy wrote

Neil’s has a cult following and I support it. The Boston Cream and Jelly Filled are magnificent.

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Battlemountain_2 t1_j4kz0pj wrote

I tried one at Brooklyn baking company recently that was pretty tasty.

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iSheepTouch t1_j4kuw1l wrote

Donut Crazy in West Hartford is pretty good. But I agree, I don't understand why people like Dunkin at all, the donuts are absolutely trash and the coffee is McDonald's tier, so it's drinkable but nothing great. Any little Vietnamese run donut shop in California would absolutely blow New England's mind.

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LeftHandedFapper t1_j4l1j5e wrote

> coffee is McDonald's tier

I think McD's coffee is actually legit. Dunkin's is thin crap

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iSheepTouch t1_j4l9pdp wrote

I wouldn't argue with that. I would go to McDonald's 10/10 times over Dunkin for a basic cup of coffee.

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DOOMSDAYP3PPER t1_j4l17jb wrote

Tell me you’ve never been to Neil’s without telling me you’ve never been to Neil’s.

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senorbolsa t1_j4kxwz3 wrote

I want honeydew to expand down here, their breakfast sandwiches and bagels are 8/10

I don't know much about coffee though, honeydew seems about as good as any other chain serving over roasted coffee here.

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kuavi t1_j4lre59 wrote

Orchards during apple picking season usually have kickass apple cider doughnuts!

Other than that, yeah the donut scene sucks in the northeast.

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ScarTissueSarcastic t1_j4kus1f wrote

I'm from the west, it might explain my disgust for the DD chain. Where out west did you move?

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PettyWitch t1_j4kzguj wrote

Colorado. Fucking Lamar’s Donuts ruined me for life. So much variety, all moist, soft, delicious. They were better the simpler the donut because they were made so well. Out here every donut tastes like a chocolate chip cookie made at an Italian bakery (dry, mildly sweet, utterly flavorless)

I will say that bread is much better here though

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Slobbadobbavich t1_j4kxrp7 wrote

At least it isn't dizzy feans where you get a complementary bucket of dirty mop water thrown on you.

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Stretchy_Cat t1_j4lxhvk wrote

If you're looking for soft, moist, doughy, fried glazed doughnuts then I'd recommend Brooklyn Baking in Waterbury. They don't do a ton of flavors, they're not trendy hipster doughnuts with a pile of candy or cereal or bacon or rainbow frosting (or all of the above) on top, but they're simple and delicious. I've never had a dry doughnut there.

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BronzedAppleFritter t1_j4mz91g wrote

I grew up here too, but in an era when there was the Whole Donut, Bess Eaton, a few local shops in the towns around me, etc. Dunkin Donuts was the worst one, but they weren't as bad. If I remember right, DD made their donuts more locally and they weren't quite as bad as they are now.

It's interesting that CT has had what seems like a big drain on good donut places, but RI still has tons of really good independent donut shops.

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