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To ask how you pronounce Krispy Kreme?

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calvermegan · 03/02/2025 21:02

I have always said Crispy Cream. That is what they were called on any American tv show I watched growing up.

Now they are mainstream in the UK I often hear people call them “Crispy Crem”

Which one do you say?

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CaptainBeanThief · 03/02/2025 23:59

Cream,
I've just tried saying "crem" out loud and it made me sound like I was trying too hard to sound pretentious

BobbyBiscuits · 03/02/2025 23:58

Why would it not be 'cream'? It's not like something french, like 'creme de la creme' etc.
But more to the point, why call it that when most of them have nothing cream related? Maybe custard? They're shite anyway. The hole is too big and they have no flavour.

ANGIEPANGY77 · 03/02/2025 23:54

I'm an American southerner born in the state of the company's origin and it is definitely pronounced crispy cream.

MsDogLady · 03/02/2025 23:36

Southern U.S. — Cream

Serenandnova · 03/02/2025 23:20

Never had cause to say it tbf

Caerulea · 03/02/2025 23:20

Crem? How very Hyacinth 'Bouquet'..

OffOnOurHols · 03/02/2025 23:19

I say crem but I know it is cream as I got an email from them a few years ago on the 1st of April saying that they were going to change the spelling in the UK to Crispy Cream as we were all pronouncing it wrong! They sent a second email saying it was an April fool but pointed out that it is pronounced as cream.

SwedishEdith · 03/02/2025 23:03

I remember a thread once about how to pronounce meme. Some then were saying mem. (Some even thought it was me me).

HumphreyCushionintheHouse · 03/02/2025 23:01

RaveToTheGrave1 · 03/02/2025 21:35

Cream, from an American

Also here to say cream. I’m a Brit living in California.

RockaLock · 03/02/2025 22:59

It's not spelled like crème though, it's kreme. So it's not the French word, and therefore not pronounced like it.

You wouldn't pronounce theme as them, so why would you say kreme as krem?

BreezySqueazy · 03/02/2025 22:54

I say “crem”, but now that a pp has pointed out that it sounds like an ad for a funeral director I’m not going to be able to say it without thinking of that! 😂, so I will probably say cream going forwards.

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 22:52

NotVeryFunny · 03/02/2025 22:48

Crispy Crem.

As does everyone I know.

If they wanted it pronounced cream, they shouldn't have spelt it like Crème. Perhaps they don't have Creme Fraiche in the US?

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EternalSunshine19 · 03/02/2025 22:50

Cream

NotVeryFunny · 03/02/2025 22:48

Crispy Crem.

As does everyone I know.

If they wanted it pronounced cream, they shouldn't have spelt it like Crème. Perhaps they don't have Creme Fraiche in the US?

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:48

I love the krispy creamy pronounciation. It makes even more sense!

Cherry8809 · 03/02/2025 22:47

The people pronouncing it “Crem” must be sociopaths. No other explanation for it.

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 22:46

DragonFly98 · 03/02/2025 22:43

Krispy Crem

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SoupDragon · 03/02/2025 22:46

"crem" is clearly wrong anyway because of the final e at the end.

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 22:46

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:11

@MasterBeth krem

@StrawberrySquash thats so funny! I have never heard anyone say crem for crematorium because its not a word most of us say often enough to need to abbreviate.

Krem 🤣

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:44

They must have known creme's associations

SoupDragon · 03/02/2025 22:43

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:35

Symmetry and artistic licence like they took liberty making crispy with a K once you break the rule for the first word why are we suddenly strict English for the second word?

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Why have they broken the symmetry with the dot for the i of Krispy then...?

It's not "strict English" it's pronouncing it like the company said it"s pronounced.

DragonFly98 · 03/02/2025 22:43

Krispy Crem

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 22:43

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:42

Why not just write it Kream?

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Because they didn't want to

Sibilantseamstress · 03/02/2025 22:43

Moier · 03/02/2025 21:22

Crispy Crem.
Had them in Hartford Connetticut and they pronounced them this way.

Yankees. They wouldn’t know. It’s cream.

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:42

YourAzureEagle · 03/02/2025 22:37

Or the fact that in 1950's graphic design (which is when the logo was created) it was quite common to over or underline a word with an extension of one of the letters, particularly in logos designed by US designers.

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Why not just write it Kream?

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