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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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illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:12

The K is the accents !

krispy kreme picture GIF
Fizzygoo · 03/02/2025 22:12

Cream

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.

Potsofpetals · 03/02/2025 22:07

It’s cream. Always has been and no matter how much the brits try to say otherwise l, that won’t change.

StrawberrySquash · 03/02/2025 22:05

Cream. Because no one says Crem for a Cadbury crème egg either.

Plus crem sounds horrible. Like the abbreviation for crematorium, which is doubly bad coupled with crispy.

MasterBeth · 03/02/2025 22:04

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:02

I say creme eggs actually

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But how do you pronounce "creme"?

LemonNamalaka · 03/02/2025 22:02

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 21:29

Expensive luxury doughnuts are not the cause of obesity in the UK

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Expensive, yes
Luxury, no

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:02

Cuffi · 03/02/2025 22:01

Cream. We say cream eggs not crème egg

I say creme eggs actually

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 03/02/2025 22:02

Krispy Krem

Cuffi · 03/02/2025 22:01

Cream. We say cream eggs not crème egg

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:00

Because the K is weirdly extended it looks like joint funky accents for creme and when I saw Krispy written that way with a K, none of the other usual English language rules apply anymore. Additionally there is creme as a food ingredient and I think those donuts have a creamy filling. Lastly rules for names are different, people are quoting english language words like theme, but this is a business name and a non British business as well and in some names you pronounce the e at the end.

wipeywipe · 03/02/2025 21:59

Of course there are posters tripping over themselves to lecture us about obesity on a post about pronunciation

We have lost sight of the crem!

wipeywipe · 03/02/2025 21:58

Krispy kreem but id assume a lot of the folk mispronouncing it simply don't know the brand from pop culture and are assuming its like the french word "crème", as in "crème de cassis" or "crème caramel". It's not really surprising as in a food related sense a spelling like that would usually be pronounced crem.

But it's not a french brand

WetBandits · 03/02/2025 21:58

TumbledTussocks · 03/02/2025 21:55

Cream

It’s not crème de la crème de la Edgar now is it?

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Takeoutyourhen · 03/02/2025 21:58

Crispy Cream.
Crem, whether it’s Krispy, sudo or egg, makes my brain shudder.

wipeywipe · 03/02/2025 21:58

Laughing about crem eggs!

wipeywipe · 03/02/2025 21:55

I thought it was only cream

TumbledTussocks · 03/02/2025 21:55

Cream

It’s not crème de la crème de la Edgar now is it?

Zanatdy · 03/02/2025 21:53

Cream

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 21:53

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 21:49

Yes even Krispy Kreamy is a logical pronounciation. The last E in Kreme is so silly if they want it said as Cream

No because if there wasn't the last e, it would be pronounced Krem.

MasterBeth · 03/02/2025 21:52

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 21:47

I say Krispy Crem because if they wanted it to be cream surely Kreem is the spelling!

Theme. Scheme. Extreme. Meme. Phoneme.

EDIT: you beat me to it!

HamandCheeseSandwich · 03/02/2025 21:52

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 21:47

I say Krispy Crem because if they wanted it to be cream surely Kreem is the spelling!

Why would you think it is "em" when all of these are "eem"

Theme
Supreme
Phoneme
Blaspheme
Extreme
Grapheme
Scheme
Meme

There's no accent... Every word in English ending in 'eme' no accent is "eem"

Luddite26 · 03/02/2025 21:51

WetBandits · 03/02/2025 21:47

Of course there are posters tripping over themselves to lecture us about obesity on a post about pronunciation🥱

I say ‘Crispy Cream’, and I’d like a glazed raspberry one, please.

I wasn't lecturing I was just explaining I call it crem short for crematorium.

I was only saying what comes in my head when I see them before I say crem. Didn't mention don't buy them just said what a pile of shit they are.

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 21:49

Yes even Krispy Kreamy is a logical pronounciation. The last E in Kreme is so silly if they want it said as Cream

Luddite26 · 03/02/2025 21:48

Good point @MasterBeth . Just the sight of them sends me into a rage so no good for my MH. It's just a symbol of how we are doomed !😁

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