To not understand the fuss about Krispy Kremes?

[theqentity]

Ok, so maybe not the fuss, but why are they everywhere and as popular as they are? My local Sainsburys started stocking them last year and they seem to be pretty popular there.

I like the occasional donut, particularly hot fresh ones when I go to the seaside. I had a pretty good glazed ring one from Morrisons the other day that hit the spot too.

Krispy Kreme feel like poor clones of doughnuts. The glazes are very shiny, granted, but the artificial flavourings in them, and the fillings, leave a sort of plasticky taste behind. I can't really bring myself to eat one of the 'Kreme' filled ones after reading the ingredients that go into it. I'd never even heard of 'diammonium phosphate' until I did a bit of internet digging.

They're also full of palm oil, both the donuts and the glazes.

Are we just eating them because they're everywhere? Or do we genuinely think they're the best?

I like them, mostly the original ring ones. Warm sugared donuts are a bit oily for me. I used to like Gregg's pink jam ones but they've done something to them and now they don't taste the same. Almost like plastic.

@hugr

They don't taste nice though. They taste like they were cloned, badly.

Surely you have to understand that, with them being everywhere and very popular, that you are likely in the minority?

If they're donuts, there's your answer, they're vile whoever makes them! For all the time we've spent in the US I've never got to like donuts, hot dogs, muffins or Subway sandwiches! Actually, I just realised that we had the most divine muffin, raspberry and white chocolate, warm from the oven, in Akaroa in New Zealand in 2006!

I prefer planet donut, there based in shrewsbury but have other stores around and do nationwide delivery. 😋

I love them! My favourite though was a maple dip donut from Tim Houghtons

This may shock OP, but different people like different foods.
Some people may like more sweeter desserts, others may not have a sweet tooth at all.

The dragging in of the ingredients list (which is very normal for a mass made baked good) is hilarious - OP sounds like the type to be pearl clutching over seeing dihydrogen monoxide included in a baguette's ingredients.

There's clearly a lot of marketing hype around this brand though.

I speak as a lover of doughnuts, mass produced included.

I think they're for people wanting a sugar hit. Fresh bakery ones are nice for the fresh doughy taste. I don't like the seaside ones

I don't mind them but I do think they're very expensive for what they are. My favourite is just a fresh jam or apple sauce filled doughnut covered in granulated sugar from a supermarket. I weirdly don't like the ones covered in icing sugar.

I like Dunkin Donuts. And seaside fresh ring doughnuts.

Krispy Kreme taste to me like someone described a doughnut to someone without knowing the proper recipe and they did the best they could.

They're very expensive for what they are too.

Agreed. I just don't get the fuss

I love the hot fresh sugared donuts at the seaside.
Every time i've had a Krispy Kreme (only about twice!) I've had a bad stomach straight after

I like them. No fuss made

I’m a baker. I bake cakes for a living. I have my own successful bakery.

I dislike donuts.

I genuinely love KK biscoff or Strawberry & cream. The only 2 donuts in the history of donuts that I enjoy.

Do I care what’s in them? No… because anything you buy from any mass produced bakery has preservatives. It’s a treat.

Do I care that someone else dislikes them? No. Same as I don’t care which way folk like to hang their loo roll and how I don’t care if people rate pineapple on pizza or not. It’s me eating it, it affects no one else whatsoever. I’ve always found it so strange how people react to things other people like to eat. I don’t find it at all unreasonable to dislike KK but I do find posting an ingredient list as a response to someone else saying they do like KK unreasonable and obnoxious. Live and let live.

I’m off to have cheesy pasta with ketchup for lunch.

YABVVVU!

Agree, YANBU re: filled ones. YABU re: glazed. YANBU everyone who says KK ones are beyond sweet. OP YABU with weird ingredients list when Morrisons just as bad. Though YANBU with Morrisons being better (Morrisons have a surprisingly winning bakery all round imo). YABU anyone who likes the hot, sugar ones that leave your mouth coated in fat. Blergh.

This thread is a rollercoaster of emotions I didn't know I had for doughnuts. Lotta feels right now...

Final word: Greggs yum yums win everything ever. Everyone who disagrees is BVVVVU.

My Polish colleague introduced us to the delight that is Fat Thursday and turned up last week with a tray of Polish doughnuts from the local Polish delicatessen - filled with rose hip jam, glazed and topped with orange peel - enough for three each. They are delightful, and unfortunately available walking distance from my house. They also come with plum jam or custard.

No other doughnuts can complete! A close second is the Tesco Berliner doughnut.

American here, totally indifferent to Krispy Kremes (and loathe Subway). To me, real doughnuts are apple cider doughnuts, sturdy fresh plain and cinnamon doughnuts that are ubiquitous at farmstands and farmer's markets in the Northeast. No brand, made by local bakers, eaten with fresh apple cider or taken home for later. They remind me of Autumn and apple picking and pumpkins and hayrides and glorious red, orange, and yellow leaves against a bright blue sky. Every bite, pure nostalgia.

I agree OP, I think they taste nasty !

I don't like the taste of 'normal' doughnuts.

I do like Krispy Kreme. Maybe BECAUSE of the so called 'artificial' taste.

I would like to put myself forward as a candidate for the donut blind taste test...

They taste revolting. Very sickly sweet and kind of stale. I only like freshly made donuts.

I took a bite out of one once and had to spit it out. Far too sweet for me.

I’ve just had one and it tasted very chemically

I actually did a blind taste test on my teen son who is always pestering me for Krispy Kreme. One KK, one M&S doughnut and a posh one from a local place called DoughNotts.

It may be his ASD, he concurred that the others were nice but still preferred the KK aa it's Exactly The Same Every Time. Like McDonalds. Like Subway. Crap, but predictable crap.