To ask how you pronounce Krispy Kreme?

[calvermegan]

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?

Expensive, yes
Luxury, no

But how do you pronounce "creme"?

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.

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

@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.

Cream

The K is the accents !

But then the r and m have accents too then...?

And the rispy...

Good point 😂

I say cream, the way Americans have always said it on tv.

I think when it came over here a lot of people hadn't heard it and tried to say it phonetically as crem.

Ok, so you pronounce Creme Eggs wrong and you pronounce Krispy Kreme wrong. Nice work.

I'm obese according to my BMI and I have never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut in my life, and probably only 10 donuts of any sort. So he may have a point.

@MasterBeth well how do you pronounce chorizo?

Cream.

"Kreme" is not a word, so it has no "official" pronunciation. But, as it doesn't have a grave accent like crème, I see no reason to pronounce it to rhyme with crème.

But there are two more important things about Krispy Kreme doughnuts/donuts/tagnuts/whatever, apart from the fact that they are neither crispy nor creamy, nor even Kremey.

1. They taste utterly revolting and are in no way worth the 250 kCal, 9 g of fat, 6 g of sugar, +1 cm of waist diameter and -1 week of life expectancy per portion
2. The penis who drives the Krsipy Kreme lorry and parks it on double yellow lines outside Sainsbury's - opposite a junction and reducing the width of the road to barely a car's width - every single day must have eaten so much of his product that he can't haul his bulk more than the 2-metre width of the pavement

Only on Mumsnet, on a simple pronunciation thread, can some posters turn it into a rant about obesity etc

Crispy cream. Occasional partaker. Not obese. Because there is such a thing as being able to make your own healthy choices as well as have a treat occasionally.

Anyone in the USA saying Krispie Crem is mocking the name to make it sound more upscale.

Also Kreme has nothing to do with a cream filling. They were originally just plain glazed yeast donuts. No filling. Best eaten fresh and hot.

Krispee kreem. Never bought one, it would be my downfall and I'd be chasing them every day.

I live opposite a crem with a footpath through so everyone uses it as a cut-through and most of us in our neighbourhood refer to it often and call it the crem. Might start calling it the kreme to be expensive and luxurious.

It's cream.

@illegalSausage you honestly say crem egg?

Why?

Cream, that is what I'm sure the original trademark creators had in mind back in 1937

But of course, we have Pure Cremation, Just Cremation, Distinct Cremation, are they diversifying the business?, is Krispy Crem their new line in cut priced funerals, free box of doughnuts thrown in?

Presumably because it's a bit like the French 'crème' (but with a 'k').

I'd pronounce it 'cream' though. Not sure why people are still arguing for crem though, as the company made it pretty clear!

Crispy crem - sounds like and ad for a funeral director.

Why? What about 'theme', 'scheme' and 'meme' ?

Correctly.

@mallorytowers8282 because its written creme egg in the French way
Cream eggs sounds disgusting