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?

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.

Crem? How very Hyacinth 'Bouquet'..

Never had cause to say it tbf

Southern U.S. — Cream

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

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.

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

"Crispy Cream" (am in the US and that's how it's pronounced here).

If it were crem it would at lease have an accent on it like this krème.

Crispy cream

Ah bless you, you must be quite young and/or not be close to any older relatives. When you are at the age to have friends dying regularly, believe me there is a lot of talk about what people will be doing “after the crem”.

The pronunciation is exactly the same as Crispy Creme. Creme is a French word meaning 'cream.' Creme is pronounced 'Crem.' So Crispy Crem.

Tilypu posted the definitive answer from the company - crispy cream

Crispy Cream. Although I don't think I've ever spoken the words aloud, it's how I say it in my head.

Cream

I’m going to go ahead and assume all the people pronouncing it “crem” also say “marshmellow”.

If it was a Kreme Egg and I didn't have an authoritative pronunciation to rely on, I might have said crem?

But they're American not French and 'Kreme' is just a spelling they've gone for in thier brand to make it sound fast foody I assume

Well my dh called it Hirspy Herme as he couldn’t read the writing on the sign and thought it was a H. So that’s how we pronounce it here now!

It doesn't matter how you pronounce it, it's still over-sweetened junk that tastes unremarkable.

I think I do! How could you tell? 🤣

Krispy crem people are saying it wrong!

It's crispy cream.

Can't believe there's people out there that actually say crem egg.
I despise cream eggs so I shouldn't care, but I'm incredulous at this revelation.

That is very literary of you. Though I am a huge Mantel fan, it reminds me of ‘crematorium’.😀

I love how total boob moments are immortalised forever and adopted as standard language. It makes life a little more fun.