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      08-25-2020, 08:56 PM   #1
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In the most Boston thing ever, Dunkin and Harpoon are making doughnut infused beers

Dunkin made a donut breakfast sandwich a few years ago... just sayin

For my north of the border friends possibly confused, Dunkin to us is like your Tim Hortons

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I'm gunna pass on this, I don't really drink much anymore and the donuts are sorta meh, I rather have hot Krispy Kreme, when we go to FL (winters) my whole family craves 2 places after we land, Waffle House then to KK for hot donuts, we usually pass out soon after
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I am not a fan of Dunkin so I'll have to pass. LOL
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Abomination. Yuck.

I gave up on DD when they stopped making the original, plain Dunkin' Donut and crullers.
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Abomination. Yuck.

I gave up on DD when they stopped making the original, plain Dunkin' Donut and crullers.
Morning routine in Mass
Grab a cruller have an XL, 3 Parliaments, take a dump


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Weak ass coffee and no crullers. I'm amazed they're still in business.
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Weak ass coffee and no crullers. I'm amazed they're still in business.
I'm not. I worked there in high school. Some of the cash these places pull in just after one day is amazing.
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FWIW, KK is opening a flag ship destination store in Times Square. It will even have some sort of glaze waterfall fountain.....
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Morning routine in Mass
Grab a cruller have an XL, 3 Parliaments, take a dump


Unlike SNL of late, this video still makes me laugh every time I watch it.

Also, yes Dunks sucks. I don't drink much coffee, but when I do, McDonald's and Aroma Joe's are both way better.
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Is that supposed to be a new thing? I have had several donut beers, and they are usually pretty dang good.
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Weak ass coffee and no crullers. I'm amazed they're still in business.
I'm not. I worked there in high school. Some of the cash these places pull in just after one day is amazing.
over 4,200 stores in New England over 8,500 41 states across the U.S.A.

It's simple drinkable coffee, not the best but very fine for me

February 2015, a Dunkin franchise group paid me big $ to remove snow and ice off 10 buildings, average sq ft was less than 2k (shoveling fu**ing snow) it was cup cake work just 2 work days with a skeleton crew

1 day not open costs the operators $2500 to $3k in lost profits per location, they signed the contract with a smile

Saturated in this market for sure but all seem very profitable
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I love dunkin coffee! Mainly because you tell them you want that shit with cream and sugar and they give you a nice cup of cream and sugar with a drizzle of coffee. Soooo good. Anywhere else they ask you how many sugars, how many cream??? Brooo you're the chef, keep putting cream and sugar until that shit tastes good!!!

Unfortunately been on low carb since the start of this covid shit so haven't had any dunkin. Pretty much just espresso shots at home.
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I love dunkin coffee! Mainly because you tell them you want that shit with cream and sugar and they give you a nice cup of cream and sugar with a drizzle of coffee. Soooo good. Anywhere else they ask you how many sugars, how many cream??? Brooo you're the chef, keep putting cream and sugar until that shit tastes good!!!

Unfortunately been on low carb since the start of this covid shit so haven't had any dunkin. Pretty much just espresso shots at home.
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Not a lot of DD in Cali but there is one about 1.5 miles from me. Does good business from what i can tell and yes it does have "crullers".
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Is that supposed to be a new thing? I have had several donut beers, and they are usually pretty dang good.
100%!

They're awesome. New not so much tho
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I love dunkin coffee! Mainly because you tell them you want that shit with cream and sugar and they give you a nice cup of cream and sugar with a drizzle of coffee. Soooo good. Anywhere else they ask you how many sugars, how many cream??? Brooo you're the chef, keep putting cream and sugar until that shit tastes good!!!

Unfortunately been on low carb since the start of this covid shit so haven't had any dunkin. Pretty much just espresso shots at home.
Southern New England about 100 mile radius around Boston, Hartford CT, Providence RI to Portland ME all have specific ways of making coffee for faster ordering?!?

Med hot regular is 3 cream 3 sugars, I personally like 1+1

If I'm in/around New haven CT closer to the evil empire NYC a regular medium hot coffee is just black NOT decaf

depends where your @ when you order
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They're far from the first to make a "pastry" porter or stout....
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Southern New England about 100 mile radius around Boston, Hartford CT, Providence RI to Portland ME all have specific ways of making coffee for faster ordering?!?

Med hot regular is 3 cream 3 sugars, I personally like 1+1

If I'm in/around New haven CT closer to the evil empire NYC a regular medium hot coffee is just black NOT decaf

depends where your @ when you order
I dunno but around here dunkin is the only place that will add whatever cream and sugar they feel is appropriate when you order coffee with cream and sugar. Everywhere else they always ask you how many cream and how many sugars or you have to do it yourself.

My friend from CA came over once and we went to dunkin. I told him just order it with cream and sugar (he likes it sweet like me). He was super skeptical they would get the right amount of cream and sugar. He wanted to do it himself... I was like trust me... these are professionals. Anyways it came out perfect.

No idea how much cream and sugar is standard issue at dunkin and I'm honestly not sure I want to know. I've seen the shovel they use to put sugar in the coffee so...
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am I the only one who still gets donuts at DD? My boys love DD nuts
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am I the only one who still gets donuts at DD? My boys love DD nuts
I do... I mean I don't because I'm a fat bastard on a diet... but I did... and would. Glazed, old fashioned or boston cream yum!

Honestly around here you don't have a whole lot of options in the donut department. We've been to other parts of the country where they seem to have donut shops everywhere, same with those little coffee huts or whatever they are called. None of that here. We do have a couple fancy fru fru donut places, but their donuts are like 5lbs and cost $50.
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A new donut shop opened here in our little burg a few weeks ago. $17/doz. Yikes. All seriously frosted. Major sugar OD eating them.
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I'd go for the Boston Kreme Stout, sounds awesome.
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