Open Thread – Krispy Kreme!
If you’re in Anchorage today, you’re in luck! The Carrs on Abbott will be the spot to be as the Unitarian Universalist Youth hold a giant fundraiser to send the whole class to a youth leadership conference in Portland, Oregon this spring. Yes, the ever popular Krispy Kreme donuts will be available for sale just in time for Super Bowl weekend. Grab a couple boxes for the game, or just for a treat.
They’ll start at 8am, and go until there’s none left. There are a thousand dozen donuts, so share this info with your friends and family in Anchorage and help shape the leaders of tomorrow!
I know many people here at the flats are sick to death of snow and winter weather. However, I just have to comment on the delightful scene outside my house.
After a cloudy morning, the most recent round of snow flurries started this afternoon while I was out and about doing chores. At first it was coming down as those tiny round pellets that look like artifical snow made out of styrofoam and bounce off of everything like wee little ping pong balls. A short time later, it went from sleety, wet snow to tiny particles that you could barely see. Finally, it changed to fatter, wetter flakes which have been coming down for several hours. Those fat, wet flakes are sticky enough that they have now covered every branch and tiny twig on every tree and shrub around my house. It looks like everything is frosted, and all that white is reflecting the light from the houses and street lights, making the whole neighborhood glow.
It really IS beautiful and I hope that it stays just like this long enough for me to get some photographs tomorrow morning.
Have a happy and cozy night, all you mudpups!
when I was at FSU (71-73) , there was a doughnut shop across the main drag from the men’s dorm. we’d pull all-niter;s and take a break about 2 am to go get doughnuts and coffee- the cool part of it was you could watch the doughnts travel in the vat of grease, watch them get flipped and cook the other side… and then get HOTDoughnuts with your coffee ! we had no problem staying awake after all that sugar and caffine… I want to say it was KK, but after so many years, I just can’t remember….. š
Being from Boston, I am of course partial to our very own Dunk’n Donuts. Krispy Kreme made an attempt a few years ago to grab some market share by opening shops in Boston. In less than a year they all closed due to lack of business.
Here is a funny commercial starring former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbdP679fk9w&feature=related
Best of luck to the kids on their fundraiser. The best doughnuts I ever had, however, were from Joe’s Doughnuts in Lawrence, Kansas. It was local, run by one family. Joe closed during August when the college students were gone and he may have closed over other KU breaks as well. Nothing was ever as good as taking a study break at 2 am for something from Joe’s. The line was always out the door. And they made fabulous cakes and cupcakes for birthdays, etc.
I think he retired and closed the shop. Then his kids re-opened it, but I heard it’s now closed for good. Sad. Krispy Kremes are good, but they do have to be fresh for me. And I’m sure what makes them taste good isn’t something my arteries want to experience very often. š
Nothing beats home made ones.My mom and I both used to make them
As this is an open thread, I want to thank Jeanne, Shannyn, Linda, Phil, and Jesse -the Alaskan bloggers -who with their different styles, have been dedicated and committed to disseminating the the local and national political news for the last 2.5 years. Thank you!!
Good luck to the very good looking kids! I’ve never before heard of a fundraiser involving doughnuts. I don’t eat corporate doughnuts (Dunkin, KK), but every once in a while (a couple times a year or so) I go to the Donut Pub on 14th and 7th for some fresh doughnut goodness (they brew a decent cup of tea, and the coffee smells good, too, and they even have some food — however, despite the name, you can’t get a pint).
Sorry, but nothing…NOTHING comes close to fresh Krispy Kreme. Let ’em sit for 5 hours on a plane and they become just like any other donut.
In case you missed it:
http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/02/republicans-vote-to-repeal-obama-backed-bill-that-would-destroy-asteroid-headed-for-earth/
From America’s Finest News Service, of course.
Krispy Kreme regular donuts are OK, but Dunkin Donuts are better. Neither one have retail stores in Alaska.
As long as we’re talking about death by heart attack desserts, I did find out that the best vanilla ice cream in the world is available in Anchorage Alaska!!! Outback Restaurants sell Bluebell ice cream!!!
Hey Bob- I agree :>) re: Bluebell vanilla ice cream- I found an IGA grocery in Packwood, WA(near Mt. Rainier) that sold it last summer and it was one of the best vanilla’s I’ve every had- mmmmm!
a very worthwhile read. Wonkette nails it again:
http://wonkette.com/437167/one-hundred-years-of-reagantube-remembering-ronald-reagan-in-dumb-videos#more-437167
And from the comments:
“Poor dear, there’s nothing between his ears.”
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
“President Reagan doesn’t always check the facts before he makes statements, and the press accepts this as kind of amusing.”
former president Jimmy Carter, March 6, 1984
“His errors glide past unchallenged. At one point…he alleged that almost half the population gets a free meal from the government each day. No one told him he was crazy. The general message of the American press is that, yes, while it is perfectly true that the emperor has no clothes, nudity is actually very acceptable this year.”
Simon Hoggart, in The Observer (London), 1986
“The task of watering the arid desert between Reagan’s ears is a challenging one for his aides.”
Columnist David Broder
“He has the ability to make statements that are so far outside the parameters of logic that they leave you speechless”
Patti Davis (formerly Patricia Ann Reagan) talking about her father, The Way I See It
Please read Ronald Reagan’s Reign of Error. The first edition of this slim volume is very simple: first, the Reagan quote, second, the truth. The next edition (when he was, for some strange reason, POTUS) was a bit more complex: First, what Reagan said, next, the facts, and finally, what the White House said he meant. Well worth the read, and I’d bet you can find it for very little money on ebay or at amazon.
Thanks for the quotes. With all the rhetoric from those who want to make Ronnie a saint, I’d forgotten just how much I disliked him, and why. His eight years were the start of my turning off my political brain. The eight years of W nearly destroyed it permanently. Thankfully, Obama came along and I’m happy to say, I’m once again interested in politics and what our government is doing (or not doing when the repubs have anything to say about it). Those two books sound useful – the kind we should all carry around when we are around any republicans.
Isn’t that kind of like she who shall not be named is treated.
Back in the late 60s, my family used to go camping in South Carolina. Every morning, the Krispy Kreme truck would roll up, and the local kids would load up their bike baskets with boxes of doughnuts and ride through the campground, calling out (in the most delicious southern accents) “KRISPY KREME!” I was the one sent out of the camper with the dollar (they were a dollar a dozen) every morning. Krispy Kreme doughnuts taste like childhood vacations to me.
One of Paula Deen’s favorites:
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/08/18/krispy-kreme-cheeseburger-health-foods-enemy-junkfoods-sweetheart
OMG my arteries just collapsed ready this.
Where’d they get the donuts from?? There’s isn’t a Krispy Kreme in AK I don’t think, so I am assuming they musta flew them in from some where…Seattle? Anyone know?? Wish I could go buy a box of them š
Fro those who cannot make the KK doughnut sale and who don’t have a KK shop nearby or if you just want to try your hand at making them yourselves, go to http://foodblogsearch.com/ and enter “Krispy Kreme recipes” and be prepared to be inundated with copy cat recipes. Not saying that they will all be good, but there are a lot to chose from.
Good luck to the Youth Group! I’d certainly buy a box if I weren’t over a thousand miles away.
Just opened an email from SaveOurEnvironment.org. Found the following good news:
“Shell’s CEO just announced that the company will not be drilling offshore in Alaska’s Arctic waters in 2011.
“This announcement comes just days after BP said that they were delaying their Liberty Island project until at least 2013.”
Small victories but any delay is a good delay, right (except Tom DeLay, of course)
The GOP freshmen in the House. Dumb and Dumber.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/4/941310/-GOP-WTF-Parade-on-health-care
The war on women by the R House is continuing. Gail Collins nails it over “The Siege of Planned Parenthood”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/opinion/05collins.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB
Cons are trying to ACORN this wonderful group out of existence.
This angers me to the point of boiling blood. I go to PP for all of my yearly checkups (Pap, breast exam, etc). And yes, for birth control. I pay $60 with insurance. Who knows what this would cost at a doctor’s office. And I get compassionate care from women. They found my high BP. They also saved my friend’s life with a free mammogram when she was unemployed. I donate to them every year. These bas*ards can all go straight to hel%!!!!
((((((LMD))))))) OK, now go hug a pup and the let’s start writing to everyone about this outrage. I left a message in the Daily Show forum asking for a segment on this nonsense.
PP is so important for our health care. The best thing we can do is shine a bright light on the lies being told about this fine organization.
Millions of women depend on PP to get exams and low cost birth control. We can’t let these Cons destroy this non profit option for so many women.
But it kinda makes sense from a evangelical, RWNJ perspective.
They place very little value on women’s lives and seem to feel that they’re easily replaced, so saving women from dying of diseases like those lady-type cancers just isn’t that important to them. After all, if you lose one wife, there’s always another one who can take her place.
They have no interest in promoting birth control because only Wicked Women need it. Remember, a woman’s REAL role is to provide lots and lots of babies for her husband and to take care of his every need. They shouldn’t be out in the workplace, stealing jobs from the (white Christian) men who deserve them. And if she’s not married…well, there’s obviously something wrong with her and she has no right to a s@x life (she might even be one of those horrid lezz-bee-an types!) And abstinence works really well for teenagers because all they have to do to control those hormone surges is to pray.
See, PP must be E V I L !!!
I don’t go to Planned Parenthood for anything, but I know that many women do. They provide valuable and affordable services. I just don’t understand the thinking of these nitwits who want to undo everything that was done for women in the last 50 years. I wish we could send them all back to the 19th century, which is where they seem to want to take the rest of us.
Excellent article by Collins – thanks for the link. And now we need to figure out how to make the rethugs move on to something that really is important. All they talked about was the economy and jobs when the rest of us were talking about health care. Now they want to undo any positive strides in health care and they don’t seem to give a flying fig about jobs.
JIMZMUM @10
Thanks for the web site. Amazing!!!!!!
I just bought some virtual donuts via pay pal over there >>>>>>>>>
Who knew they would taste as good as the originals but with none of those pesky little calories.
Perfect
After all the “paperwork was signed” and agreements were made, Wal-fn’-Mart changed their mind and said: “No, we don’t want you here”. The group then had to hustle and find a new location for this fundraiser. So…..many, many thanks to the Carrs/Safeway store for allowing them to set up and sell there!
Someday, somewhere, somehow, I’ll figure out what a Krispy Kreme is.
Yeah, I know it is store that sells, or makes donuts. …
Anywho, it does look like fun…
I looked it up.
http://www.krispykreme.com/doughnuts
Maybe it’s all the hype, but when I finally had one, I realized the bakery down the street made far better doughnuts. But I could force myself, since it’s a great fundraiser!
Did you have one right out of the oven? It makes a BIG difference.
When they’re cold, KKs taste pretty much like the glazed donuts I can get at Dunkin Donuts or my Wegmans bakery department, but warm, right out of the oven they just slide right down your gullet and settle happily on your hips.
The first few times I traveled to Alabama for work years ago, I kept hearing of these amazing Krispy Kremes. Unfortunately, during the special event I was there for, I had to leave the main location before the donuts arrived. Naturally, when I got back several hours later, there was nothing left but the empty box. Everyone was so busy that they kept forgetting to save me one.
Finally, after hearing about these things for ages, a box of fresh Krispy Kremes and I were in the same place at the same time. I realized, at that first bite melted in my mouth, that this was an encounter that my waistband was going to regret!
A few years later, a store opened up in one of the towns nearby but closed a couple of years later. Probably just as well!
This is amazing.
http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilfootage
That is amazing, Jimsmum, thanks. I hope you don’t mind, but loved it so much I borrowed it to post in the Forum’s Archeological thread. š
https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9195.msg126740/topicseen.html#new
wow. that is amazing.
I have read articles about this before only it involved Gold being dug out of the ground instead of logging although the forrest was destroyed by the people digging and the tribes where at times shot at and killed.this was a few years back.,Don’t remember for sure if it was Peru or not but I know it involved the rain forrest down there
I am not a fan for sweets, but when I travel, I never fail to stop at a Casey’s to get a donnut and coffee for the road.—-Good luck to the students!!!!!
If you buy a box of these donuts, before you eat one, zap it in the microwave for 8 seconds. Heaven!!
Excellent suggestion! Krispy Kreme to start off Superbowl Sunday (go Pack).
We got a Krispy Kreme franchise on Maui last year. It’s the only one in the Islands. Can’t believe we got it instead of Oahu. Anytime you go to the airport there are dozens of people carrying huge stacks of KK boxes. People fly here from the different islands just to get them for different occasions at their homes or businesses. Amazing!
I am not a huge fan of sweets, but I wish the children the best! Hope they sell out quickly.
Five inches of new snow. Imagine me sitting here squinty eyed teacher faced, ready to unload a teacher finger at the person responsible for this stinking weather. I am thinking it is somebody at the Weather Channel.
TCW? I hope you are getting better.
I would prefer more snow to the freezing rain we are receiving at the moment.
I second this. I’ll never complain about regular snow again. This ice crap has got to GO
I REALLY hate to mention this………. š but it was 72+ and sunny here on the Central Coast…suppose to last most of the week…. Ben runs as fast as he can thru a hail of snowballs……
Just went to Flip Burger for dinner last night…Krispy Kreme milkshake = Heaven!
Would it be wrong to say that I’d like to jump around in a vat full of a thousand dozen donuts? Nekkid?
yes
But fun!
Really, really wrong.
bad Ripley!!!….move over. make room for me please.
š to both you and Ripley!
Toooo toooo sticky!!!
LOL – quite a visual, there. I would be better off if I’d just jump around in a vat of doughnuts, but I wouldn’t be able to do it without eating a few – or a lot. And I don’t need to do that.
Not to diminish the importance of Krispy Kreme doughnuts this morning, but like these famous doughnuts, there is a politico familiar to this blog attempting to trademark her name.
Has anyone given any thought to what consequences there might be for usage of a trademarked name in the blogosphere? I do not know…
What did we use here long ago (it seems), “She Who Must Not Be Named – SWMNBN” or something similar? Like Voldemort, to say the name is to bring only more misfortune.
On the serious side, I was wondering that if this is approved, that royalties must be paid? Seems to me that if that royalty situation goes into effect, this may simply cause much of the media to ignore her. Of course, loss of her media exposure is no big deal to those of us here. The reasoning for doing such a thing also brings to mind this question: has any other politician ever done this? I’m under the impression that people with “something’ to sell can do this, as in physical goods, but intellectual property only? Is this akin to “pay me enough and I’ll endorse your cause?”
That might in fact be just like her, attempt to make money off of everyone else, and end up getting less attention. That’s Palin logic for ya, you betcha!
The use of the trademark is only in connection with her speaking engagements. Mentioning her name in a news article or blog post is not a violation. There are some good links on Talking Points Memo about this subject. In one of the comments there is a link to an article about a South Dakota rapist/politician who tried to use this ploy to thwart journalists. It didn’t work.
Thanks, Auntie Ruth. Trademark law is not one of my specialties.
Sarah Palin Trademark Rejected — For Lack Of Signature
(Ace attorney Thomas Van Flein screws up again ! )
Source: Talking Points Memo
Diane Bartz
Reuters US Online Report Politics News
Feb 04, 2011 19:27 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sarah Palin’s bid to trademark her name and that of her daughter, Bristol, ran into trouble at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because the application forms were unsigned, government records show.
Applications to trademark the names Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin, both for “motivational speaking services,” were filed on November 5 by the Palins’ longtime family attorney, Thomas Van Flein, but were quickly slapped down by a trademark examiner.
“Registration is refused because the applied-for mark, SARAH PALIN, consists of a name identifying a particular living individual whose consent to register the mark is not of record,” the patent agency said in an office action. “Please note this refusal will be withdrawn if applicant provides written consent from the individual identified in the applied-for mark,” the patent office said.
The office also said Palin’s application failed to show that her name had been used in commerce, which could also be grounds for rejection. Bristol Palin’s application also will need to be redone, according to a similar office action filed in her case.
Read more: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2011/02/palin_trademark…
well double dern…
I just bet “SarahPalinR” toilet paper and “BristolPalinR” condoms would have been a best seller at Walmart.
Is it wrong of me to hope that, if she ever gets brought up on criminal or civil charges, that she keeps Van Flea as her lawyer? As incompetent as he seems to be, she could get a very loooong sentence!!!!
What kind of knucklehead attorney files legal papers on behalf of a client without having that client sign them? The closest I’ve ever been to law school was to walk past the main building as I was crossing my college campus on the way to the parking lot. However, even I know that legal papers need to be signed by the parties involved!
I’m trying not to miss the closed Krispy Kreme less than a mile from my place with it’s tempting “Hot Now” sign as I dress for the gym and prepare my cleansing fruit smoothie.
Good luck to the kids for their trip to OR!
My daughter went to school at McGill. They had a crispy creme donuts factory in Montreal.
We would always bring back a couple of dozen donuts for us and friends.
We would always ask the men and women at the border crossing who we knew if they wanted some too!