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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

'Glazed Donut Melt' Issue Needs A Federal Grant

Posted Monday, February 8, 2010, at 12:00 AM

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  • Years ago had to ban donuts from my diet. A matterr of survival.

    -- Posted by voyager on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 7:31 AM
  • Thanks Nil, that's a fantastic name for the study. I completely forgot to translate it into bureaucrat-speak. It would only be more perfect if it spelled out an easy to remember acronym like D.O.N.U.T.

    Rick, I know that gravity sucks, but it seems to suck worse with glazed donuts. I don't know the composition of the icing that is troweled onto a lot of cake donuts but it only melts off if you leave it in the microwave on high about a minute.

    Looks like the closest Krispy Kreme is in St. Louis, Me'Lange. For a while Rhodes had Krispy Kreme donuts at their stores, although they weren't the same as getting them from KK.

    I saw them make a delivery one evening with the KK donuts for the next day. Krispy Kreme's donuts are best served hot, in my opinion.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 8:49 AM
  • Uggghhhh, I have made that trip many times for fundraisers. The whole back of my van filled with that smell, boxes upon boxes of donuts. I still can't eat one. ;o)

    Brad....how about you turn the donut box upside down and warm them in the microwave. Just a thought.

    -- Posted by Turnip on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 2:28 PM
  • Clever Turnip. Your upside-down solution is definitely out-of-the-box thinking.

    TFR

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 3:00 PM
  • I was thinking you need a type of rotissere (spelling?) system. You could place the box in a holder that slowly rotates until you want a donut.

    The glaze would be too confused over "which direction to melt" and would stay ON the donuts.

    Dang. I just anthropomorphized donut glaze....I didn't know that was even possible!

    -- Posted by Eliza on Mon, Feb 8, 2010, at 8:14 PM
  • Brad, does this mean I can be the GDM czar? ☻

    -- Posted by Turnip on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 10:32 AM
  • That's also a good suggestion Eliza. If we keep the donuts slowly turning, they may melt, but they will melt onto themselves.

    Turnip, if we can get funding, I'm positive there will be a need for a GDM Czar. Although, you might have competition if Al gets wind of it.

    TFR

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 10:44 AM
  • Wonderful! This is right there next to "I think therefore I am." You just need to write it on a wall, stone tablets of something so that you will be famous beyond your wildest dreams when an anthropologist discovers that great ancient civilization in Cape Girardeau.

    -- Posted by IonU on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 12:59 PM
  • Eat em while hot and fresh right out of the cooker.That solves the problem

    SO...

    Some real entrepeneur should get a KK franchise for Cape (or if they have to copy the KK way), locate the business down on Broadway near SEMO, Have a drive up window and also offer an attractive and comfortable dining room as well as a take out counter. Sell gourmet coffee and other soft drinks, offer a free wi-fi. This would be one business that would be a sure fire winner.

    Maybe even you ought to put a word in Brian Birdwell's ear. Duncan Donuts hasn't done so badly, you know, but KK is a whole new ballgame for Cape.

    -- Posted by voyager on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 1:46 PM
  • I meant Blackwell! Sorry about that Brian.

    -- Posted by voyager on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 1:49 PM
  • I did a little searching and was surprised to find that Dunkin' Donuts has been gone from the St. Louis market, but is now re-entering that market.

    DD had a store near where I lived in St. Louis 20 years ago. Not sure why they pulled out of the market. St Louis is not what you call a "health conscious" metropolitan area.

    I would love to have a DD here in Cape or a Tim Horton's. That's Canada's answer to Dunkin' Donuts. They're pushing into the Northeast US, but haven't gotten this far south.

    Personally, I'd be good with any donut shop.

    I'm still POed the University for tearing down the only one in town for parking!

    **** them to Hell! (where, of course, Hell is a place without donuts).

    TFR

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 3:59 PM
  • I rembember someone getting funding to study why catsup is hard to get moving and then moves too fast. And I thought it was nice of Sam's Club in Cape to let the children sell Krispy Kreme in front of their store considering they also sell donuts. Can you get a government grant to study government grants?

    -- Posted by Old John on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 7:12 PM
  • Old John, you just asked the pregnant question!

    -- Posted by voyager on Tue, Feb 9, 2010, at 11:35 PM