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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 8823558)

I doubt they'll notice one less customer, but that's OK by me.

Your heart and associated parts will thank you.

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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile (Post 8823978)

Know what I like best about Dunkin Donuts?

Driving by without stopping.

They suck. I don't understand for the life of me why they're so popular around these parts. Just upchuck-in-your-mouth-a-little terrible. Okay, back to the subject at hand...

It sounds like the popo are finally getting a bit of comeuppance. After years of "protecting and serving" the public by constantly thinking they walk on water, breaking the laws they claim to uphold, treating everyone like a criminal and being glorified tax collectors for fiscally reckless municipalities people are starting to get sick of it. I'm not saying all cops are bad (or good) but there's definitely been a shift in recent years away from being able to automatically assume that the cops are always the "good guys" by default. Corruption, self-serving attitudes (enabled by the police unions), trigger-happy, paramilitary responses to minor incidents, disproportionate racial and class "enforcement" of laws and one of the highest rates of police homicide in the world contribute to this. The fact that we have too many (stupid) laws on the books that enable creation of a de facto police state these days doesn't help. When I was a kid, the cops were always the good guys and could always be counted on to selflessly protect the public from bona fide crime - no more.

Here's a pointer to the LEO types out there - respect is EARNED. You're not entitled to it just because you wear a badge or a uniform. Stop treating the public like you do and reach out in a positive way to the community, do your jobs, keep people safe, care about peoples' problems and work WITH them to help solve them and we'll respect you for doing the hard job of dealing with real criminals and hard situations. When most peoples' only contact with the police is seeing them sit on their asses on the side of the road with a radar gun or "enforcing" some ricky-tack law (moneymaking scheme) like front license plates or broken taillights or whatever - and when so many seem to like to play "Rambo dress up" in tactical gear and act "hoo-rah" all the time, is it any wonder people are starting to push back and not respect you?

Just something to consider. A little public perception goes a long way. Put that whole "protect and serve" thing into practice and walk the walk - it'll probably help.

And as to the above - I completely agree. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. A friend of mine was shot dead at his workplace a few years ago by two out-on-parole thugs. The police eventually showed up and took pictures and wrote a nice report. I'm not saying the police can or should be everywhere all the time, but this is just one example of why we need CCW a lot more than we have out there.

Yup.

First: I doubt any fast food chain can micro mange their minimum wage employees as to if the want to write nasty things on your coffee cup. (see: youtube of Beavis and Butt-head working in a fast food establishment).
Second: If you can't find better donuts than DD you are just not trying.

4 D's..........DON'T DO DUNKIN DONUTS !

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Originally Posted by FLYGEEZER (Post 8824227)

4 D's..........DON'T DO DUNKIN DONUTS !

Like it :)

Dunkin Donuts used to be good. In the 70s, they made the donuts in the shops, at least they did in Middletown, CT. And their coffee was good in the 90s, went every day at 5:30AM to get a coffee before getting on the water coaching rowing.

Today their coffee is water. And I always think of their food as a loose collection of chemicals with a binder and some color to make it look like something. It's all manufactured food, I have no idea who eats it but there are so many fat people in this country, they must be doing something right.

But I agree with Sammy. It's always best to blame and hate an entire corporation purely for the actions of 1 person in 1 franchise.

Hate and fat are America's addictions.

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Originally Posted by afterburn 549 (Post 8824310)

Did not the corporation hire them?

No, the franchise did.

But by extension, using your "logic," why do you hate the U.S. Army for what Bowe Berdahl did.

See how that works?

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 (Post 8824317)

No, the franchise did.

But by extension, using your "logic," why do you hate the U.S. Army for what Bowe Berdahl did.

See how that works?

Logic < emotion, Shaun

I can't even remember the last time I ate a donut. I sort of am partial to French press coffee myself, but settle for using one of those single serving deals at the office because it is basically zero maint. When I get donuts to take to the nurses, I go to Richards at Manzanita and Winding

French press got a little crack in it, so the K cup deal is what I used to replace it. Actually, the McD's across the street has surprisingly good coffee too.

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 (Post 8824293)

my stepdad's (and dad's) friend owned Dunkin Donut shops throughout El Paso. he would hand us kids stacks of "free dozen" cards. STACKS!! we would run some cross country, or do something exercisey, and it never failed..someone would remember my stack of cards. if you never seen a bunch of eighth graders mowing down boxes of donuts..we would bike to the nearest store.

to this day, i still cannot eat a dunkin donut. i kinda remember them being good. i als remember when they started selling clam chowder..but that was when the old man had passed already.

oh, crispy kreme donuts are tough to swallow for me now..they are so sweet!!

it's not dunkin's fault the dumbass did what he/she did.

now if you are against dunkin because they are making our country fat then that's legit.

I did the opposite last night. was talking to a police chief from a rough town (at least for our area) and I said 'you go out there and kick ass and bust heads all you need buddy! I for one support you'.

Now, that there was funny, M.D. !!

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 (Post 8824293)

Just like Subway.

GROSS...

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6 (Post 8824293)

Much like Starbucks... my friend was commenting oh how he used to love stopping for a cup of coffee and a croissant... now he goes to the local donut shop for coffee and a croissant because, well... they make the croissant there and thus it tastes better... and cost half as much.
Step into any Starbucks and you will see the same collection of pastries that are no doubt made in a factory and shipped out to the shops.

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Originally Posted by scottmandue (Post 8824519)

Step into any Starbucks and you will see the same collection of pastries that are no doubt made in a factory and shipped out to the shops.

And may be several days old. Starbucks is just awful!

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Originally Posted by afterburn 549 (Post 8824310)

Did not the corporation hire them?

Correct, they reflect the community they live in, high crime area that thinks if someone is Black, they should be given a pass when they break the law, threaten, attack LEOs, will have racist POS punks like that behind the counter.
With any luck, that DD will be held up at gunpoint and the cops will be at Krispy Kreme and take their time.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1444155553.jpg

My wife and I stopped in a newfangled dunkin donuts recently(mistake #1). We stopped there because it was the only place open (mistake #2-just because it is open, doesn't mean it should be) It was modeled in a more sophisticated setup to compete with starbucks. They had branched out into various coffees, panera bread store type food, and donuts. It sure LOOKED sophisticated enough(Mistake #3- using decor to establish a joint's credibility).

We were really hungry and desperate:
We (Mistake #4-Ordering something out of the restaurant's usual offerings) ordered food. My wife got a chicken sandwich. My daughter got a Grilled cheese sandwich, and a donut. I got a diet pepsi.

My wife took not 1/2 a bite of the sandwich and puked it all over the table. Upset with her drama, I said "that can't be that bad" and grabbed the remaining sandwich as she performed a self induced heimlich maneuver.

Using appropriate skills from my days in chemistry (don't stick your nose in something- stand back, and waft the air over to your nose by using your hand) discovered she was right. Good God- it was rancid, like 1/2 rotten road kill rancid.

"Jesus Christ!" I exclaimed.
"SEE!!!" she gasped, with tears flooding her bloodshot eyes, as she pounded the table with fist of rage.

She couldn't eat, so I grabbed my daughters grilled cheese. "How bad can you F$%# up a grilled cheese?" I wondered.

Evidently- pretty bad. The bread smelled like 1 week old bread scooped off the ground at a local dump. IT SMELLED LIKE A ROTTING GARBAGE DUMP.

We were pretty starved- so in an act of survival, we cut up the remaining donut 3 ways and that was our lunch. (mistake #5- we should have NEVER done that after the above)

Darwinism in action. Of course the stuff is rotten- they only sell donuts. The alternate food had been sitting for weeks. We should've been dead- yet were spared the fate we deserved. Sometimes in evolution- it isn't survival of the fittest, it is survival of the fortunate.

We were fortunate.
NEVER ORDER FOOD AT A DUNKIN DONUTS

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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951 (Post 8824623)

Dude!
There wasn't a 7/11 or Jack in the box in the vicinity? (Both poor food choices but at least they have enough turnover that you won't get rotten food)

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Originally Posted by scottmandue (Post 8824689)

Dude!
There wasn't a 7/11 or Jack in the box in the vicinity? (Both poor food choices but at least they have enough turnover that you won't get rotten food)

yup- there was a 7-11 right down the road which we joked about later. A day old rotating hot dog would have been a godsend! :mad:

This was not one of our prouder moments. I only share it in the altruistic interest of potentially saving someone's life.