Krispy no more.

[gallianoparfait]

Just a handful of years ago the first Krispy Kreme doughnut store arrived in my state of Rhode Island amid loud fanfare and hoopla. For weeks on end folks drove to the new Mecca of the Doughnut Hole in Cranston. As did I with a friend. If you were lucky enough to find a parking place, you would go in and watch an assembly line of sugar-glazed

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[ugotogal]

Same thing happened here. The myth swarmed around our town for about a year. The shops (there were two!) opened and it is all everyone talked about for months.

Now they are gone. With no fuss. Just gone.

I have never had a Krispy Kreme donut. I just never cared enough to try one. So I don't feel like I missed out on anything, but the whole one-day-it's-the-craze-one-day-it's-gone issue is very strange, indeed.

About a year ago, we got a franchise of the California In-N-Out Burger. That was the headline of our local paper for days. Three-hour waits for a hamburger! I still haven't even driven past the shop. No idea what the status is now.

Three-hour waits for a hamburger!

[gallianoparfait]

Haha! That's absurd. I mean, how good can a hamburger be? Sometimes we Americans (Wii Americans?) go apeshit in pursuit of the latest faddish novelty which turns out to be hype as airy and empty as a Krispy Kreme donut.

Re: Three-hour waits for a hamburger!

[bilan]

In-N-Out's cult persists, though, far beyond store openings. People from the west coast insist it's the greatest burger in existence and you can't get fast food of that quality anywhere else. People on the east coast have no idea what they're talking about. Personally, I doubt it could be better fast food than Five Guys, but I doubt that any fast food could be better than Five Guys so it's sort of irrelevant to me anyway.

Of course, I don't think there are any Five Guys stores in New England either, so maybe this was irrelevant to everyone!

For the record, the Krispy Kreme stores in Mass had the exact same thing happen. The one in the Pru attracted a lot of gawkers at the doughnut-making process, but not a lot of people eating doughnuts. Who could blame them? I don't mind a hot, fresh one every now and then, but when they sit at room temperature they're the same if not worse than everyone else's. And the lack of variety, as you mentioned, gave people little other reason to go there! Both are gone. No one seems to be mourning.

Re: Three-hour waits for a hamburger!

[gallianoparfait]

Last week I saw some guys eating hamburgers outside of Quincy Market. They were among the most astonishing burgers I have seen, big and juicy on what looked like onion buns (sounds pornographic), accompanied by wide fries. Any idea what that place is?

In Rhode Island the best burgers are to be had a Cranston's Twin Oaks Restaurant. I especially like the bacon cheeseburgers and the Canadian burgers. They also have a terrific cheeseburger club.

But I rarely eat burgers...and when I do I eat them rarely, so to speak.

Cheers.

Re: Three-hour waits for a hamburger!

[allan138]

I would never think to order a hamburger at Twin Oaks. I'll do it next time.

Re: Three-hour waits for a hamburger!

[gallianoparfait]

Stanley's in Central Falls (and now off Point Street as well) has a following for its burgers. I've seen them but never had one, and while they are hand-made, they look like they suck in comparison with a medium-rare or rare Twinoaksbaconburgerwithcheese. Ted loved their Canadian burgers at midnight accompanied by a stinger or two and a copped feel under the table.