A Courtesy Alert to My Fellow Travelers

There are NO …

*%$@#
DUNKIN’ DONUTS

…in Indianapolis either.

categories Public Service Announcement | | datetime September 6, 2006 7:41 pm

20 Responses to “A Courtesy Alert to My Fellow Travelers”

  1. Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life says:
    September 6, 2006 at 8:12 pm

    I bet there’s a Winchell’s.

  2. tree hugging sister says:
    September 6, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    Don’t recall seeing one, but it was hard to read the Yellow Pages considering the angry glaze over my eyes. The one consoling thing was all the KK’s were gone too. I couldn’t stand it otherwise.

  3. The_Real_JeffS says:
    September 6, 2006 at 11:54 pm

    Now that I think about, I saw a Dunkins when I was in Kumomato, Japan, for an exercise back in 2000.
    But maybe it’s closed down since then.

  4. getalifeagain says:
    September 7, 2006 at 6:41 am

    I like the coffee.

  5. John says:
    September 7, 2006 at 8:26 am

    Jeff_S : No longer. They are only in Korea, now:
    It is perhaps useful to note that US doughnut giant Dunkin Donuts had an unsuccessful stint in Japan in the 1970s before pulling out. Despite a global presence spanning at least 30 different countries, South Korea is the only nation in East Asia that continues to boast Dunkin Donuts shops. The viability of the business in the region is questionable.
    Mister Donut is all over the place in Japan, and moving into Taiwan, though. There used to be a Mister Donut at my train station in Yoyogi.
    And I can’t get to work in the morning without having to crawl around the slow-coach Yankees (on whose vehicles turn signals were obviously optional) creeping into Dunkin to get their coffee. THS – you want I shoud send you one of the four Dunkins within 10 minutes of my house?

  6. John says:
    September 7, 2006 at 9:31 am

    THS – Dotour has introduced bagels!

  7. The_Real_JeffS says:
    September 7, 2006 at 9:39 am

    Interesting, John. Perhaps we are witnessing the worldwide demise of Dunkin Doughnuts? Soon to be completely extinct, much like the Dodo bird?

  8. Mr. Bingley says:
    September 7, 2006 at 9:47 am

    No, Dunkin’s doing quite well in the non-THS markets.

  9. The_Real_JeffS says:
    September 7, 2006 at 10:57 am

    Mr. Bingley, are you saying that THS is a sort of anti-DD pestidicide? Or might that be “DD-icide”?

  10. Nightfly says:
    September 7, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    We have ’em all over the place up here. They’ve been merging with the Baskin-Robbins shops and spawning drive-throughs.

  11. tree hugging sister says:
    September 7, 2006 at 7:27 pm

    (You smug BASTARDS MOCKING my PAIN! A chocolate filled greasy curse upon your yeasty blather.)
    Bagels, hmmm?

  12. John says:
    September 7, 2006 at 8:10 pm

    I was wrong. There are five Dunkin’s within a 10 minute drive of my house – I forgot the one inside the local supermarket. 😉
    I loved Doutor’s baguettes when I was over there. The bagels ought to be at least passable.

  13. tree hugging sister says:
    September 7, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    INSIDE ??!!!!
    Despicable.

  14. The_Real_JeffS says:
    September 7, 2006 at 11:44 pm

    That’s pretty cool, John. Send THS some pictures to post here, would you? ;-P

  15. tree hugging sister says:
    September 8, 2006 at 12:26 am

    (It’s a LUCKY DAMN THING a certain doggie don’t need no cookies sent to him no mo…)

  16. John says:
    September 8, 2006 at 12:42 am

    Actually, I prefer that supermarket chain’s own donuts, in the stores where they have their own bakery and don’t farm it out to Dunkin’. That’s why I forgot about that one. I go to the one across the river with its own bakery – to avoid the ubiquitous Dunkin’. 😉

  17. The_Real_JeffS says:
    September 8, 2006 at 1:21 am

    Ah, those cookies! Yum! Such memories, fighting off the other troops for the remaining crumbs……

  18. John says:
    September 8, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    THS – I forgot to mention that Dunkin’ pays for a little metal coffee cup holder that clips onto the push bar of the shopping carts, so that you can get your coffee and donunt, then enjoy them while shopping. Shouldn’t grocery shop while hungry, right?

  19. tree hugging sister says:
    September 8, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    You are a sick…SICK man.
    I thought we were friends

  20. John says:
    September 8, 2006 at 11:33 pm

    You are a sick…SICK man.
    What, did you think I was kidding?

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