{"id":40673,"date":"2004-02-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/02\/11\/dunkin-donuts-vs-krispy-kreme\/"},"modified":"2004-02-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T07:00:00","slug":"dunkin-donuts-vs-krispy-kreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040211-00\/?p=40673","title":{"rendered":"Dunkin Donuts vs. Krispy Kreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having grown up on the east coast, I imprinted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunkindonuts.com\/\">Dunkin Donuts<\/a>. Once a month we would stop at DD on the way home and buy a shoebox of doughnuts.  Toasted coconut and butternut, those were my favorites.\n Ironically, Dunkin Donuts is really a coffee shop disguised as a doughnut shop.  (Doughnuts account for only 20% of their sales; coffee 50%.)\n So during my travels through Manhattan, I walked past one of the twenty-five zillion Dunkin Donuts stores there and popped in for a toasted coconut doughnut. One bite and I was a little kid again.\n Some people say that DD&#8217;s doughnuts are awful, but that&#8217;s pretty much irrelevant to me by now. It&#8217;s all about the memories that are invoked.<\/p>\n<p> And besides, those people are wrong. I don&#8217;t understand the appeal of KK donuts. They have no flavor; it&#8217;s just sugar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having grown up on the east coast, I imprinted on Dunkin Donuts. Once a month we would stop at DD on the way home and buy a shoebox of doughnuts. Toasted coconut and butternut, those were my favorites. Ironically, Dunkin Donuts is really a coffee shop disguised as a doughnut shop. (Doughnuts account for only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Having grown up on the east coast, I imprinted on Dunkin Donuts. Once a month we would stop at DD on the way home and buy a shoebox of doughnuts. Toasted coconut and butternut, those were my favorites. Ironically, Dunkin Donuts is really a coffee shop disguised as a doughnut shop. (Doughnuts account for only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}