UPDATE: It appears Edaily has caught on and replaced the graphic. Luckily, Media Daum still has it up–here’ a screenshot:
Link to a screenshot of the entire page.
ORIGINAL POST: Note to Edaily: If you’re going to rip off graphics from the ‘Net, you gotta be careful.
(Hat tip to reader)
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Saw that Naver graphic a couple of days ago, then passed by the Krispy Kreme in Lotte Dept. store in Seoul on Sunday–I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the line of people there. The ad must be true!
I’m so glad I don’t like donuts.
LOL! Oh man, I’d love to print that out and tape it to the counter at the Krispy Kreme here on Osan.
Hmmmm
This must be the work of Dave Chappelle.
This must be the work of Dave Chappelle.
I think it’s the work of Chris Rock:Krispy Kreme? Kracky Kreme. Krispy Kreme Donuts are so good, if I told you it had crack in it, you would be like, “I knew it was something in there. These donuts are too good. Got me going there at 4 o’clock in the morning going, ‘Come on, man, open up. Let me have at least one donut. I’ll do anything. I’ll suck your dick!’”
That should be the new slogan. Krispy Kreme: So good, you’ll suck a dick.I also like this quote from the same show, though it’s not donut-related:Bush did some things you could never get away with at your job. When Bush started his job, there was a budget surplus. Now there’s like a $70 trillion deficit. Now just imagine you worked at the Gap. You’re closing out your register and it’s $70 trillion short. The average person would get in trouble for that.
Then he started a war? Now just imagine you worked at the Gap. You’re $70 trillion behind on your register and you start a war with Banana Republic because you know they’re selling better tank tops than you. So now you’ve got employees bleeding all over the khakis. Then you finally take over Banana Republic and you find out they never made tank tops in the first place.It’s funny ‘cuz it’s true.
Them donuts is good, fo’ sure.
My first Krispy Kreme was when they arrived in St. Louis in 1999. I flew home to go to the NCAA regional championship with my father (Wally Sczerbiak had sunk the Washington Huskies) but earlier in the day I had gone to the Krispy Kreme that had opened up eight miles from our Kirkwood home.
Did you can save 50? on the second dozen donuts? Why, that makes it a no-brainer So I bought me two dozen. You get hungry on an eight-mile drive, and the donuts were hot and smelled great. So I ate one dozen (plus the free one they give you to cloud your judgment at the time of order) by the time I got home.
At the NCAA game that night, a double-header, for more than four hours of thrilling basketball all I could think of was “Donuts. Donuts. Donuts.” It really was like they had a narcotic in the icing.
I came back and wanted to get the franchise rights. But Krispy Kreme wants its area master franchisees to have a $3 million net worth. Maybe next year.
Brendon:
The 3 million ain’t nuttin’ compared to the vig you’d have to pay to the Korean troll under the bridge - name of Lotte - that you’d have to get the local rights from.
I am curious to know how much Lotte paid as the franchise fee; whatever it was, if all their locatons do as well as the Lotte Dept. Store location (which almost always has a long line), it was a steal.
Maybe I’ll find out in May — I’m speaking at the International Franchise Association’s legal symposium. I do a fair amount of franchise work myself, although it’s hardly lucrative yet. Hopefully there will be someone there from Krispy Kreme and I can find out whether they do sprinkle crack in the icing. Hopefully I won’t have to blow anyone to get that information…
Going by the Krispy Kreme donuts they sell on base here at Osan, I can’t for the life of me figure out what the big deal is. They’re extremely small, expensive (I think 99 cents for a glazed?) and taste like…any other donut I’ve ever eaten. But then again, I’m also not what you’d call a donut connoisseur so what do I know…
I saw how Krispy Kremes are made: they are deep-fried in shortening fat. I know that will clog up people’s arteries.
Deep-frying is a time-honored means of cooking. Europeans eat a ton of fried foods without weighing tons themselves. I think the secret is moderation (said the man who from time to time eats two dozen donuts).
i believe i heard a similar thing mentioned on a “sex and the city” episode about Krispy Kreme donuts and it was alluded to the “kreme” that can be sucked out of something else but sorry, i forgot what that something else was.
I guess I’m one of the few, but I don’t really like Krispy Kreme. I tried them for the first time here (never had them in the States) a few weeks ago, and they were way too sweet. We got three donuts because they were small, but I barely got through my one and a half. Are they really that good? I just don’t get it.
Suho1004, I’m with you that I don’t think they’re all that. Once they’ve cooled, Krispy Kremes aren’t really any better than, say, fresh but cooled Dragon Hill Lodge donuts.
I went out of my way in Vegas to go try Krispy Kreme, but they were just okay. They weren’t offering the fresh out of the oven donuts that I finally had a chance to try at Lotte in Myongdong a couple months ago. Those are great, but they are a bit over-sweet, and once they’ve cooled they’re just okay.
LOL! Thanks for posting this.
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