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Donut shops, EVERYWHERE!

joe stodge

Lads, I like donuts and all but what has happened to Dublin City?
there's donut shops everywhere!

I pass 5 on my way to work, they're popping up like poxy Starbucks!

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[Deleted User]

D3V!L wrote: »

Ahhh where do I start with this !! :rolleyes:

Hahahahahhahahahaha

If you can piece together a more succinct synopsis of irelands internet history during the 2000s I'd like to hear it!

theteal

laugh wrote: »

It takes 45 minutes just to get inside this place in Portland, Oregon at busy times.

'mericans init. Do they have anything with cheese on it?

Ubbquittious

MarkY91 wrote: »

Americanized.

Hmmm.

MarkY91

My foreign girlfriend said she noticed all the donut shops and said we are becoming Americanized. I then told her that we're becoming the fattest country in Europe. She wasn't surprised.

Ubbquittious

server down wrote: »

Yeh. When can we get a proper American diner

They'd be useless here because where would you get the big long wobbly colourful 1950's American car with 5.7L engine and 3-speed automatic gearbox that you'd need to visit one?

PandaPoo

OP if you don't like it then donut go in there.....sorry

My mam and brother like offbeat doughnuts in dundrum. Jesus the queue is insane when I go. I like their maple pecan one, tried a Boston creme too but the chocolate on top was sickeningly rich.

weldoninhio

server down wrote: »

Yeh. When can we get a proper American diner

Saw Simon Delaney on TV3 on Monday morning (I’d been watching the weather updates) and he was asking the same. Apparently his book is filled with diner meals.

D3V!L

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Well in Ireland wiress broadband became common in 2008. In 2006 and 2007 many had broadband through a wire to their desktop but 2008 was when wireless broadband became common. The internet was not used for hours a day like it is now before wireless broadband. In the days of dial-up download speeds were slow for most people and most people were worried about running up big bills so they limited internet usage. Broadband came to Ireland in 2003 but had low take-up until prices dropped. In 2000, 2001 internet usage per person per day was still very low from what I recall.

Ahhh where do I start with this !! :rolleyes:

Hahahahahhahahahaha

mojesius

I'd murder a donut right now

Canis Lupus

Donal55

GaGa21 wrote: »

Aungier Danger too.....the queues outside their newly opened shop for a free donut was sad. I do love donuts but not for 3euro.

You shudda put it on the Bargain Alerts thread. Plenty over there who would stand out in Hurricane Ophelia for a free donut.

TrustedApple

Donuts in cork there is loads of these places as well but in the last few months they have All started to close down as there is only so many donuts one can eat like!!!.

I have tryed loads of then and I am like meh I don't get the dad i reather cookies

Richard Hillman

A packet of custard donuts from Tesco for €1 is all I need in my life.

People paying €24 for 12, because marketing told them to :pac:

laugh

It takes 45 minutes just to get inside this place in Portland, Oregon at busy times.

suicide_circus

Shout out for the Nine One One Donut place under the UCD library back in the day.

FanadMan

Best ever donuts were the Lidl fresh cream and jam ones. Think the pack of 6 (or maybe 8) was about €3. Don't know if they are still doing them. The specialist shop ones are way overpriced.

Also, used to get the 5 pack of jam donuts in Tesco which were really nice. Now and again, there would be a bonus 6th one in the pack......was like winning the lotto

DivingDuck

SterlingArcher wrote: »

When will they come up with a trendy sugary snack that is made up of chocolate n seagull bits

Another one of those times I regret hitting "last page" instead of viewing the thread from the beginning...

I meant to try that donut place in Dundrum when I was there last. Was halfway home when I remembered and was actually annoyed with myself. Hope the fad doesn't pass until I can give them a go.

SterlingArcher

When will they come up with a trendy sugary snack that is made up of chocolate n seagull bits . Just getting rid of a large swat of annoying squawking birds and shoveling it into American accent irish birds gobs. Preferably till they choke on their turd helping while giving out to their other half that they need to start some other costly annual slim/quick /syn diet trend. thus killing two birds by adding another few stone.

Anyone for a junkie pot pie? Some kinda Sweeny todd like situation except all the rancid meat gets grinded up and fed to drug dealers in prison. That way they can literally feed off peoples misery.

Vote me to make sanity great again.

Realt Dearg Sec

anewme wrote: »

Before donuts, there was cupcakes! that fad seems to be almost gone thank God. Hated those cupcakes with the syntethic icing, what was wring with an aul fairy cake.

You beat me to it! This exact post was what I signed in to write. The ganky hyper sweet icing, all looks and no taste at all, the idea of a grown up actually wanting to eat anything that sickly without it being made trendy first...all they ever did was make me miss my Nana's fresh baked buns.

I'm away from home so I'm missing this fad but I'm assuming it went something like: someone realised that if you take a sugar and flour recipe, put something pretentious in the ingredients and make it look fancy, you can charge people through the nose for it and they'll be picking the crumbs out of their neckbeards and check shirts for ages. Then loads of copycats come along until the whole of Dublin looks like Springfield after homer gives away the recipe for flaming Moe's, then they start to close and soon everyone wonders how they ever paid a fiver for one of those.

I'm as guilty as anyone by the way, huge fan of the dublin burrito scene before I moved away.

As for the next fad, there is already a Cornish pasty place in Temple bar, used to be where little ass is now, but there's huge room for pretentious expansion of that.

My guess is, for desserts, churros: same ingredients as doughnuts (so plenty of mark up room) but with a hint of Europeanness and the option to put chili and chocolate together...

For mains...I'm thinking they'll ruin something like Irish stew or bacon and cabbage next.

Regarding American culture, someone mentioned diners, I fully agree. More especially, I'd like to see a place that specialises in American sandwiches, like Philly cheese, Italian beef, French dip, poboys, etc.

Not a hipster place, just a place that does some of these well without charging an arm and a leg, as is the case in America. If we're going to get America fat, we may do it right.

[Deleted User]

server down wrote: »

Jesus. Everybody thinks the internet didn’t get big until they started using it.

Well in Ireland wiress broadband became common in 2008. In 2006 and 2007 many had broadband through a wire to their desktop but 2008 was when wireless broadband became common. The internet was not used for hours a day like it is now before wireless broadband. In the days of dial-up download speeds were slow for most people and most people were worried about running up big bills so they limited internet usage. Broadband came to Ireland in 2003 but had low take-up until prices dropped. In 2000, 2001 internet usage per person per day was still very low from what I recall.

Rubberchikken

Load of these shops have popped up in cork city.
Tbh the doughnuts look awful. But then I don't eat doughnuts so maybe there's no appeal for me.

Arghus

Doughnuts are great. I fail to see the problem.

branie2

the police love doughnuts

server down

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Happy to see it. Makes a change from the self-absorbed self-improvement and physique-concerned food culture of the 2010s. Long live the carefree days of the 90s and 2000s when nobody was informed on nutrition because the Internet didn't get that big until 2008.

Jesus. Everybody thinks the internet didn’t get big until they started using it.

[Deleted User]

Happy to see it. Makes a change from the self-absorbed self-improvement and physique-concerned food culture of the 2010s. Long live the carefree days of the 90s and 2000s when nobody was informed on nutrition because the Internet didn't get that big until 2008.

server down

Bob24 wrote: »

What’s happening is Ireland is largely obsessed with and influenced by America (and we are not necessarily taking the best parts of it).

Yeh. When can we get a proper American diner

Are Am Eye

If you're ever of a mind to watch a movie about donuts then one of the better ones is The Doughnuts

anewme

sugarman wrote: »

Just another trend, first it was Burritos... then Burgers ...now Donuts

Before donuts, there was cupcakes! that fad seems to be almost gone thank God. Hated those cupcakes with the syntethic icing, what was wring with an aul fairy cake.

wakka12

I much prefer the old jam donut with sugar on top to all the ones with crazy toppings

GaGa21

Aungier Danger too.....the queues outside their newly opened shop for a free donut was sad. I do love donuts but not for 3euro.