read in the paper this morn about plans to bring in krispy kreme to melbourne this year... i for one condemn this move and would advise everyone to avoid this scourge...not to get all soapboxy about it but if there's one thing we don't need is another american multinational sponging off our sugar dependency! and to be quite honest the donuts aren't even that great - just deathdefyingly, tooth-achingly & enamel-erodingly sweet. where they get you is with the free sample donut they give you while you're waiting in line to order. i know what you're thinking: "hah! i'm eating my freebie donut and hightailing it out of there with nary a dent in my hip pocket!" WRONG MY FRIEND! what happens is this cynically Pavlovian marketing ploy is designed to sensitise your salivary glands such that you are compelled to have more, more, MORE - next thing you know you're out the door with dozen boxes of assorted donuts wondering when the lapse of decency occurred!!! don't believe me? ask yourself what prompts sensible humans coming from sydney to inflate their carry-on luggage quota with boxes of the stuff just cause sydney is "blessed" with a KK outlet at the airport? when i lived in calgary a few years ago a KK opened one weekend with much fanfare (nevermind that calgary like most canadian cities has a tim hortons on nearly every corner), complete with long lines, traffic jams, fisticuffs and even a silly old fool who came down from edmonton to camp outside the store a week in advance from its grand opening. KK is anticipated to grace our fair city sometime in june this year and is rumoured to be plonked down somewhere in outer suburbia....i now hold grave concerns for the orthodontic and metabolic future of my fellow citizens of melbourne if this corporate sugarlord is allowed to infect our populace with this corn syrup ensmothered scourge...don't say i didn't warn you!!!
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... aah, that's a brilliant analysis which does indeed reveal the true evil of the Krispy Kreme Konglomerate (hey, i know it's spelt with a "c" but how else could i incorporate the acronym KKK??). you probably already know this, but i heard a murmur that krispy kreme is actually in the financial poo at the moment - if that's the case, then hopefully that'll render us with a brighter metabolic future indeed ;-)
can't believe i overlooked this post on my previous visits - it's great!
i was not aware of that! oh those poor folks out at fountain gate (where the kk(k) is rumoured to set up shop) they're gonna be spitting chips! hey its for the best!
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