War Room Lounge v159: Starbucks vs Dunkin Donuts

[Andy Capp]

ahh I know man, I have way too many notifications from so many people... I appreciate the love though, no question.

I always go on breaks at least once a year, this time around I got caught up with some IRL bullshit.

I'll be checking in every few days or so.

thanks again, & my bad for ghosting like that.

Well, like every Lassie movie ever, we're just glad you're back safe and sound, Timmy.

 

[Andy Capp]

Lobster roll imo

Weirdly, I don't know how to respond LOL

I feel like the mot juste exists but just won't come to me. Perhaps the best response is

 

[curryjunkie]

So we’re just gonna overlook China’s involvement in the Korean War, Vietnam War, later Sino-Vietnamese war, support of Khmer Rouge, re-education camps, genocides of the Uyghur, Falun Gong and Tibetan Buddhists, one-child policy, complete suppression of free speech/press, severe lack of worker’s rights, lack of any independent judiciary or due process...

Im not going to defend the invasion of Iraq or Vietnam War, but overall it isn’t close to me.

China isn't holding themselves up as beacons of liberty and justice either...

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Do we have any Scottish posters here?

 

[tonni]

Do we have any Scottish posters here?

@KnightTemplar

 

[Wet Blanket]

Everyone I know that prefers McDonalds to Timmies takes their coffee with cream and sugar, which of course nullifies the validity of their opinion.

Drinking Timmies black is pretty effing gross.

The "dark roast" is slightly more tolerable.

 

[Andy Capp]

Oh I’m no surprised one bit. I just can’t believe how ballsy a move that is. Here do these crimes and I’ll pardon you.

Quid pro quo? Say it ain't so.

This is one reason why I always wondered at the attitude that Trump can't do too much damage to democracy because checks and balances. He fires people until he gets the ones that do his bidding in place and checks and balances start flying out the window. For evidence just look at the Attorney General, the FDA, the EPA, Dept of State, and so on.

 

[Sketch]

ahh I know man, I have way too many notifications from so many people... I appreciate the love though, no question.

I always go on breaks at least once a year, this time around I got caught up with some IRL bullshit.

I'll be checking in every few days or so.

thanks again, & my bad for ghosting like that.

Glad to have you back mang. Hope you got some stuff sorted while you were away. Here, have a donut on me.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Do we have any Scottish posters here?

Fuck me, it took me a couple of minutes to translate that into English. Whoever that guy is, he needs to put down the bottle of Buckfast and step away from the computer.

 

[JDragon]

Wow I didn't think there would be a split by intelligence in the poll

 

[JDragon]

I voted DD even though I have never had it before

How are you doing?

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Fuck me, it took me a couple of minutes to translate that into English. Whoever that guy is, he needs to put down the bottle of Buckfast and step away from the computer.

That's some funny fucking shit imo

 

[PalmaSoriano]

@sickc0d3r

Yes! I know that place, I’ve passed by it a couple times. Love the Grand Case Beach Club and speaking of St. Barths as soon as I can (I believe they open in October) the first destination I want to visit is Eden Rock. It’s like the Grand Case Beach Cub on tren

 

[Trotsky]

This. Dunkies isn’t the best coffee, but their breakfast items blow Starbucks out of the water.
WA is Starbucks country and it pisses me off, especially coming from Boston. For the quintessential Boston experience, you gotta go to the Dunks across the street from the Andrew T-stop at 7am and watch the folks coming out of the methadone clinic.

This is the hottest take so far. Dunkin's food items suck. ESPECIALLY, their Boston Cream. It's my favorite donut but at Dunkin it's always dry and with not nearly enough filling.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Voted Starbucks because we don't have a DD in my city.

 

[HockeyBjj]

Holy shit. Kenosha really isn’t Chicago or Milwaukee. It’s a uppy area on Lake Michigan between the two full of over priced coffee shops

But there’s a vid of a guy with a flaming Molotov cocktail chasing another guy with an AK. Guy throws Molotov. AK guy stops and turns and shoots him.

That’s some Wild West shit

 

[Andy Capp]

I don't know if DD coffee is different elsewhere than it was during its short-lived time here in PEI, but back then it really sucked bad. It was weak and always tasted like it had been stirred with a pencil. But holy shit their go cups were fucking sturdy. I dropped a large one on the ground one time and the bottom deformed but didn't burst. It only had the slightest of slow leaks so it stayed pretty much intact until I could pour it into another cup. Tim Horton's by contrast, if you drop your coffee, well, I hope you enjoy those wet shoes. It always struck me as the funniest dichotomy. TH coffee was far superior at that time, especially, but man their cups suck so bad. For a little while they came out with these cheap re-usable plastic cups that were fucking ideal so of course they discontinued them.

 

[Fawlty]

Holy shit. Kenosha really isn’t Chicago or Milwaukee. It’s a uppy area on Lake Michigan between the two full of over priced coffee shops

But there’s a vid of a guy with a flaming Molotov cocktail chasing another guy with an AK. Guy throws Molotov. AK guy stops and turns and shoots him.

That’s some Wild West shit

This Starbucks vs Dunkin' Donuts war is taking a toll on all of us, bud.

 

[Andy Capp]

This is the hottest take so far. Dunkin's food items suck. ESPECIALLY, their Boston Cream. It's my favorite donut but at Dunkin it's always dry and with not nearly enough filling.

Annnnd right on cue...
If there's anything good inside a Dunkin Donuts it sure as hell isn't their coffee.*


*Disclaimer: all my criticisms of DD are based upon decades-old experiences. Like Dominoes, and Robins, it seems likely they finally improved their products eventually. Robins is another TIm Horton's clone, and their coffee used to be really cheap but correspondingly bad, like I said DD was, but they got much better in the last 5 years or so.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

I like DD donuts enough but I just get glazed Munchkins.

Their hash browns are worse than McDonalds and BK (or HJ for our Aussie friends). McDonald's and BK also have superior breakfast sandwiches.