Comments on: Something must be done

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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:08:12 +0000

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by: Rob Jensen (ShutUpRob)

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:09:11 +0000

Cary: “I should set you with my aunt Priscilla. She drinks those Crackacchinos by THE CASE!! While I was visiting her in NM she would go to Costco’s and buy three cases: one of each flavor. I soon got a knack for them too - but I had to ween myself off them - caffaine doesn’t make me a stable human being.”

Well, I wasn’t particularly stable to begin with. But I did make myself do one very significant thing so that I could keep up my Crackaccino habit:

I cut all other caffeine out of my diet. Which means caffeinated soda, as I don’t generally drink coffee. Taking caff soda out of my diet leaves me more than enough room for 2-3 Crackaccinos a day, and even the occasional made-to-order mocha frappucino at a real Starbucks. Usually during my trip Comic-Con, either at the convention center — of course — or from the kiosks at Airports.

Interesting thing, too. Now even a 20-ounce bottle of regular Coke or Pepsi gives me jitters and makes me stay awake all night. Just a third Crackaccino doesn’t. Either the mocha and the milk take the edge off the caffeine in a Crackaccino or Coke and Pepsi have waaaaay more caffeine. Like, triple espresso-level caffeine.

And, oh, yes, I loved getting those 12-bottle slabs of the stuff when I lived in San Diego. Now I live in Central MO and the closest CostCos are in Kansas City and St. Louis — 2 hour drives one way in either direction. ANd prices just went up 40-cents a four-pack at Tarzhay and the Wal-Borg Continuum. Sigh. I miss CostCo.

— Rob

by: Cary Coatney

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:22:32 +0000

Hey Rob Jensen: I should set you with my aunt Priscilla. She drinks those Crackacchinos by THE CASE!! While I was visiting her in NM she would go to Costco’s and buy three cases: one of each flavor. I soon got a knack for them too - but I had to ween myself off them - caffaine doesn’t make me a stable human being-

However Jimmy P - I love Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s the only east coast franchise I miss most. I think their sugar powered chocolate icing filled donuts are to die for. That along with White Castle hamburgers, Roy Rogers roast beef sandwiches, drake’s cakes Devil Dogs, fruit pies, Chocolate Bosco Syrup ( created by my grandfather, believe it or not) and WISE potato chips, and sweet New Jersey white corn

And since I haven’t been back to the east coast in ten years, deprived of all this east coast health food- I must be dying very slowly.

Coat

by: Bill D.

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:36:12 +0000

Tim Horton’s is indeed the awesome, but be careful where you vocalize any sort of distaste for Dunkin Donuts coffee. Here in Rhode Island, you can legally be killed for dissing the DD.

I’m only partially joking about that. Rhode Islanders are practically evangelical in their devotion to Dunkin Donuts coffee.

by: Rich

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:18:26 +0000

Steve, that’s the one. Right next door to Taco Stand, across from the florist.

by: Steve Taylor

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:19:16 +0000

RICH!!!!!
You’re talking about the DD that was next to the Taco Stand, right!!!!
When we evacuated from N.O.,…during the whole Katrina unpleasantness,…we made our way to Athens,…I became addicted to Jittery Joe’s Iced coffee with a shot of vanilla. I have been pining for it ever since. But then, we were staying pretty close to Alps Road.

by: The Beat

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:37:01 +0000

Tim Horton’s is AMAZING.

by: Al

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:21:06 +0000

Around here, it ’s Tim Horton’s, over and over.

by: Rich

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:50:29 +0000

The Dunkin Donuts here in Athens had AWESOME coffee ten years ago. Sincerely, it was pretty much the best and cheapest cup of coffee in town ($1.89 for a large coffee and two donuts).

It was eventually bulldozed and rebuilt as a Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robins hybrid. The prices went up immediately and I guess they took the old machine out or something because the coffee was just… different. It was bleh. They just had to get rid of a good thing and fru-fru it up. I don’t think it’s even open 24 hours anymore.

Ha! Patrick, I went to this very DD on Prince each of the last two mornings. The coffee was alright. I find it’s better when you get the flavored stuff (hazelnut for me, usually). Even when it’s not great, they just happen to be the only drive-thru coffee place in downtown-ish Athens. I’m not driving clear up to Alps Road to hit Jittery Joe’s.

by: BradyDale

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:24:47 +0000

I don’t think it’s the coffee. I think it’s the taste of the styrofoam that gets in the coffee.

by: Ben Towle

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:25 +0000

Well, that’s what you cretins get for going to DD instead of going to Krispy Kreme, like decent folk.

by: Chris

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:18:50 +0000

You know that show, Americas Test Kitchen? They tested all these different coffee brands including Dunkin Donuts coffee. They found that DD’s coffee had the highest percentage of quaker beans (bean which did not reach its full development) of all of them.

Now you know.

by: Liz Glass

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:28:55 +0000

Semi-off-topic, but THE BEST iced coffee I have ever had is Ciao For Now on East 12th, off Ave A.

by: Marc Arsenault

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:09:25 +0000

It’s true. Very sad, but true. I was long devoted to the double D, but haven’t been in a year or more. There’s an old Green Day song, “409 in Your Coffeemaker”, and I seriously suspect that it’s the culprit. It now tastes like 409, and I have actually seen the 409 bottles dangerously close to the coffeemakers at DDs from Brooklyn to Knoxville. Stay away. Both Brueggers and Ben and Jerry’s serve the mighty fine Green Mountain coffee. Go for that instead. (OK, I’m not from Vermont, I wasn’t paid to say this) btw Newman’s Own is also Green Mountain… it says so on the package. Deep six the effing frognuts!

by: Marion

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:10:15 +0000

Dunkin Donuts? Blasphemy. Heidi, I think you need to try our coffee. Sure our apartment might be a little out of your normal commute, but you can’t beat the roaster (in Oregon) I buy it from with a stick.
Literally. He’s too far away. But I digress.
Best coffee!

by: Simon Fraser

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:00:26 +0000

Tim Hamilton really likes it.
Buys it every day.
Won’t drink the Coffee I MAKE!

by: Scott Bieser

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:54:43 +0000

People still go to Dunkin Donuts?

by: Sphinx Magoo

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:40:24 +0000

I agree with Steve Taylor. I think there’s something to the mindset of the staff of the DD you go to. I was once in NYC and bought coffee at a DD just outside of Grand Central and it was awful; the guy behind the counter was having a bad day and his coffee reflected that.

This sounds like a job for Masaru Emoto!!

by: Steve Taylor

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:43:52 +0000

Uhm,…We don’t have a Dunkin’ Donuts here in New Orleans so I drink Community Brand Coffee at home and at their local cafe’s. Next to Cafe Bustello it is my fave. But, in a pinch I buy the Dunkin’ Donuts bagged coffee and I am surprised what a serviceable beverage it can be. I think being the one in command of the coffee to water ratio is the mitigating factor vis-a-vis the flavor/richness factor. Being the one in control of the cleanliness of the coffee making equipment mitigates the vomit to toilet water ratio, as well,…I think.

by: Bill Reed

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:47:58 +0000

Dunkin Donuts’ iced coffee is my secret lover.