Good & bad health: Free Krispy Kreme doughnut with Covid vaccination

[BigmanPigman]

card. I don't usually crave sweets but I just read about this offer by Krispy Kreme CEO in my Time mag. I like the CEO's response to criticism about their new policy to get people vaccinated. Mr. Tattersfield, the CEO, said, "If folks don't want to visit a doughnut shop, they don't have to".

https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer#:~:text=Krispy%20Kreme%20is%20finding%20ways,free%20Original%20Glazed%C2%AE%20doughnut.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I guess I'm the only person who thinks Krispy Kreme doughnuts are

inedible.

A very long time ago Dunkin Doughnuts was good, but not in recent decades. Sigh. I might need to go back to making my own, which I used to do when I was in high school. I would actually get up early and make doughnuts. I'd use a recipe from a cookbook my mother got when she was married in 1942, and so all of the recipes in it were even older. I recall the doughnuts as being completely wonderful.

[wackadoo wabbit]

5. I consider them inedible as well; I don't understand their appeal

But I think the company's offering free donuts to those who've been vaccinated is a nice gesture.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I agree. It is a nice gesture.

Lucky me, I live in a city with no Krispy Kremes.

Honestly, for those of you happy to get their donuts, go for it! If you like them, then that's all that matters. My opinion here is meaningless, and I know that.

[wackadoo wabbit]

7. I hope it didn't seem that I was being snarky about your original post

When I added that I thought it was nice of the company to offer the free donuts (which I personally wouldn't take as the gift they are; I really don't think they're worth the calories), I wasn't in any way implying that you didn't feel that way as well.

Re-reading my post just now, I realize that it might possibly have come across that way, which I absolutely did not intend. If it did seem like that, I am truly sorry.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. No, no, no. I didn't see any snark at all.

I'm the one not entranced by Krispy Kreme. Everyone who likes it is more than entitled to liking them. I actually do appreciate the offer of free donuts. It's my personal problem that I don't happen to be fond of Krispy Kreme. Honestly.

Do not think I'm taking any sort of offense, because I am not. I can piss and moan about Krispy Kreme all I like. That doesn't change anyone else's appreciation of them.

I might have mentioned that many, many years ago, when I was in high school, I'd sometimes get up early in the morning and make donuts for my family. Back then I used a recipe from the cookbook my mother was given when she got married in 1942. A wonderful cookbook that I wish I had all these years later. Anyway, I'd get up early make donuts (they were fried in Crisco.) which my sister remembered many years later and told me how much she loved them. For me, it was almost a meh, this is what I do. But honestly, I loved those donuts every bit as much as she did. Alas, I don't have that cookbook and so I cannot make them now. Darn.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Criticism? Like one lousy donut is going to hurt you. Anyone else getting a little sick and...

tired of someone complaining about every little thing?

[Warpy]

4. Occasional donuts are fine

and Krispy Kreme are mostly air with a sugar coating.

It's the heavy, oily cake donuts you've got to watch out for.

[Skittles]

9. oh f*** people who are anti-donut

Tattersfield is correct, if you don't like donuts, don't eat them - save your righteousness for a better cause