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Here are a few excerpts from a recent article about the opening of the first Krispy Kreme in Ireland.
For the full article you can find it here. It also includes a Twitter video (with audio) of what seems like 80+ cars standing still in the drive-thru line just honking their horns constantly at each other in the late night hours. lol No wonder local residents couldn't get any sleep. haha
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...renzy-youd-think-theyd-never-seen-a-doughnut/
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The first Krispy Kreme opened in Ireland to such a frenzy you’d think they’d never seen a doughnut
By Meagan Flynn
October 5 [2018]
It looked like closing time at the county fair or the week before Christmas at the mall: cars just sitting there, bumper to bumper, waiting their turn to inch along.
Dozens of vehicles lined up and down the aisles of the parking lot, honking as if every single driver in front of them was staring at their cellphone while stopped at a green light. It sounded like the traffic jam of the century.
But, in fact, it was the Krispy Kreme drive-through at 1:30 a.m. in Dublin — the first to open in the country.
The Dublin location opened Sept. 26 to wide acclaim, especially for its 24-hour drive-through. At least 300 people were queued at the door at 7 a.m. that morning, the Irish Times reported. But the lines did not go away. Throughout the night and the week, customers seemed unable to get enough of the doughnuts.
Neighbors complained to local government and Krispy Kreme executives that the noise from the doughnut drive-through had kept them awake for days, they told the Irish Times.
After just one week, Krispy Kreme had to shut down Dublin’s 24-hour drive-through.
“We anticipated a warm welcome for Krispy Kreme in Ireland and have long wanted to open a store here, but the response has been way ahead of our most optimistic expectations,” Krispy Kreme Ireland said in an Oct. 3 statement on Facebook, announcing the overnight shutdown.
The doughnut chaos has perplexed much of Ireland.
After all, Irish people “had actually seen doughnuts in Ireland before all hell broke loose about #KrispyKreme’s arrival,” one Irish woman, Mim Donovan, confirmed on Twitter. “This is not like the first time that we have seen doughnuts,” confirmed another Irish person, Carl Kinsella, writing for Joe, an online Irish men’s lifestyle magazine.
But there is apparently something incomparable about a Krispy Kreme in Dublin. One local councilman described what he witnessed as a “phenomenon.”
“I was at the opening and I have to say, I wasn’t prepared for the phenomenon that it is,” Ted Leddy told the Independent. “I mean there are other 24/7 stores in the [shopping] center, but I’m not sure what it is with doughnuts.”
“For some reason, introducing any stimulant like this one into Irish society is like introducing a packet of Mentos into a recently shaken up bottle of Diet Coke,” Kinsella wrote in Joe. “We shake violently. We rupture. We convulse, as a people. It’s a mess. And it’s not how the rest of the world operates. There are 316 Krispy Kremes in the U.S. It’s been around for 81 years. It has over 1,000 locations globally. Ireland had ONE store, for ONE week, and we all freaked out so bad that they had to change its entire business model. Immediately.”
Krispy Kreme was responsive. The management tried to erect signs for drivers, “asking them to be quiet,” and tried to work with the shopping center management to “control traffic congestion in the store vicinity,” the shop said on Facebook Oct. 2. But none of it seemed to be enough.
The drive-through will now remain open until 11:30 p.m. and will open at 6 a.m., and the traffic mitigation plans will continue, the Irish Times reported.
As of Friday morning, the Irish Times reported a wait time of 30 minutes for the doughnuts, with metal barriers set up to control the queue like those found at a theme park.
“Once you’re in, you’re in,” one customer told the newspaper as he waited. “There’s no going back.”
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For the full article you can find it here. It also includes a Twitter video (with audio) of what seems like 80+ cars standing still in the drive-thru line just honking their horns constantly at each other in the late night hours. lol No wonder local residents couldn't get any sleep. haha
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...renzy-youd-think-theyd-never-seen-a-doughnut/
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The first Krispy Kreme opened in Ireland to such a frenzy you’d think they’d never seen a doughnut
By Meagan Flynn
October 5 [2018]
It looked like closing time at the county fair or the week before Christmas at the mall: cars just sitting there, bumper to bumper, waiting their turn to inch along.
Dozens of vehicles lined up and down the aisles of the parking lot, honking as if every single driver in front of them was staring at their cellphone while stopped at a green light. It sounded like the traffic jam of the century.
But, in fact, it was the Krispy Kreme drive-through at 1:30 a.m. in Dublin — the first to open in the country.
The Dublin location opened Sept. 26 to wide acclaim, especially for its 24-hour drive-through. At least 300 people were queued at the door at 7 a.m. that morning, the Irish Times reported. But the lines did not go away. Throughout the night and the week, customers seemed unable to get enough of the doughnuts.
Neighbors complained to local government and Krispy Kreme executives that the noise from the doughnut drive-through had kept them awake for days, they told the Irish Times.
After just one week, Krispy Kreme had to shut down Dublin’s 24-hour drive-through.
“We anticipated a warm welcome for Krispy Kreme in Ireland and have long wanted to open a store here, but the response has been way ahead of our most optimistic expectations,” Krispy Kreme Ireland said in an Oct. 3 statement on Facebook, announcing the overnight shutdown.
The doughnut chaos has perplexed much of Ireland.
After all, Irish people “had actually seen doughnuts in Ireland before all hell broke loose about #KrispyKreme’s arrival,” one Irish woman, Mim Donovan, confirmed on Twitter. “This is not like the first time that we have seen doughnuts,” confirmed another Irish person, Carl Kinsella, writing for Joe, an online Irish men’s lifestyle magazine.
But there is apparently something incomparable about a Krispy Kreme in Dublin. One local councilman described what he witnessed as a “phenomenon.”
“I was at the opening and I have to say, I wasn’t prepared for the phenomenon that it is,” Ted Leddy told the Independent. “I mean there are other 24/7 stores in the [shopping] center, but I’m not sure what it is with doughnuts.”
“For some reason, introducing any stimulant like this one into Irish society is like introducing a packet of Mentos into a recently shaken up bottle of Diet Coke,” Kinsella wrote in Joe. “We shake violently. We rupture. We convulse, as a people. It’s a mess. And it’s not how the rest of the world operates. There are 316 Krispy Kremes in the U.S. It’s been around for 81 years. It has over 1,000 locations globally. Ireland had ONE store, for ONE week, and we all freaked out so bad that they had to change its entire business model. Immediately.”
Krispy Kreme was responsive. The management tried to erect signs for drivers, “asking them to be quiet,” and tried to work with the shopping center management to “control traffic congestion in the store vicinity,” the shop said on Facebook Oct. 2. But none of it seemed to be enough.
The drive-through will now remain open until 11:30 p.m. and will open at 6 a.m., and the traffic mitigation plans will continue, the Irish Times reported.
As of Friday morning, the Irish Times reported a wait time of 30 minutes for the doughnuts, with metal barriers set up to control the queue like those found at a theme park.
“Once you’re in, you’re in,” one customer told the newspaper as he waited. “There’s no going back.”
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This is a cute link to CNN about the terrible loss of cargo in a destroyed Krispy Kreme truck. I wish I could just post the video itself. But I'm not tech savvy enough to know how to do it. lol It's very funny and cute though.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/01/02/cops-send-condolences-kentucky-doughnut-truck-orig.cnn
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/01/02/cops-send-condolences-kentucky-doughnut-truck-orig.cnn
Damn, Tampa that is funny. And very true in a certain way.
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This one may run a bit long for those of with shorter attention spans. But the nostalgia this brings back for me may also be a gift to you as well.
I was a big fan of the show and it was very nice to see them all after all this time. They all look great! Some look even better.
Very nice video. Thank you, Tampa!
This one may run a bit long for those of with shorter attention spans. But the nostalgia this brings back for me may also be a gift to you as well.
I never saw it. Just heard about it. Now I want to see it. Thanks, Tampa
It was a very good series. It will seem a bit dated with the era of cellphones and social media we live in now. But the story lines and the drama are very compelling.
I had to settle for watching it on LOGO. So I missed out on some of the nudity of when it aired on Showtime or one of those other premium cable channels. lol
OMG. Can you imagine his embarrassment later when he sees he did and said all that in front of his mom, wife/girlfriend, possibly other family members?
Dude wakes up from a colonoscopy and is still heavily drugged up.
Dude wakes up from a colonoscopy and is still heavily drugged up.
That is funny. He reminds me of Jimmy Johnson. Mikeyank should love him. He does have a cute butt and I guess it’s a shower. Lol
This is hysterical, Tampa. Thanks.
I had the weirdest and best dream last night that a Broke Straight Boys model was hitting on me to have sex. And we actually did do it once. But when we tried to do it a second time (at HIS urging) we got interrupted and couldn't finish. And oddly enough it was Johnny Forza.
Have any of the rest of you had a Broke Straight Boys model make a surprise guest appearance in your dreams? haha
Have any of the rest of you had a Broke Straight Boys model make a surprise guest appearance in your dreams? haha
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Yes I have, in fact this morning. I had watched Rep's putting up his "blast from the past" of Tyler White & Cage Kafig. I fell back asleep and Tyler White was in my dream. It wasn't a sex dream, but rather he was hanging out with me. And I can recall in the past having Mike Robbins making appearances in my dreams. And I do believe that I had a sex dream or two starring Ayden Troy!
Yes I have, in fact this morning. I had watched Rep's putting up his "blast from the past" of Tyler White & Cage Kafig. I fell back asleep and Tyler White was in my dream. It wasn't a sex dream, but rather he was hanging out with me. And I can recall in the past having Mike Robbins making appearances in my dreams. And I do believe that I had a sex dream or two starring Ayden Troy!
Yeah. Ayden Troy is welcome to make an appearance in my sex dreams any time he wants.
haha
mikeyank
Long time forumite
Yeah. Ayden Troy is welcome to make an appearance in my sex dreams any time he wants.
Or how about Ayden & Adam in the same dream?
LOL
