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> > By the way, the first Krispy Kreme in my area just *happened* to be built right next to the police station...
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> > koala"you gotta hand it to *that* site location analyst"mom
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> I'd much rather have a bunch of cops hanging out at a local donut shop than slowly going insane driving a squad car around and around and around and around. After all, would you want some crazed, dizzy, hungry, and well-armed people wandering through your neighborhood?
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> -Faux "is having deja vu" Pas

That's so funny! US cops really do hang out in donut shops? I always thought that was just in the movies.
We've only had American-style donut shops here in the last couple of years, and I've only ever seen one, although I believe that our first-ever genuine Dunkin Donuts shop has just opened in South Auckland.
"Donuts" here are more likely to mean a long object, similar to a hot dog bun except made of some sort of lightly fried sweet bready stuff, with cream down the middle, a blob of raspberry jam on top, and powdered sugar over the whole thing. You get them in bakeries. The way they look and taste seems to be some kind of bizarre subconscious national standard, in spite of the fact that every shop makes its own, presumably to a different recipe, and often by immigrant bakers who never heard of one before getting here. It's just one of those things.

Brunnen-"meat pies, on the other hand, vary wildly"G