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So what did Gerry Callahan say to piss off Dunkin' Donuts?
By adamg on Fri, 02/14/2014 - 7:47am
Nobody wants to say, but whatever it was, it was enough to get the company to pull all its ads off WEEI.
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Must have been comments about
chocolate donuts or perhaps the rainbow sprinkles.
T&R rule.
T&R rule.
Providing that your definition of 'rule' means they play obnoxious techno music and talk in exaggerated European accents ad nauseam throughout the hockey season and beyond.
Techno and Euro accents? Wth
Techno and Euro accents? Wth are you talking about?
FALSE
Clearly just another butt-hurt D&C fan. Your argument is invalid.
What do you mean
you don't like when freddie T does Yager
Yager no make babies with you!!!
makin babies in za blu
Z28.
Callahan
you'd think someone that heard it live would've posted it somewhere. I guess their ratings are down, or their listeners are computer-illiterate!
WEEI has listeners? I don't
WEEI has listeners? I don't even know what channel they are.
Had
listeners.
Probably the Trvth
Which is that DD lost their soul years ago when they got rid of vanilla cream and chocolate cream donuts to make room for mediocre bagels.
I think it was when they stopped making "crullahs"
A "chocolate stick" is the lamest name of any pastry every invented. Not to mention, their donuts are awful. Bland, textureless, too sweet. Yuck.
Dunks' donuts have sucked for years
First, they switched to the same batter for every kind of donut. Then they started making them centrally for most locations instead of onsite. They're caffeine pushers; everything else is just designed to get you into the shop to buy more coffee.
Don't even get me started on their coffee.
Might as well go outside wearing a Yankees cap and an "I Heart A-Rod" t-shirt if you're going to insult DD's. But honestly...it's sad that people think this stuff is OK.
I don't mind dumping on Dunks coffee
It's under-roasted and watery. Still slightly more drinkable than that over-roasted, overpriced Starbucks swill. I make my morning coffee at home, and always manage to convince my boss to invest in a good espresso machine for the office.
Yep. We're all about the home-brew here.
Peet's, French press--done.
Sorry, duplicate
post.
It wasn't always this way
I remember Dunks had a big push a few (okay, maybe 20) years ago to improve their coffee and their handling practices. The coffee wasn't brilliant, but it was drinkable. Over time they and their franchisees seem to have slipped back to a lot of bad habits, like leaving pots on the hob for hours during the mid-day lull and shorting the grounds in the pot so the resulting brew is thin.
Given the cost per volume of their coffee for what they provide, it's just way cheaper and more pleasant now for me to make a pot at home and carry a Thermos around with me
shorting the grounds in the
"Old lady coffee".
Dunkin Doughnuts was a great
Dunkin Doughnuts was a great chain until it stopped making fresh doughnuts. Originally every Dunkin Doughnuts produced there own doughnuts. If you went into a store in the morning, you were greeted with heavenly scent of doughnuts cooking. As part of there expansion, they now make doughnuts off site and ship them to the stores. As real doughnuts have a short, shelf life, today's DD doughnuts are designed with a "shelf life" built into them.
Unfortunately the demise of the cruller had to do with the same manufactured doughnuts. The twist added to the cruller apparently cannot be replicated by the doughnut shaping machines, but require a human touch. So today,sadly we have the "stick" instead.
IMO, the cruller was the perfect doughnut for coffee dipping.
Cruller
Pretty sure the death of the cruller came when all transfats were eliminated and a lot of the recipes had to change. The new cruller recipe couldn't hold shape like the old one. Didn't taste like it either...
unlikley that butter et al would lead to less tasty product
Transfats are popular because they cheaper to store and transport. Saturated fats (butter! et al) are generally a lot more flavorful, and produce more appealing texture.
I think you might be conflating two events, as I recall cruellers disappearing from most DD's before the transfat ban went into effect.
Sigh.
For the doughnut obsessives among us--there's a mention in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books--Farmer Boy (which is full of fascinating food lore) of the mother making crullers. She makes the twisted long shape and not the "newfangled" circles (this would be the 1860s) because the twists turned themselves in the hot fat and she didn't like to waste time turning the circular ones!
I'm sure this is the case for a lot of similar businesses.
I've heard stories of local McDonald's winning contests for the best fries--these were fries handcut from actual potatoes, in the restaurant. Sad to think of how things have changed.
Even Julia Child Liked McDonald's Fries...
... back when they were made from real potatoes and cooked in beef tallow.
Auntie Em Didn't Twist Her Crullers
I assume there was a Freddy
I assume there was a Freddy Quimby style dispute about whether they're sprinkles or jimmies.
more proof I'm a true moderate
They r sprinkles on donuts and Jimmies on ice cream. :-)
Careful, I've heard people
Careful, I've heard people flip out about the word "jimmies" before. Some people are convinced (wrongly) that the etymology is racist toward blacks.
Jimmies
Jimmies are named so because of the Jimmy Fund. A nickel got you "jimmies" on your ice cream, which went to the Jimmy Fund.
I challenge you to have a
I challenge you to have a donut ice cream sandwich with the things at the donut / ice cream interface and to then report back on what they're called. The world must know. For science!
pathetic show anyway...
Just happened to listen to these morons as I was getting a ride to the train station. My first comment was "I thought this was a sports radio program? It sounds like a bad ripoff of Matty in the Morning on KISS-108...."
IMHO
D%C
Actually are doing well according to Finn. Not beating T%R, but better than they were doing before Minihane.
They are
barely beating static.
but making more money than
but making more money than you to do it.
Dino I didn't know
you trolled UHub.
Callahan personally hired me
Callahan personally hired me to troll you. Something about a parking space saver.
Nice to see a fake tough guy slammed to the mat
DD is crappy lately, true, but Callahan's tough guy act is tired.
Strangely enough, DD is all over Southeast Asia. You would not think they would go with constant heat and humidity.
Puritan Do(ugh)nuts of Neponset Circle?
Anyone else remember them?
Callahan apparently bit the hand the fed
Per the Globe, he made some disparaging on-air comments about Dunks' donuts three weeks ago. The station lost a lucrative contract and Gerry lost an individual endorsement deal. D&C has had its ratings ass handed to it by T&R for months, but closed the gap a bit last quarter. Given EEI's incredible shrinking audience and willingness to ditch established stars, a morning shake-up wouldn't be surprising if the March ratings come in with more bad news. I certainly got sick of the Two Hemorrhoidal Rightie Grandpas years ago.
I have a feeling Dunkin
I have a feeling Dunkin Donuts used that as an excuse to ditch them. They see the way the tide is turning against these two idiots, but they didn't want to offend any potential townie customers by saying that they're dropping their advertising because D+C are racist troglodytes.
This must have really sent them scrambling over on Guest Street
Since leaving D&C, you can now hear Dunkie's as a sponsor on lard ass Howie Carr's show. As if it wasn't bad enough that Dunkie's will lose money on the deal through all of the freebies Carr and Sandy will undoubtedly demand and swallow, I'm sure once Dunkie's finds out they're sponsoring one of the most ignorant bigots in Boston, they'll be soon dropping WRKO.
Of course they could advertise on Jeff Kuhner's show, but if Kuhner found out they sold donuts with rainbow Jimmies on them, he'd probably accuse Dunkie's of pandering to the gays.
Shadow of their former selves
When I was a kid Bavarian Cream (aka Boston Cream in NE) was filled with the delicious custard. The donut really was simply a tasty but satisfying vehicle for plenty of smooth silky and mildly sweet custard. One was satisfying, two were heavenly. The modern counterpart are merely gummy baked flour with a teaspoon of cream inside.
I agree that Cruellers were another delicious donut. They were a donut that communicated a foodwise sin of luxury for just a dollar and change. Their replacement is a cheap substitution that communicates contempt for its customers.
DD was a good brand. Now it is a McBrand. A purveyor of lowest common denominator goods that maximizes quantity by minimizing quality.
But why do so many folks keep returning to eat flour based cardboard and drinking coffee flavored hot water? Probably related to why so many folks feed their kids the gunk of fast food franchises in spite of the overwhelming evidence that foods saturated with sugar, salt and fat is just a slow poison. For a lot of folks food is unimportant to the business of life and is valued only for its calories. The super abudance of calories had gutted food of the value of quality. Value is based on scarcity. When there is too much of anything the value decreases. Perhaps the same has been applied to all food. In spite of a slow food movement, food among middle class and poor is still perceived solely in utilitarian terms which means quantity and particularly quantity of calories. With low expectations folks are willing to accept low qualities which companies such as DD are happy to provide. Lower quality equals lower cost and higher profits.
Their business models relies
Their business models relies on a cheap convenient product being sold on nostalgia and regional brand loyalty to overcome declining product quality. Eventually a public mood swing to value quality over cost will force them to adapt or die in a rapid preference cascade.
Sounds like TastyCake in Philly
TastyCake used to be the darling of Philadelphia which prided itself on well paid employees, top quality ingredients and freshness.After being sold, First they changed their pay structure- why pay a decent wage and have loyal workers for life when you can hire junkies and ex-cons. Next they changed their ingredients to expand their profit margin, it took about a year but customers started giving up. Last they loaded them with preservatives sold so they stayed on the shelf until they sold. Finally after bouncing in and out of bankruptcy they went to the city and the state and begged money and tax breaks to keep the jobs in Philly. The execs still ride in luxury while the taxpayers subsidize overpriced garbage, all in the name of nostalgia.
You can still return to the old days of Dunkie's
if you feel like taking a ride down Rte. 3 to Rte 18 in Weymouth. There you will find the only Dunkin's that still makes their donuts in house. Surprisingly enough and indicative of the insanity that pervades today's corporate boardrooms, the Weymouth store is also the highest volume store in the whole fucking chain.
Made on Premises
The DD on Summer Street in Arlington still makes the doughnuts on site
Checking in with Mut and Merloni
Let's see what they have to say about all this!
http://audio.weei.com/hosting/media/weei/1616210/d-c-d-bags.mp3
Thanks, guys!
I was listening.
I was listening.
He said only a gay muslim metco liberal terrorist gorilla would eat donuts while waiting for the bus.
He said Munchkins weren't the
He said Munchkins weren't the most nutritious breakfast item. Seriously. That's what he said.
DD
The donuts are the best thing at DD. I'm on a diet, and at DD it's so easy to get a cup of coffee (black no sugar, of course) without being tempted to go off my diet and buy a donut. I'm not joking. This is really a good thing.
Munchkins
I don't understand what the difference is between munchkins and regular donuts, except for the size. If munchkins are unhealthy then aren't all the non-jelly filled donuts just as unhealthy? And being smaller, aren't they less unhealthy?
I don't get why DD calls them
I don't get why DD calls them munchkins instead of donut holes. Crazy talk!
Who cares
I listen to D&C every morning. I used to tune into T&R but as Deiter on Sprockets would say... their act has grown tiresome.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprockets_(Saturday_Night_Live)
Oh so you're
their listener.