Travelers on Japan Airlines' new non-stop service between Boston and Tokyo are in for a Boston treat: Donuts AND chowder, on one convenient tray that just begs you to dunk the donuts in the chowder.
Apparently, Mister Donut is a huge donut chain in Japan that has its roots right here in the greater Hub area. In fact, it's sort of the yin to the Dunkin' Donuts yang - it got its start when two budding donut entrepreneurs (brothers in law, no less) couldn't agree on the future of donuts and so separated, one to form Dunkin' Donuts, the other Mister Donut.
So if you've ever wondered about the possibility of alternate-universe Dunkin' Donuts donuts, just book a flight to Tokyo to get your exclusive "AIR MISDO set, which includes a chocolate-coated cinnamon ring and a maple-flavored ring of classic Mister Donut doughnuts, alongside a bowl of Boston's signature clam chowder."
H/t William Bradshaw.
Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!
Ad:
Comments
I don't know about dipping
By RhoninFire
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 9:54am
I don't know about dipping donuts into chowder, but clam chowder is my favorite and donuts for desert can't go wrong.
Mister Donut was better than
By Cripes
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:07am
Mister Donut was better than Dunks. I miss them.
Cripes
You Must Be Older Than Dirt To Remember Them
By Suldog
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:57pm
But, so am I.
Yeah, Mister Donut doughnuts had something special about them that Dunk's never quite had. I think it especially pertained to the filled varieties. A Mister Donut creme-filled was to Dunk's creme-filled as (oh, wot the hell, let's date myself again and sound like a bitchy old curmudgeon in the process) Hydrox was to Oreo, back in the 60's and 70's.
(Wow. I never realized, until this moment, that I was such a creme-filled reactionary.)
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Hydrox... another "lost" Boston brand
By Charles Bahne
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:55pm
Hydrox cookies were first made in Boston, in the building at the corner of Causeway and North Washington Streets (next to the Charlestown Bridge). They were invented by the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., which later became part of Sunshine, and still later, Keebler. Oreos were a later invention by the National Biscuit Co., which copied the Hydrox recipe.
If Suldog is older than dirt, he probably remembers when that building was a bread bakery for Stop & Shop supermarkets. I especially remember the aromas of cinnamon raisin bread emanating from that structure late at night in the mid-1970s.
Later, of course, you'd drive to Natick
By adamg
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 9:42pm
For that fresh-bread smell pouring out of the Wonder Bread plant (where the wavy part of the Natick Collection of Precious Stuff is now).
The Best Smell In The City
By Suldog
Mon, 04/16/2012 - 8:49am
If I was going to The Garden for a game, I would go out of my way to walk by that place just for the smell.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Ugh, Dunkin's...
By The Beer Guy
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:08am
LINDA'S DONUTS OR GTFO!!!!!
Chains that disappeared in US but flourish in Japan
By Ron Newman
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 11:44am
Here's another one that I grew up with:
Lawson was a ubiquitous convenience store chain in Ohio, known especially for its milk and orange juice. The Ohio chain was sold to Dairy Mart and disappeared, but before that happened, the Lawson name was licensed to a Japanese company which has now built it into a huge chain there.
I wondered why this Japanese behemoth...
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:09pm
... had an English name.
Thanks!
When does the Boston-Tokyo
By anon
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 12:31pm
When does the Boston-Tokyo service on the 787 start?
This article says the end of June. But just a few days ago, there was a press release that said April 22:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-a...
I'm 38 and still remember Mr. Donut's.
By jonbowen
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 1:24pm
There were quite a few around the Boston area.
Mr. Donut
By anon
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 3:44pm
I remember the Mr. Donut in Wellington Circle in Medford. I think it's a Dunkin's now.
Mister Donut on Somerville Avenue
By Ron Newman
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:28pm
What's now a Dunkin Donuts on Somerville Avenue at Central Street started out as a Mister Donut. But not for very long, before it became a DD.
Recall hearing that the
By anon wd
Sat, 04/14/2012 - 12:39am
Recall hearing that the Century Bank on Mass Av in N. Cambridge started out as a Mister Donut- also recall there was one in Winchester as well
A: Extra Ts in the headline?
By Frank Cannon
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:33pm
I prefer sausage gravy over biscuits... but clam chowder would work over those, too.
Goood eye
By adamg
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 9:41pm
Fixed, thanks!
Nothing dunks success like success
By Daan
Fri, 04/13/2012 - 8:14pm
I agree about the paucity of creamy fillings in Dunkin Donuts donuts. Many years ago, in a city far away, local Dunkin Donuts sold what was called a Bavarian Cream donut. This used the same custard filling as found in Boston Cream donuts sold here in Boston. They're version of the Boston Cream donut was a white fake cream not worthy of the name. But their Bavarian Creams were bursting with custard. They had heft and bulk; these were as close to being pure emanations of Plato's ideal donut as ever could exist in this world of shadowy donuts. But the cream filled donuts today have barely a drop of custard. They are an insult to every decent donut ever cooked.