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Dunkin' Donuts, which is based in Canton, Mass., had comfortably enjoyed the second spot in the breakfast market for years. Customers relied on Dunkin' for a doughnut and a cup of joe; they went to McDonald's for anything more. That easy division worked for years. Dunkin' rang up more than $3 billion in U.S. breakfast sales last year, compared with the Golden Arches' $7 billion, according to research firm A.G. Edwards. But the heat is on. In January McDonald's, which is in the middle of its own revival, scored big when its coffee beat Dunkin...
...Stale Doughnut Myth "Wall-to-wall Kennedy" [Jan. 22] acknowledged that giggles over John F. Kennedy's "supposed gaffe" "Ich bin ein Berliner!" may not be warranted. Only in western Germany is a jelly doughnut called a Berliner. Here in Berlin a jelly doughnut is a Pfannkuchen. So the ignorant West German journalists misunderstood, as did their American colleagues based in West Germany. The Berliners knew perfectly well Kennedy didn't say, "I am a Pfannkuchen!" but, as he also said, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin." And they loved him for it. Chris McLarren...
...Mexico is my home. I have no idea why. It's where I belong. I love everything about it. I love the terrain. I love the people. In my teens I worked on a dude ranch there. You can't get sopaipillas [a type of fried doughnut] anywhere else. I know people that have moved back to New Mexico from other states because they couldn't get sopaipillas. It's a good death food: it'll kill you in a minute, but it's a good death...
...people and lick the plate?" Townsend asks. The answer, of course, is that you would never go to that restaurant again. Still, there is something exciting about sitting on a pillow grabbed from a couch and stuffing steamed white roughy and green-mango salsa into a savory shiitake-mushroom doughnut that I know damn well the Man doesn't want...
...Lane ’07 blazed—or glazed—his way to victory last night in the third annual Athletes in Action doughnut eating competition, downing a dozen rounded pastries in just under two minutes, 10 seconds. Kara M. O’Reilly ’07, Kyle Cutter ’07, and Amanda C. Slaight ’08 took home the women’s relay title, eating a combined 12 doughnuts in 2:15. On the men’s side, 13 students raced to scarf a dozen donuts, while the women?...