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Monday, April 9, 2007 at 03:00 EDT Naoki Nomura, a food expert and adviser to JETRO, on why Krispy Kreme donuts have become the new poster boy for the U.S. gastronomic invasion
ghoul, no, I often eat food that is bad for me, but I just like it to taste better than these kinds of doughnuts. You should try my peanut butter double fudge brownies. My arteries clog just making them.
| Penny Ditch | by www.japantoday.com. All rights reserved. | 14.04 | 13:42 |
Nessie, as always, you got me laughing, especially your 16:50 post. I hope I don't banned forever on the boards for this link. :) Actually this is too funny, laughed so hard the first time I saw it.
Donuts are relatively easy to make and opening a shop doesn't require a great deal of start up capital. So it's a natural business for immigrants who don't have deep pockets. Ironically, they've bucked the franchise trend in LA where it's a Mom and Pop independently owned business.
Ah, the former milling town is now the Cambodian capital of America! And they are probably taking the donut industry by storm there as well. In fact in good immigrant fashion Cambodians now have a network of suppliers in LA which cuts their costs (and make it harder for the truly independent businessman to match their prices.
) My family home is close to a town called Ellsworth (near Mount Desert Island). I distinctly remember the uproar when a historic church was torn down to make room for Dunkin Donuts. This was back in the early 1970s.
But it heralded the arrival of the franchise business in rural backwater communities. Now of course they are chasing the overseas market in places like Japan. But we have been able to hold on to a delicious bakery run by a local family.
DD is for tourists; the bakery is for locals. And I sample their fare every summer.
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| icecream (Apr 11 2007 - 00:35) | | |
to count 7 different people all carrying boxes of KK donuts as I walked through Shinjuku station to my platform. And these aren't little boxes holding only 2 or 3 donuts. These boxes look to be the size of a sheet of A3 paper.
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