Supermarket doughnuts

Author
Discussion

CoolHands

Original Poster:

18,496 posts

194 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
why are they so fking disgusting? mad Don't even normally have them but my missus bought some so I tried one.

Instead of the light, voluminous jam-filled doughnut covered with sugar of yore, we get a dense, doughy oddly moist puke-inducing thing with a smattering of damp white stuff.

WHAT THE fkING fk? Have they no shame. Truly awful.

hurl

spikeyhead

17,222 posts

196 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
Lidl's are ok, the rest are indeible

Butter Face

30,191 posts

159 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
Morrisons. Their raspberry ones are ace.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
CoolHands said:
why are they so fking disgusting? mad Don't even normally have them but my missus bought some so I tried one.

Instead of the light, voluminous jam-filled doughnut covered with sugar of yore, we get a dense, doughy oddly moist puke-inducing thing with a smattering of damp white stuff.

WHAT THE fkING fk? Have they no shame. Truly awful.

hurl
MORRISONS. Delicious and fresh. Apple/strawberry/raspberry/custard, take your pick.

/thread.


yes

CoolHands

Original Poster:

18,496 posts

194 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
well we can't name & shame, but let's just say every little doesn't help.

Butter Face

30,191 posts

159 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
CoolHands said:
well we can't name & shame, but let's just say every little doesn't help.
Oh yes, they are cheap crap.

Morrisons are a revelation after those turds!!

vladcjelli

2,962 posts

157 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
Mother in law insists on "treating" us to Co-op jam doughnuts.

I respond by not eating them, while pining for Morrisons ones instead.

spikeyhead

17,222 posts

196 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
Supermarkets are good for tinned stuff and washing powder. For the rest, use a real shop.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
I think they bake them super-dense so they hold their moisture throughout the day, but they are invariably dry as fk and taste like st by the time you get them.

AlexC1981

4,903 posts

216 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
Sainsburys doughnuts are made from scratch in store, or at least they were when I worked there in the bakery. The bakers would make them on the Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday morning I used to fry them, sugar them and put the jam in.

Sometimes I miss those simpler (albeit sticky) times smile

Oakey

27,523 posts

215 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
I had some raspberry ones from Morrisons recently that tasted like hot cross buns

airsafari87

2,546 posts

181 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
quotequote all
The day you drive through a Krispy Kreme in the U.S., with its light on. Is the day you completely give up eating any doughnuts back home.

CoolHands

Original Poster:

18,496 posts

194 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
Oakey said:
I had some raspberry ones from Morrisons recently that tasted like hot cross buns
haha

I'm trying to work out if that's good or bad

Type R Tom

3,859 posts

148 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
airsafari87 said:
The day you drive through a Krispy Kreme in the U.S., with its light on. Is the day you completely give up eating any doughnuts back home.
Had a fresh one straight out the fryer from the branch at Bluewater, like eating hot sweet butter!

krallicious

4,312 posts

204 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
A KK opened up just outside Kingston when I used to live there in 2007. Bloody awful. They tasted like sweet, half molten plastic. If you want good doughnuts then just make them at home.

C0ffin D0dger

3,440 posts

144 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
I also conclude, after extensive research, that Morrison's doughnuts are the king of the supermarket doughnut.

Luckily it's also the nearest supermarket to work so whenever it's anyone's birthday we often have a pile of these ready for morning coffee biggrin

Don't think you can really compare KK with the bog standard deep fried, sugar coated, jam filled jobs though.


madzo14

159 posts

121 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
M&S do good ones. Many a time I've got them straight from the oven still hot.


CAPP0

19,530 posts

202 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
CoolHands said:
well we can't name & shame, but let's just say every little doesn't help.
Sadly this is correct. There was a time, back when <insert name of very old person> was a nipper, when their doughnuts were very good, in fact dangerously so in that a bag of 5 could easily be consumed within one (long) break, but now they're just stodge wearing a doughnut badge.

On the other hand, you have now made me want doughnuts. I'm in Docklands. Where to go?

FW18

243 posts

140 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
AlexC1981 said:
Sainsburys doughnuts are made from scratch in store, or at least they were when I worked there in the bakery. The bakers would make them on the Saturday and in the early hours of Sunday morning I used to fry them, sugar them and put the jam in.

Sometimes I miss those simpler (albeit sticky) times smile
Still is the same now smile

Ste1987

1,798 posts

105 months

Friday 4th September 2015
quotequote all
I used to work for Asda, and their donuts are pre-baked and frozen in the factory. Then they get delivered and are just defrosted before getting bagged up. Still ate them on a regular basis whilst I worked there, especially when you could get 5 for 50p!