Juan's Goat: More coffee rants.

5.3.2013


In January of this year, social media erupted with the story that Dunkin' Donuts' CEO announced the company was expanding into Southern California.  People were going apeshit about it.  I love a good donut (and I like spelling it that way), sure, but most postings, and indeed the CEO's press release itself noted that most people were clamoring for Dunkin' Donuts coffee. 

Since I've lived in California for - shit - 17 years, it's been quite a while since I've had donuts, coffee or anything else from Dunkin' Donuts, so I took it for granted that their coffee was a step up from other donut shops' godless, soulless, horrible coffee.  Some day I thought I'd look into it.

That day came a week or so back on my Little Family's last day of our Florida trip.  We were driving around Cocoa Beach and passed a Dunkin' Donuts.  I asked my Little Wife if we could stop in and she agreed.  I got a chocolate-frosted, chocolate cake donut for her, a heart-shaped "brownie batter" donut for Ez and a SOUR CREAM donut and a large Dunkin' Donuts coffee for me.  God damn but my donut was good!  Holy shit.  And on the flipside:  God damn but my large coffee was bad:  It was burnt!  It wasn't all that great beyond being burnt, but it was burnt!  They served up everyone on that same "pot" World-Famous Dunkin' Donuts burnt goddamn coffee.  Suck it, Dunkin' Donuts.

So because I tend to obsess a bit about things like this, I snagged a vacuum-sealed pound of "Dunkin' Donuts Whole Bean (Original Blend)" coffee from the Von's the other day.  I ground up a batch, brewed it up and poured a cup.  Uh ... Not good.  Experiment over.  I'm back to Peet's and I can't say that curiosity won't again get the best of me, but I'm here to stay.

Tonight - by request - Minibar 


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