Comments on: Doughnuts Dumped in Dupont Circle

By: Hussey

Hussey — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:49:53 +0000

Birds everywhere where flying to and from with hunks of glazed doughnuts in their beaks. Squirrels scampered off with sticky bits of dough in their jaws. How could this happen? Is Krispy Kreme dumping their unwanted goods in the middle of Dupont Circle?

By: al gonzales

al gonzales — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:31:49 +0000

Have you ever been poor?
I know you both mean well, & have good intentions, but poor people need food & like food, almost any food [except for the peanut butter that you have to stir, i.e., the healthful stuff], & poor people need clothes.
Any old jacket is better than no jacket. Clothing that should be put in a dumpster is recycled as rags by most organizations.
If poor people ate only gourmet foods & wore only Armani, well - they wouldn't be poor.

By: creativemeat

creativemeat — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:20 +0000

Jule has a point Al. It makes sense for the same reason I'm against donating clothes we intend to throw away. Who are we to think that clothes that are meant for the dumpster are clothes good enough for poor people.

By: al gonzales

al gonzales — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:49:27 +0000

Obviously Jule Banville has never been hungry. Doughnuts are food, after all. & why should poor people be banned from eating doughnuts?

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:11:36 +0000

Similarly, my husband used to witness a hot dog vendor regularly dump all his unused hot dog buns in that grassy area where the Dupont Farmer's Market takes place every Sunday. The truly nasty part was the pack of rats that gorged themselves silly on all those buns. And we wonder why we have such rodent problems in this city. Yuck.

By: Jule Banville

Jule Banville — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:35:13 +0000

Well, in KK's defense, do we really want them, as a point of charity, to feed the poor and hungry gooey, stale, fat-laden, HFCS-infused old doughnuts? Do our indigent not deserve better?

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:27 +0000

Good question. It must be a corporate policy, because I thought that hotels and such could donate extra unserved food to the DC Central Kitchen. Why not the doughnuts too?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:29:37 +0000

So tell us, Krispy Kreme corporate types: why is the store prohibited from donating unsold doughnuts at the end of the day?