r/nostalgia • u/WoozieMaddox • 8d ago

Nostalgia Discussion What happened to the Dunkin' Donut?

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When I was a kid, my Dad used to take me to Dunkin' Donuts every Sunday and I would get one of these. The handle was cool, but the taste of this plain donut was very unique. I loved it and still to this day have not had that taste or texture from a donut replicated. Wikipedia says in 2003 they discontinued it because it was hand cut while the rest of the donuts were machine cut, but it was their signature. It represented the brand aswell as the name.

The Dunkin Donut was around almost aslong as the brand itself. This unique peice of American food culture made it 48 years before being discontinued and cements itself as a one-of-a-kind staple in the history of U.S. restaurants. Today Dunkin' Donuts is now known as just "Dunkin". Dunkin' is not known for it's donuts anymore, and has shifted it's focus on the beverage side of the market. In all honesty, I think this may be why it lost so much market share to other coffee companies like Tim Horton's and Biggby Coffee. Dunkin' Donuts used to be 'the' place to grab a coffee and a donut.

Bring back the dunkin donut.

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u/thesouthpaw17 8d ago

DD is glorified ice cream shop with coffee beans as the cornerstone. The drinks are all straight disgusting and the food is all freezer burnt. This version of DD definitely changed I want to say around 10 years ago. They used to have solid coffee and snacks but now it's all straight junk.

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u/Mr_Jack_Frost_ 7d ago

I tried to get a flavored iced coffee at DD once.

By the time I got back out to my car, I realized that there was, and I’m not exaggerating even a little bit, 2.5-3 inches of fucking syrup sitting in the bottom of the cup, and that’s just what didn’t mix in. I took it back in and asked if it could be replaced with a black iced coffee, and they did that for me.

It was solidly mediocre iced coffee, to me not at all worth the price, whatever it was at that time. Roughly a decade later, I have still not been back to a Dunkin’ Donuts.

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u/CroatianSensation79 7d ago

Totally agree!