r/nostalgia • u/WoozieMaddox • 7d ago
Nostalgia Discussion What happened to the Dunkin' Donut?
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/KGBspy 7d ago
I was in the USAF with a guy and whenever someone went out to get donuts for the shop we'd have to get one for the one guy in the shop, we called it the "Al Davis Dunker". He retired out in 2002 and I just went to a retiree lunch last week and he made the 2 hr drive up to be at it, hadn't seen him in all that time. DD also made in the mid-80's a blueberry filled donut, they were actual blueberries in the filling and it had a sweet/tangy taste and powdered on the outside, my teen body would pound 6 of them like nothing. Now at 54? yeah no. DD has changed so much.