May 29, 2017
Krispy Kreme or Duncan Donuts. That is a big debate in the South. Along with Coke vs Pepsi, Duke vs Carolina, Heinz vs Hunts, eastern BBQ vs western BBQ. Do Southerners get along about anything? It can be an all-out brawl sometimes! I absolutely hate my Facebook newsfeed anytime there is a Duke vs Carolina basketball game! Everyone has an opinion. And I mean everyone. Even if they don’t have an opinion, they post about how they don’t have an opinion and how stupid other peoples’ opinions are!
And just to get my two cents in about the doughnut debate. There should NEVER be a debate. Krispy Kreme makes there’s fresh and Duncan Donuts are frozen and baked there. Now, you can debate the coffee all you want to…
But the only debate I have come upon in Bozeman is how the word “creek” is pronounced. Some say creek with the same long e as in street while others give it an /i/ sound like trick. The second-grade phonics teacher in me will tell you that the double e gives you the long e sound but nobody wants a smarty pants. And I’m not one to talk. In the south, there are plenty of short e words that become i’s. There is a big difference in how you pronounce a pen you write with and a pen a pig sleeps in. I’m not about to change my ways because it’s not phonically correct!
But back to doughnuts. Bozeman has no such debate. There is only ONE doughnut shop in town: Granny’s Gourmet Donuts. You just can’t count the grocery stores that sell doughnuts although Liam and I would agree that the chocolate covered sprinkled doughnuts from Albertsons are very good!
So some friends and I made a morning of it and decided to take the kids to get a nutritious breakfast (ha!) and then go feed the ducks at the pond at Montana State. (Stay at home moms are great at creating fun, FREE activities!)
It was the tiniest little shop but that just meant the boys couldn’t run around everywhere. The workers let the boys sprinkle their own doughnut but for some reason, Liam was very unsure about this. He just kept staring at the doughnut in the bowl not quite sure how he was expected to get it out. The other little boy dug right in and was ready to eat it before he even got off the chair! Back at the table, Liam decided the only good part of the doughnut was the icing and while I agree partly with the deliciousness of icing he was missing out on a great tasting doughnut.
The special doughnut of the day was a Mojito doughnut. Creative yet an interesting flavor choice. One of the girls I was with got it and said it was good. Then again, I don’t like mojitos in a liquid form much less in a pastry.
Funnily enough, the shop gives kids free ‘duck bread’ to feed to the ducks at the pond. So, each boy, complete with their white bag of dough for the ducks, headed out the door running, walking and excited to see the ducks. The man in the shop warned us that the ducks may flock to whoever had the white bags…but he underestimated the energy of our boys!
They fed the ducks plenty of food and ran around and around the pond chasing a lot of the poor ducks. Many of the ducks were smart enough to head to the water and stay there until the two wild and crazy humans left!
Rumor has it that there could be another doughnut place in the works for this town. But, it’s safe to say we’ll have a repeat of this play date sometime this summer. Poor ducks!