Ode to the Donut

I love donuts. I have always loved donuts. Jelly donuts. Boston creme. Bavarian creme. Bear claws. Glazed. Vanilla sprinkled. All of them.

I used to go every Sunday morning to Caputo's bakery and get a dozen jelly donuts for Sunday breakfast. Perfection. We had a few independent donut shops around that would make a much bigger variety. There was one on 9th St and 5th Avenue in Park Slope that I went to for forty years. In our drinking days we would go to the all night Burger King on Fourth Avenue and get a bunch of burgers when we were wasted. Then we would stop at the donut shop and get two dozen. One for the hangover and one to eat on the way home. Man those were delicious greasy donuts.

Sometime in the 1990's you started to see a bunch of Dunkin' Donuts come around. They were the first big chain to open on Court St. Everybody said it was the precursor of big chains coming in to push out the Mom and Pop. They were right. The joint on 9th St closed. Or more accurately became a falafel stand. They became ubiquitous and you saw them all over the place. Well not anymore. They are closing over 450 stores.

These stores are principally in gas stations. Now that sucks because when you are traveling it is always great to see a name you know and trust when you want to get something.  Lots of people out of work and a lot of people without donuts.

I call that a tragedy.

I blame Black Lives Matters. By defunding the police department they are destroying a huge part of the donut shops target demographic. Along with the communist governors closing businesses with the bogus Kung Flu bullshit how can the poor donut survive.

God bless the Donut. Please Jesus preserve it. I can give George Washington and protection from the criminals but please Jesus take the wheel and save our Donuts!

I beg you!

Doug Jones really does not want to win in Alabama.

Doug Jones sent out this flyer in the Alabama Senate election. He seemed to think it would be a good idea to imply that people would be upset at black guys dating high school girls. Nice.

Read all about it at Powerline.

Pass the popcorn.

You Scream, I Scream....but these Mooks steal for Ice Cream!

Ice cream bandits are wreaking havoc on NYC supermarkets

By Reuven Fenton and Linda Massarella

August 12, 2016 | 12:41am

 New York Post

Two-bit ice cream thieves are enraging billionaire John Catsimatidis.

The supermarket magnate has issued a $5,000 reward for information on a gang of crooks swiping ice cream from his stores and then peddling it on the cheap to bodegas, which illegally resell it.

“They keep stealing it because it’s an easy item to sell,’’ Catsimatidis groused to The Post on Thursday, adding that he suspects most of the thieves are junkies.

“The bodegas buy it, they encourage it,’’ he added.

A Bonnie-and-Clyde duo coolly hit up Catsimatidis’ Gristedes store in Chelsea on Tuesday, stuffing 80 cartons of Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream into four bags before making for the door.

Police said the man and woman swiped 49 cartons of Häagen-Dazs and 31 of Ben & Jerry’s at the Ninth Avenue location.

The thieves were foiled when workers chased them and grabbed their frozen loot as they fled.

Store manager Robert Montalvo said he and two clerks cornered the “drugged-out-looking” pair at the exit.

“The guy said, ‘We got this from another store.’ I’m like, ‘Really?’ ” Montalvo said.

Police said the theft fits a citywide pattern.