Are Crispy Cream donuts better than Daylight Donuts, or any other donut? If so, how?

It depends on what you want.
I love Crispie Creams when they are warm. They just melt in your mouth.
I don’t know Daylight Donuts, but most donut shops have a more cakey product, and sometimes that’s what you want.

Don’ut you know that they are Krispy Kreme donuts?

Crispy Cream are any donuts where the cream has gone hard. Not to be confused with the brand, Krispy Kreme.

Oh, and sorry to hear about the shitass who stole the candy you were reaching for at the parade when you were five. May the cream in his donuts go forever crispy

I never had a Daylight Donut. Krispy Kreme iconic “hot now“ glazed donut is delicious! But, my favorite donut is white cream filled covered with chocolate, and the best I’ve come across for that in a chain is Howard’s Donuts.

What’s “better” is a matter of opinion for most things.

I’ve had Krispy Kreme. I’ve never had Daylight Donuts. In Virginia, I had a donut that is very popular from a place called “Duck Donuts.” They were good but cakey and dense and heavy. I like Krispy Kreme better because they seem to melt in your mouth but that’s just my opinion based on what I like.

I try not to eat donuts ever because they’re so bad for you, just basically fat and sugar.

I live in Dunkin Donutstan. I grew up with them, I’m used to them. For a while I lived with Winchell’s (perfectly OK, no better or worse.)
We got a Krispy Kreme franchise here a few years ago, a big deal was made of it, then it just folded. Personally, I found them to be Too Much, and I didn’t like them.

@canidmajor: About 25 years ago, I read an article in a magazine (GQ maybe? it was a men’s magazine) about the owner of Krispy Kreme. The article talked about the first franchise being in Las Vegas, and when I went to LV I was very excited to find the place and get some donuts. I’ve since found them in NYC (near the Village) and also in Mohegan Sun casino (where I almost never go because I don’t gamble). The Krispy Kreme places where they make them hot right off the machine are so superior to just a Krispy Kreme that’s cold and sitting on a grocery shelf.

DD, to me, is a good second. I try to avoid it like the plague. If I do go, I try to get a bagel instead of a donut. I need donuts like a hole in the head. If someone brings them in to work, I can’t resist them.

@canidmajor Do you find that Dunkin Donuts are different than 30 years? My husband, his father, and I all think they aren’t as good as they used to be. I’m not a big donut person, but my husband and his father love them, and I was surprised they had noticed it too.

I wasn’t sure if the donuts actually changed, or if we have just had better donuts more recently and it was a relative thing. Better in our opinion anyway.

@JLeslie, I really have no idea if things have changed, and I don’t remember hearing about that. It’s all fat and sugar to me! :-) When I go to DD I expect to get something I will enjoy eating kind of on the fly, but it’s so rare now. Mostly I am annoyed at them because they cause major traffic issues (I have personally witnessed three accidents caused by overzealous customers at two locations in my town, one of which is a ¼ mile from my house.

Poor deprived Dutch. I don’t know what a Daylight donut is. But there must be a Krispy Kreme franchise somewhere in your range of travel. The shops feature a big neon sign that says “Hot Now” when the warm glazed ones are available. They run the production line here between 6 & 10 in the evening and again between 6 & 10 a m. The shop is open 24 hours and has a drive up window. They’ve raised their prices, but there are always really huge discounts on donuts by the dozen from groupon. There is no description of those warm glazed donuts that does them justice. Just know in advance that you can eat 6 of the damned things before you realize what you’re doing. If you’re watching your weight, avoid the place like death itself. It’s one of those businesses owned by the devil! I’ve heard rumors that they’re made from soy. If it’s true, the devil DEFINITELY is involved.

Here are the Krispy Kreme locations. They have them alphabetized by city, which, to me makes it kind of hard to find. I’d rather the states were alphabetized, but here you go:

https://www.krispykreme.com/locate/all-locations

I see the Mohegan Sun one is there and the LV ones.

Krispy Kreme hot glazed Donuts good.

Duck Donuts original on the Outer Banks good too.

Dunkin is great; wife loves Boston Creme !

My first doughnut shop is now Randy’s was the Big Donut Drive-in My favorite was French Crullers (not a cake donut made with extra egg whites in batter).

Not a fan of Krispy Kreme. I find them too sweet. They survived in Boston for maybe a year and closed. Apparently most folks agreed.

Ironically, I don’t like Dunkin’ Donuts either (our hometown heroes here).

I like the mom & pop joints that make larger, more cake-like doughnuts. And who spell doughnuts correctly.

Daylight Donut is a franchise. People can buy the individual buildings like it’s their own business. They make cinnamon rolls to die for! I have to plan ahead if I want one because I call it my calorie intake for the whole day.

@cookieman doughnuts can’t be too sweet,

Since this is social, I want to tell about a dream I had about a robbery at a doughnut store—well, that’s enough—just that, when I was about 19 years old, I dreamed I was at a doughnut shop one night and walked in on a robbery in progress.

Folks have commented on how ironic—in that police are almost always present at doughnut shops, and that they have really big windows, and are not known for large amounts of cash, and the clientele is not likely to have much cash on hand, or valuables on them.

Anyhow, even after thirty five years, and being a victim in several actual robberies, that long, stressful dream is still with me enough that I rarely go into a doughnut shop—except in the morning (if at all) when things are fresher anyhow.