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Ah, Krispy Kremes. Anyone insisting that they don't like 'em is nothing but a no good, downright liar. But if you even remotely resemble a Kreme devotee, this was not an encouraging week. After all, when byproducts of pastries that this author himself has eaten for breakfast begin clogging and destroying industrial-grade metal sewers to the point of major leaks, it's slightly jarring. As we noted yesterday morning, the Examiner broke the news that Fairfax County is currently suing the glazier for basically ruining the County's pipes near the company's factory in Lorton. Obviously, the Kremers didn't listen to Mom when she nagged about pouring grease down the drain. (What, just me?)
The Post has a few more details today, including the gory note that the factory has been hauling about 15,000 gallons of waste per day to an off-site waste treatment plant. Mmm.
Yes, it's gross, but is it surprising? Not really -- everyone knows that humans shouldn't eat these things regularly. But for all the easy gastronomical jokes born from news of this lawsuit, I can't help but wonder -- how bad are Krispy Kremes, really? Judging from the nutritional information (PDF), uh, those of you who enjoy an original glazed every other day might want to turn back here.
The Examiner's story noted that the factory in Louton "produces about 83 million doughnuts in a year." For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that every one of those doughnuts are the "healthiest" Kreme available -- the venerable Original Glazed. Under that assumption, the Louton factory pumped out a total of 498 million grams of saturated fat.
Too macro for you? Alright, let's consider the monstrous Caramel Kreme Crunch. Check out this line:
380 calories; 19g fat, (30% DV) 9g saturated fat (47% DV) 49g carbohydrates (16% DV)
Yes, that's one doughnut. But what about the doughnut holes? They must be slightly less bad for us, right? Well, if 5 fewer grams of sodium is going to make the difference for you, then yes.
Am I hypocritically suggesting that we cease eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts? Of course not. But until modern medicine somehow figures out how exchange our tissue-based intestines for something a little higher-grade than Fairfax County's pipes, you might want to just take one, instead of two -- lest you risk your own personal "graphic descriptions of...corrosive damage."
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there's 0 trans fats, so it must be healthy...
KK is completely overrated. Too oversweet.
Dunkin', and even supermarket donuts (Shoppers) are better.
Entenmann's chocolate crumb for my money. But nothing in the universe beats a Krispy Kreme fresh off the line.
I don't get this story. The county told them to stop dumping their waste, so they did. Ever since they've been trucking the stuff to a treatment facility. So where's the conflict? Is the county only now realizing the damage that was done and trying to seek damages? And this scenario could happen to any food manufacturing plant. It has nothing to do with the health content (or lack thereof) of their doughnuts.
This sounds like the same old story - government is slow to enforce regulations or penalties; company therefore thinks they are doing things by the book; government catches up, orders a change in behavior; company complies; government realizes it screwed up and tries to make up for its incompetance by going after the company retroactively.
No, not true.
It was illegal to begin with and it's their responsibility to know this. When FFX caught on they told KK to stop- that they were in violation- and they perhaps KK did.
But this is about back damages.
The timeline isn't clear to me and I'm not claiming the company did or didn't act wrongly, but lack of a violation is rarely evidence of compliance.
Also, it could be that the previous alleged disposal had adverse effects which did not manifest until recently.
I don't care what stories you make up about those sugary dollops of yum. They are perfect, fallout be damned.
I am one of the few and proud that can say that I don't 'em. They forgot to mention the CHUD SPLOOGE content.
(Corrected edition)I am one of the few and proud that can say that I don't EAT 'em. They forgot to mention the CHUD SPLOOGE content.
I'll gladly sacrifice a muni water system for the gift of delicious that is an Original Glazed.
Only 200 calories, and chock full of awesome.
The building permit for that property was issued in 2004. At that time ALL commercial restaurants were required to grease interceptors in that would catch the floor drains and floor sinks in the cooking area. They would have had to take the grease and either dump it down a open sewer lid or a toilet to get it into the system.
Wait, what?!?!? Donuts are unhealthy?!?!? Does the mainstream media know about this yet?
Live forever or eat donuts . . . hmm . . . I can't do the former, so I'll settle for the latter.
I actually don't like them...the grease they use makes me sick. I agree that DD is a much better choice.
I actually don't like them...the grease they use makes me sick. I agree that DD is a much better choice.
Anybody else actually read that nutritional info PDF? Some of the numbers are off (same amount of fat calculated as a different percentage of the recommended daily value, some columns obviously swapped, etc.)... not that I honestly expected Krispy Kreme to care about nutrition, but this is just sloppy. Sloppy like a delicious glazed donut. Good to know that the times I've eaten four of these at once, I wasn't exceeding my RDA of anything except sat fat.
I don't like em, too damn sugary. I prefer Dunkin Donuts, being from New England (or Bess Eaton, but I think they are out of business now).