bobquasit | The Wheat Donuts of Poughkeepsie, NY

The stranger with calloused yet strangely delicate hands looked down into the valley. His face was grave, yet tender, as he gazed thoughtfully at the unfulfilled suburban housewife.

Tee hee!

Oh, I'm in a very "Sam" mood today (as in Sam & Max, Freelance Police). That first line was the beginning of what would have been an extremely painful parody of The Bridges of Madison County, inspired entirely by the title of this post.

But to make it relatively short and comparatively sweet - ah, the hell with it. A little more than a year ago, I wrote an entry in my pre-LJ Chatter about lost foods. And my stats program tells me that that's still one of the most popular entries of Chatter, even more popular than the issue where I talked about porn to my surprise. You'll have to scroll down or do a quick search on the page for "dunkin", though.

Anyway, I remember the whole wheat donuts as being incredibly flavorful and good; glazed, cake-style, but with a much more complex an interesting flavor. Alas, they were discontinued long ago...but not everywhere, as it turns out. When we made our recent trip down to PA, we'd stopped for the night at the Hampton Inn in Fishkill NY; in the morning we'd gone to the next-door Cracker Barrel for breakfast (their past discriminatory policies do bother me, but their pancakes can't be matched). Unfortunately the coffee did not meet Teri's high standards, so after breakfast we ended up hitting the next exit (off of I-84) to hit a Dunkin' Donuts. It was a little bit of a drive, and unfortunately they didn't have a drive-through - so I went in to get the coffee.

For a minute I thought I was having a dream, because down on the bottom rack, almost out of sight behind the sprightly young Donuteers, was a label indicating that the rack held - yes, it was true - WHOLE WHEAT DONUTS! Hosanna. Naturally I asked the young waitress (counteress? clerk?) how long they'd had the whole wheat donuts, and again when she answered "Always. Or as long as I've been here, anyway. Um, that's been two months."

I bought two, and they were just as good as I remembered. Alas, on the way back we stopped at a different Dunkin Donuts, only a few exits away (my sweetie has a bad java addiction), and they'd never heard of whole wheat donuts.

And that's the way the donut crumbles.