Friday, March 27, 2009

Sugar porn comes to Al Ain

Krispy Kreme opened a near where I currently live. Unfortunately for them, they chose a location far off the traffic path. To get to their store customers have to park the car and walk almost 2 blocks. I think that's a bad location for a donut shop.

This is a beautiful picture. It had been over a year since I last had a Krispy Kreme. Like Pavlov's dog, I was salivating before inhaling the first donut. By the fourth donut - with sugar flying everywhere - I stopped to exhale.

On Thursday mornings my colleagues gather for a coffee break. The department purchases the drinks and food. I added the Krispy Kreme's. The point of this picture: America's businesses have permeated cultures across the world. Besides Dunkin' Donuts there's Florida Orange Juice, Pepsi products and Seven Up. Only the foods wrapped in plastic on the left are local.

Ann and I have discussed what it must be like for someone living here from Europe. Are their favorite foods here? Nooo. Is their equivelant of Coke here? Nooo. We Americans feel right at home. Too bad for them.

2 comments:

  1. After all those donuts, you're going to have deavily douse with Cinnamon Scope.

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  2. I don't know how you can eat those awful things (they are waaaaaay too sweet for me), but I can assure you it will not help eliminate the bottoming out incidents you have recently had with cars!!

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