DanielP

These donuts have been out in Sydney for some time now but the first store opened in Melbourne a couple of months ago, the store in Narre Warren features a 24 hour drive through service that is apparently a specialty for only Sydney and Melbourne. The donut itself was fantastic, but only for the first half. I'm not the biggest sweets man on the planet and by the time I got about half way I was struggling, the amount of fat that must be injected into that donut was phenomenal. By the time I had finished it I felt so sick and even had to wait 30 minutes in the store just to let my stomach settle so that I could drive again.

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The first day that the store opened I was listening to the radio and there was a talk back segment on that had listeners call up about the stupid things they had done. One guy called up and said that he had decided to get a krispy kreme on the way to walk through the drive through, he then proceeded to state that he had been waiting for 3 hours.

The popularity of the donuts is amazing, rather voluptuous housewives in floral dresses were buying boxes of these donuts at a time, I overheard a lady say that she had driven all the way from Coburg to Narre Warren, one of the store locations (a very solid drive) just to buy these donuts. That then got me thinking, why would the corporation not open stores elsewhere? The popularity surely justifies the need for more stores, or at least closer to the city. I asked around and apparently no council wants to have the obesity factory in their jurisdiction. Fair enough

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Absinthe

August 23rd 2006 02:46

I recently tried absinthe and while I had heard a lot about it I really wasn't prepared for what it would taste like. Almost everyone is familiar with the greenish tinge associated with the drink, the strong alcohol content (the one I tried was apparently the strongest legal absinthe in Australia 70%) and to not such a great extent the "wormwood" (the supposedly mind altering ingredient in the drink).

Straight up it tasted like mint Listerine that had been diluted with methylated spirits, very strong stuff indeed. Later I tried a shot of absinthe which had the ice cold water poured over a sugar cube on the spoon (resulting in a milky coloured liquid) and set a light, which tasted infinitely better, actually quite enjoyable.

Absinthe with spoon

Absinthe has always been associated with hallucinations and while I had drunk what I thought was a decent amount I didn't manage to see any leprechauns trying to steal my wallet or similar. The drink has also had its fair share of negative connotations as it was blamed for a lot of violent crime and was banned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While undistilled wormwood oil contains a substance called thujone (the main component apparently responsible for the hallucinations [which there is currently no evidence for], often used to flavour food and in high doses causes kidney failure) I am inclined to believe that the problems associated with the drink are more likely due to the very high alcohol content.

All said and done I did enjoy my first absinthe experience and while I didn't see anything freaky I do believe that if I'm offered it again I will definitely give it another shot. However for $22.50 for 100 mL at the boutique liquor store that has just opened up in Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne I don't think it will be my next purchase.

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