For The Love of Hate

For the love of hate. That is a thing these days. Okay, it’s been a thing for a while. Something new or new to an area pops up and after it is met with praise the haters gotta….. Wait for it….. Hate. Hate. Hate.

Yeah, I Taylor Swifted all over that. Recently, Dunkin Donuts came to Southern California. After visiting Boston I was super stoked to learn the cities beloved iced coffee and donut stop was making its way west. Starbucks has never been my thing and the only worth while donuts are 20 minutes away in Glendora at Donut Man. The idea of having a quality cup of coffee, to my standards, and Boston Creme donuts that aren’t greasy or stale made me more happy than it probably should’ve.

Funny thing, the boo birds had to be heard about this too. First I was told that everything (in terms of donuts) was frozen and that somehow made it bad. Starbucks puts things in a microwave right in front of you and no once complains. Most fast food joints do the same. Also, like I had seen in Boston with my own eyes, the donuts are made fresh everyday my local Dunks. Yup, Dunks, deal with it.

The next objection was that any mom and pop shop made a better donut. Umm…. Isn’t the end game for almost every mom and pop shop to become a chain and live high off the hog with all the crazy donut money they had raked in? That’s what happened to Kripsy Kreme, which is essentially fried lard, and Winchells and the Dunks. I bet Krispy Kreme doesn’t give to farts that I called their donuts lard. I also don’t hate on people who love that place, I just don’t visit it often.

Dunkin Donuts donuts are light and fluffy and not weighed down by excessive amounts of grease. Even my beloved Donut Man doesn’t meet the level of ungreasy that Dunks does.

There are things I don’t like. Five Guys is one. Pieology is another. Many people go crazy for those places and I have no issue with that. I just don’t go as often or at all without them. If I get asked, I can tell you why I like In & Out more than I like Five Guys but I won’t make a public display of it.

I’m not even a Swift fan but she got it right, the haters are gonna hate times three. I don’t have grease to shake, shake, shake, off my hands so I’ll just slowly sip, sip, sip my delicious iced coffee and give my three dollars and change to a place I like.