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DUBLIN HAS DEVELOPED a fondness for doughnuts over the past few years, but the opening of few outlets has matched the Krispy Kreme madness of the last 24 hours.
The outlet in Blanchardstown shopping centre opened its doors at 7am on Wednesday to a queue of several hundred people.
Doughnut enthusiasts took to social media to document the experience, with several parents it seems, roped in to get there before school began.
Local Fine Gael councillor Ted Leddy was one of the first inside the doors and said he wasn’t prepared for all the fuss.
I wasn’t quite prepared for what a big deal it was. There were about 300 people queuing at 7am, some had been there since 4am.
Leddy says he’s not a “doughnut man himself” but is happy about the store’s opening:
I was happy to be there because it’s 120 jobs and a lot of them are local jobs.
The craze shows no sign of dying down just yet, with queues reported from early once again this morning.
Martha Dowling from Clonee said her children bribed her to pick some of the sugary treats up on her way home from work yesterday.
My kids made a deal with me, they would clean downstairs in my house if I got them a box of Krispy Kremes on the way home.
The new outlet has a drive-thru facility and Dowling said when she arrived at about 7pm yesterday evening, she was warned she may have to queue for up to an hour. However she got through the queue within 20 minutes and secured a mixed box for her entrepreneurial children.
Dowling says the house was “lovely and clean” by the time she got home.
Despite the queues, a spokesperson for AA Roadwatch says there hasn’t been any noticeable traffic disruption as a result of the opening. The AA’s Barry Aldworth said: “We’re aware of the long queues, but it doesn’t seem to be having any actual impact on traffic.”
In a statement, Krispy Kreme said it was ”overjoyed to have people from all around Ireland share the excitement of opening day”.
Leddy said he wouldn’t judge anyone for their enthusiasm about the opening: “It seems to be a bit of a phenomenon, it was a bit odd, will it last or not I don’t know.”
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What is the human race coming to,we are slowly becoming Americanized
@dick dastardly: A touch overdramatic, no?
@dick dastardly: I was just thinking the same. You’d wanna be some sad case to queue for a donut opening so you can brag about it on Instagram or whatever.
@Clifford Brennan: No
@Jonathan Power: pffft. it’s called ‘insta’ now. where have you been?!
@dick dastardly: are you Dick Dastardly the American cartoon villain. Are you sure you are not being Americanized yourself there Dicky ?
@A Sharks Tempo: was reading a great book recently called ‘Hooked, how to build habit forming products’. Very interesting the techniques the ‘hooks’ these companies use to get people addicted to their products, fascinating stuff really makes you look at the whole thing from a different angle.
@Jonathan Power: each to their own dick.
Doughnuts have been native to Ireland since the 80′s at least. Quinnsworth did a lovely (looking back now, brutal) doughnut…
@Clifford Brennan: Have you listened to kids talking lately?? Full American accents on a lot of them.
@dick dastardly: Well were already Asianised with the obsession with Asian based cars, tvs, cameras, computers, phones, fridges etc. While every kind of food ingredient and material for the above mentioned things can be sourced in the eu.
@Clifford Brennan: I think queuing for a donut is a tad over dramatic, yes?
@A Sharks Tempo: Living life & not constantly documenting it.
@Jimmy jones: I think he was pointing to the fact that the Krispy Kreme brand(I’ve never heard of it) was already very popular here even though they’ve only just opened their first doughnut shop(or if you like, ‘donut store’). The reason for this is likely due to American pop culture, or, the Americanisation of Dublin and to a lesser extent, Ireland.
@Don Juan: Native since at least the sixties. I can remember freshly made, sugar coated doughnuts, still warm, in Butlins Holiday Camp in Mosney, washed down with a small bottle (glass) of Coca Cola. At that stage, food of the gods for a small child.
That has to be the saddest queue ever.
How very pathetic.
@Cheapy Ryan: yeah true … still wouldn’t say no if somebody brought one home to me though
@Cheapy Ryan: totally agree, we( as a nation)are sad if its come to this
We’re doomed as a speices…
@A Sharks Tempo: Yeah even our spellcheckers are letting us down.
@A Sharks Tempo: I deliberately spelled ‘species’ incorrectly as furthur proof of our cultural decline by the way, so no need to point that out…
@A Sharks Tempo: In the interest of honesty, I accidentally spelled ‘further’ incorrectly in my reply. Onwards and upwards!
@A Sharks Tempo: You may have initiated Skynet’s takeover. Oh well, I suppose our robot overlords will feed us plenty doughnuts, or will it be ‘donuts’ shortly?
@A Sharks Tempo: as a speices???
Sad. Really sad.
Shocking scenes in the middle of an obesity crisis. A minute on the lips , a lifetime on the lips
@Mickey Finn: hips. Fat fingers syndrome
@Mickey Finn: most ironic typo yet.
@Mickey Finn: Fat fingers? Too many donuts?
@Mickey Finn: is that Mickey Finn? Or Mickey Phat?
@Mickey Finn: at least standing balancing their bodyweight in that queue will burn a few calories
I was in the petrol station this morning a a father was buying his 6 or 7 your old girl a can of coke a pack of crisps and a bar for her school lunch. So sad
@Colm Vambeck: Worst thing is im not shocked, my 7 year old has only this year had his first taste of a fizzy drink and only 7-up if we go cinema water is his favourite drink ive seen coke in toddlers bottles before
@Colm Vambeck: Shame in the school
for Not having a healthy eating
Policy!! And shame on the parent for same!!
@Patrick Mulligan: I saw a seriously obese young mother in the local park one summers day, giving a six month old baby boy coke cola from the bottle she was drinking from. Awful to see. Talk about setting a child up for a life of obesity, bullying and ill health. Very sad.
@Patrick Mulligan: 7up is still full of sugar. Coke zero or pepsi max is the only real sugarless option
How much was this full page advert?
I do fear for the future of this country at times
Once the novelty wears off i cant see how a 24 hour donut place is sustainable
@Carl: Garda also work night shifts
@Carl: Stoners.
@Carl: it will wear off, it did in the US!
Whoever queued overnight is a right doughnut
Sad people
Dafuq?
4 articles down , the stress of trying to keep your kids fed . I guess this is just symptomatic of the division in Ireland’s society today . Very sad
Great future business opportunities in treating poor diet related behaviour.
Sheep
As if we werent fat enough. Honestly Ireland get a grip!
@John McSweeney: bet they wouldn’t be queing if it was Slimfast
So sad. Reminds me of the old joke.
How do you fleece sheep ?
Bring out a new IPhone.
Alternative Reality ?
Is there a chemical that causes such weakness of intellect ?
First world problems. They sleep on the streets while others que for doughnuts
Fatness Emergency
Are the AA taking the p*ss? I was in the Blanchardstown Centre last night to go to the cinema, and the traffic not just in the centre but the surrounding area was like Christmas rush hour traffic!
Had them in America recently.Nicest donuts I’ve ever had Cant even describe how tasty they are.But queuing like that for them is a bit mental.
@Choppy Nagle: They taste nice because they put shocking chemicals in them, google them and you’d never touch them again.
@Mark McDermott: not to mention loaded with sugar – nice once in a while but that’s about it,
Guess you need a nice treat while sitting at home watching jeremy kyle
bit sad the first donut going to someone who isn’t a doughnut person
Well you might as well enjoy them now, before they have the cancer warnings on them!
That teddy whatever name needs a check up
Sad!!!!!
Opening of a doughnut shop? Should this article not be marked as ‘sponsored’? What eejit is going to believe it’s not!?
How did Irish people get like this? Depressing
Can someone correct me on this, Dunkin Donuts opened on Grafton street in the late 1980s but closed a year later due to lack of trade?
@sean farrell: they’re mistake was to place the shop in a moderately educated environment. This store will flourish in blanch.
@Steven Fitzpatrick: says the man who can’t spell.
@sean farrell: That Dunkin Donuts was open for years mate. Didnt close till the early or mid noughties!
Were they free
Obesity Island here we come
Why the f##k would you ? Come on people. Ffs
@Tony O Neill: and they all get to vote
Seriously sick people
It’s a fun story .the only thing sad is all the negatively
Zeitgeist ….
Hungry hoors.
Obesity island here we come
So this is what it has come to. Is anyone else worried about the future?
@Andy mc Laughlin: Yeap but I drink heavily so I don’t have to worry about it.
Queues are still outrageous.
Should be an obesity tax on them to pay for those claiming disability due to their obesity caused by eating too much and not exercising their fat a
Ted Leddy is like Fine Gael – all donut with a dirty big hole in the middle.
Great unpaid advert !
They are the nicest doughnuts I have ever tasted unlike anything else on market.
Morons
i was in blanchardstown shopping center 2 weeks ago and remarked how many people were walking around with krispy kreme boxes. if it only opened wednesday there must have been an outlet for these before that
Nuts!!
Would ye all dry your eyes and stop moanin! Don’t buy a donut if you don’t want one and let others do what they want….there’s bigger things to get annoyed at!
Losers
@Jesus Christ: I wouldn’t say losers, idiots id say.
@Mark McDermott: Brave man contracting Jesus Christ
@John O’Connor: Im hoping he sends me to hell, it would defo be better craic there than upstairs…not that I believe in that nonsense.
Thinking about opening Broccoli Doughnuts next year, anyone up for it?
Obesity Island here we come
They are some of the best donuts on the planet but not worth queuing for on day one. They will still taste the same on day 2 or 200.
Few grenades, sorted
The first 100 Customers were free I believe – probably why the first day queue.
I will try them when the queues quieten – had them in the states many years ago – and were just ok – fine but I didn’t see why the fuss – bit small I thought compared to eg. Aungier Danger.
I wonder how many of these comments were posted by people waiting in the queue?
Sugar addiction queue of shame.
Unless a doughnut can make your you knows you know what for an hour straight, it ain’t worth queuing 2 days for
Hay. Obesity is a mental illness, and those who suffer from it, are entitled to life long disability benefit
Lol people on the journal are so full of hate. I think that is the real sadness of this article. Don’t let these spiteful people fool you into thinking their mindsets are the perception of the many when it is only the few who actually bother to comment:)
@sb: nah it is the view of many, queuing for an overpriced hipster donut is fairly pathetic in fairness!
Bleedin donuts standing around that long when there’s hundreds of fat sugar balls in other shops.
Fools, their donuts are pure poison. 8.4/10
Obesity Island here we come
Queuing for donuts…. A clear sign your life is empty and meaningless
“Doughnuts”?!
What is this, the 1800′s?
There was ten Garda cars parked outside and when asked why ??…The response was if it’s good enough for the N.Y.P.D. It’s good enough for us !!…
People do that just for a doughnut? WOW!
Unbelievable bunch of losers.
I can smell a rat !! I drove by the store yesterday and there was a lot of college students in the queue
Irish people love to get their hole alright
Can you get em online?
Enjoy!
The old Irish sweet tooth strikes again. Diabetes in a box. Kids ate crap in the past but they walked, ran and cycled everywhere and burned it off. Today’s kids don’t. They’re not allowed run in school playgrounds now and they’re stuck in front of PlayStation and Xbox all day. A health tsunami is coming.
I dough nut see any issue.
reminds me of the film the commitments I just saw the quee and thought you were selling drugs
Sad bast*rds
Shoot me.. Christ almighty.. what a farce
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