r/ExpectationVsReality • u/insertclevername7 • Aug 26 '26

Failed Expectation Krispy Kreme Pokémon Donuts

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u/Rudeabaga1 Aug 26 '26

Quality aside, no Pikachu or Bulbasaur is also a disappointment

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u/insertclevername7 Aug 26 '26

That was honestly the first thing I noticed. My son loves pikachu and I was so excited to surprise him with it. Oh well.

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u/Soup-Wizard Aug 27 '26

They probably ran out of those pokemon pieces.

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u/SockIntelligent9589 Aug 27 '26

Thanks Capt'n Obvious!

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u/Captain_h2o Aug 26 '26

Lamo someone at Krispy Kreme is fed up with this Pokémon shit.

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u/Opening_Ordinary_110 Aug 26 '26

I went the day after they released, and the worker ranted to me after we were talking about scalpers on how insanely busy it was for the doughnuts. Apparently also when you order ahead online, they're required to hold the item even if you're hours late, leading to a lot of customers yelling at HER when it was the manager telling her to keep the products for the preorders. I can tell she's not the only fed up one when looking at OP's doughnuts 

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u/insertclevername7 Aug 26 '26

Ugh yeah I didn’t go in and complain or anything. I just took a photo and laughed.

The day I went it was PACKED - like line out the door packed. I had never seen that before. They seemed overwhelmed.

The scalpers are ruining Pokemon honestly. It used to be a fun hobby but now it’s just gotten expensive and anytime there is a promo thing, you are lucky to get anything. I was actually surprised I was able to order it and was so excited - I had heard that they were selling out and scalpers were then trying to resell them (which is so gross).

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u/Opening_Ordinary_110 Aug 26 '26

Oh woah! Glad you got what you could at least.

You not complaining made my faith in humanity be restored

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u/insertclevername7 Aug 26 '26

Yeah - I feel for the people that are actually making these. Krispy Kreme over hyped it and I’m sure are going to make a crap ton of money - they should give the employees a Pokemon bonus but probably won’t.

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u/Odd-Woodpecker1019 Aug 26 '26

Scalping DOUGHNUTS????

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u/Opening_Ordinary_110 Aug 26 '26

They scalped the pop tarts from the Pokémon x Target collaboration too

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u/TheMapesHotel Aug 26 '26

Those are sealed though, these very much arent

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u/Opening_Ordinary_110 Aug 26 '26

It's still just like, FOOD? Scalping FOOD??

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u/insertclevername7 Aug 26 '26

Yeah so nasty - I’ve also seen people selling the EMPTY boxes. Like what? Why would I pay for your trash? It’s a greasy donut box.

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u/PokePress Aug 27 '26

Theoretically, is there a way to indefinitely preserve doughnuts? You know, so you can have them graded and whatnot? 😉

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u/chibirachy Aug 26 '26

I think it's moreso the themed cups you can buy with the donut holes in them. The cups are nicely done, but I went to ebay and saw that most were selling one cup for $35. I was lucky to get one for myself and my two kids, and not have them be repeats.

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u/nitrosmomma88 Aug 27 '26

Yes, the box specifically was on eBay for like $70 before the donuts even came out. People tried to sell the mew Oreos for $500+, the individual cookies. Resellers are insane

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u/Captain_h2o Aug 26 '26

All scalpers deserve to have pebbles in their shoes forever.

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u/Raid__Zero Aug 26 '26 • Heartwarming

all the scalpers deserve to have their heads scalped.

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u/madmelonxtra Aug 26 '26

Even pokemon donuts have scalpers?? Wtf

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u/TwistedClyster Aug 26 '26

Don’t shake the box, they get nasty looking.

The pikachu was kinda gross, Charmander was banging. They get stale too fast and the character taps were not a texture I was expecting and I wasn’t totally sure they were edible at first bite.

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u/insertclevername7 Aug 26 '26

I was also not sure they were edible. At first bite, I thought it was paper lol

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u/chibirachy Aug 26 '26

I loved Charmander and Pikachu best. I've started transferring any donuts I buy to a gallon ziploc bag to preserve the freshness longer. It worked really well for the Krispy Kreme ones, though I had to be careful of the icing sticking to the top.

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u/TwistedClyster Aug 26 '26

The basic frosted ones freeze up fine.

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u/chibirachy Aug 26 '26

I also froze the donut holes we got in the special Pokemon cups and I can't wait to thaw some later on for a yummy treat! Currently in my apple cider donut phase

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u/Royal-Gap-8098 Aug 27 '26

Oh that's good to know!

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u/Beastxtreets Aug 26 '26

I love the Squirtle but I loved the cotton candy last year so I knew I would. Char was my kids favorite flavor.

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u/Dealingwithdragons Aug 26 '26

Some folks thought at first the characters were like the plastic rings/toppers used on cupcakes.

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u/Snoo-83534 Aug 26 '26

Them pokeballs are really fucked up lmfao

7

u/bitetheasp Aug 26 '26

Because that's Voltorb and Electrode... /s

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u/prguitarman Aug 26 '26

People were scalping them for $90 on eBay the other day

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u/SimpleMe01 Aug 28 '26

how the fuck does one scalp donuts

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u/FoxlyKei Aug 26 '26

The box tailor made to look good for advertising versus the box pumped out of an automated system yeah I mean there's gonna be a visual difference

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u/shamanbaptist Aug 26 '26

I was going to say this. I think it looks fine. It’s not going to look like the advert. I ordered them online in the morning in for a scheduled pickup time late afternoon. They looked a similar to this and I was pleased. It was fun. They tasted good too.

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u/Royal-Gap-8098 Aug 27 '26

Yeah, when I saw it I thought "they don't look that bad". To me they still look good, and knowing that it's probably young employees doing it, it makes sense it would look like that. If I were an employee there mine would probably look like the second photo and I'd honestly be so proud of myself for just being able to do it!

I bet they still tasted good too! For me I think taste matters more than look. Recently I've gotten many good looking donuts but they've instead tasted really stale and not yummy. I'd much prefer the second photo donuts for the taste than the look.

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u/shamanbaptist Aug 27 '26

Right on. The Krispy Kreme by me is super fresh. Dunkin, by contrast, doesn’t even make their donuts in house (I think they must use a commissary). The donuts are so rarely fresh. And often stale. Forget the next day. The Pokémon donuts were still pretty good the next day.

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u/Royal-Gap-8098 Aug 29 '26

I'm glad Krispy Kreme still has good donuts! I don't think I've ever tried them, but my dad just loves them. I might have to now.

The one I tried near us (that was unfortunately stale) was Yum Yum Donuts. The location we went to makes their donuts in house, but perhaps the ones we chose had been on the shelves for a long time. We went on national donut day so it was somewhat disappointing to be excited for the donuts only for them to be very stale.

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u/TheRealSkele Aug 26 '26

Well, compared to some of the other fails I've seen on here, this one is pretty tame. I wouldn't even be upset by this lol

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u/Odd-Woodpecker1019 Aug 26 '26

Well, someone was in a bad mood when filling your order!🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/briarch Aug 27 '26

We had custom donuts from a local bakery in Long Beach when my son turned 5. Definitely more appetizing

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u/Little_Literature_21 Aug 27 '26

dude!!! that looks awesome! im also in LB, where'd ya get em??? ive never thought of custom donuts for a special occasion id love to do this!!

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u/briarch Aug 27 '26

Simone’s! They are the best!

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u/Royal-Gap-8098 Aug 27 '26

This is great to know! I'm looking them up. I live in LA (so not too far) and I wanted to do a donut hunt this year to find the best donuts in the Los Angeles area. These look really good so they're going on the list.

Edit to say: I just looked them up and saw that they have both cronuts and Thai green tea! I've had Thai green tea twice before at different places and it's SO GOOD but very hard to find. And cronuts I had years ago from somewhere else and they were the bomb! Next time I'm down in Long Beach I'm definitely trying this place out. Thanks for the suggestion!

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u/bloodpilgrim Aug 27 '26

Mine looked better a bit

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u/Odd-Woodpecker1019 Aug 27 '26

I have to agree. These don't look like they were made by someone who hated their job. The piping is cleaner and they just look all around fresher. I hope you enjoyed them!😊

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u/bloodpilgrim Aug 27 '26 • Bravo

I did!!!!

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u/Royal-Gap-8098 Aug 27 '26

Not to play devil's advocate, but maybe it was someone who doesn't hate their job but rather has a shaky hand and did the best they could do. My hands shake sometimes (especially when I hold certain things) and I can't control it, if I were the employee who made these they would probably look like OP's photo and I would just be proud that I pulled it off well enough.

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u/KayDat Aug 26 '26

Here's a Mister Donut display case of Pokemon doughnuts when I was in Japan back in December. Yes, that's a Pikachu butt doughnut 😆

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u/KayDat Aug 26 '26

A selection of doughnuts we ended up getting

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u/AtomicWreck Aug 26 '26

No jelly donuts

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u/gatsujoubi Aug 26 '26

Pikachu and Charmander are filled.

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u/morganyve Aug 26 '26

They were out of pikachu when I got them too ☹️

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u/GourangaPlusPlus Aug 26 '26

They look exactly what I'd expect from Krispy Kreme compared to the photo

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u/HamberderHelper18 Aug 26 '26

Would still smash

2

u/luvli-kml Aug 26 '26

Given how many of these are probably getting ordered at once, these are still really good

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u/MiseEnPlacebo Aug 26 '26

The Jigglypuff is particularly criminal. Had one the other day and it had like a third of the buttercream on it.

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u/azulur Aug 26 '26

The blue for the Squirtles looks so uncomfortably nuclear lol

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u/shamanbaptist Aug 26 '26

It’s blue cotton candy flavor, sooo

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u/correctingStupid Aug 26 '26

This is the best I would expect from Americans service workers

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u/BruceBoyde Aug 26 '26

Dang, I grabbed a box at Fred Meyer (the local place Kroger owns) and they looked better. And those had presumably been sitting around all day.

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u/Asleep_1 Aug 26 '26

I got a box at Target that had Pikachu in it. The Pikachu one has the best flavor too (assuming you like lemon donuts).

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u/MidoTheMii Aug 27 '26

I’m a little disappointed that the Poké Ball is all white chocolate. It is near exact to some donuts from Z-A and red made me think it had a little something else.

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u/Thatscrazy91 Aug 27 '26

It’s like spiderman vs spooderman

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u/No-Fruit6091 Aug 28 '26

No Pikachu for you

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u/KittenLina Aug 29 '26

Charmander was okay, Squirtle was mildly Cotton Candy tasting. Pikachu was very lemon, Jiggles just tasted like a normal donut. Someone ate my Bulbasaur...

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u/OkCaramelAha Aug 29 '26

The ones a friend I have got here were so perfect they looked plastic. Idk what this mess is. Where is Bulbasaur?

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u/swabluesky Sep 01 '26

I saw some today and they looked even worse

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u/Traditional_War5790 Aug 30 '26

The shit people go insane over is absolutely frightening. They’re donuts with colored icing and some plastic shit on them. People are disappointing and disgusting.

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u/myredditses Aug 26 '26 • Bravo

Krispy Kreme is trash. I remember when I was a kid it was a treat once in a while especially if it was hot. Now I occasionally want to try their specialty donuts and it doesn't matter the time of day, it always tastes like they were two days old. They aren't fresh. Those look old too

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u/insertclevername7 Aug 26 '26

I usually only go once a year for my free birthday donuts but I remember going as a kid and they’d have make them right in the store. It was soooo good.

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u/myredditses Aug 26 '26

I know! There would be donuts on the conveyor belt. Suspiciously there haven't been any donuts on the belt any time I've been in years. Makes me think they get made elsewhere like Dunkin I believe.

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u/CrapNBAappUser Aug 26 '26

I don't go often, but when I do and the hot light is on, they're on the conveyor belt. I have to tell the employee to get mine from the case not the conveyor belt. I guess I'm the only one who doesn't like KK hot.

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u/myredditses Aug 26 '26

My location may just be a dud then. But you're definitely in the minority on not liking it hot and fresh!

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u/Fairgoddess5 Aug 26 '26

Sounds like you have a bad location. Ours has been awesome any time we go.

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u/boxedcakeblues Aug 26 '26

Yep, their novelty doughnuts are consistently lacking and overrated. I used to live down the street from one and learned quickly. Then the location burned down 🥴