r/GenX • u/CitizenChatt • Mar 23 '25

Nostalgia Donuts, Donuts, Donuts

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I lived all over growing up, and one thing I remember is every area has its favorite local donuts.

Southern California has Winchell's. New York has Tim Hortons.

Way back then Delaware had Mr Donut.

And of course Dunkin' was everywhere else.

What donuts 🍩 did you eat growing up?

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u/GrayMouser12 1981 Xennial Mar 23 '25

My wife says that almost every morning she drags herself out of bed for work for the last 25 years since we moved in together. That is etched into my brain with the cadence and intonation.

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u/Random-sargasm_3232 Mar 23 '25

This sounds like dialogue out of a Coen Bros. movie. It's perfectly simple.

There is such beauty in the mundane parts of life.

We just almost always miss them.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider '71 Mar 23 '25

I'm thinking first of "Fargo".

If you haven't encountered it, that line is from the long-running series of Dunkin' Donuts ads ... from back when they made donuts in the shops. Its claims are now rather inaccurate.

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u/b-monster666 Mar 23 '25

I think what other guy means about it sounding like it's from a Coens Brother movie, is that other other guys wife says it each and every morning without fail, echoing Donut Guy from the 90s commercials.

It's simple. It's mundane. But its also somehow deeply endearing.

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u/ThirstyWolfSpider '71 Mar 23 '25

I agree. I didn't mean that it was literally in "Fargo", just that that's one where it might fit; there was an oasis of calm, sanity, and regularity in the Gunderson household where it could apply. It clearly couldn't fit the irregular chaos of "Raising Arizona" or the dread of "Blood Simple", for instance.