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by robert szappanos » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:55 pm

:lol: Hey if you go in the morning...The Westport road Walmart has great dounuts.....Meijers used to have good ones also but have not had any from them in a while...You do not have to go to a dounut shop to get good dounuts..... :lol:
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by Aaron Newton » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:14 pm

I've had doughnuts from several Wal-marts before. Never really cared for them. There are several things I still enjoy out of Wal-mart's deli, believe it or not, but never liked the doughnuts.

When I was growing up and lived in Highview our favorite doughnuts were actually from the Valu on Outerloop.
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by Charles W. » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:26 pm

robert szappanos wrote:do not have to go to a dounut shop to get good dounuts..... :lol:


I agree--don't trust specialists.

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by Ron Johnson » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:27 pm

robert szappanos wrote::lol: Hey if you go in the morning...The Westport road Walmart has great dounuts.....Meijers used to have good ones also but have not had any from them in a while...You do not have to go to a dounut shop to get good dounuts..... :lol:

I wonder where the Wal-Mart donuts are made? A donut shop in China?
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by robert szappanos » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:42 pm

I guess it shows you lack of knowledge on this topic....They make and bake them in each store...They have there own Bakery in each store that actually have Human Beings making dounuts from scratch.....O and ther cakes are like that also....Stop by early in the morning and observe somtimes....l :lol:
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by Ron Johnson » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:39 am

robert szappanos wrote:I guess it shows you lack of knowledge on this topic....They make and bake them in each store...They have there own Bakery in each store that actually have Human Beings making dounuts from scratch.....O and ther cakes are like that also....Stop by early in the morning and observe somtimes....l :lol:


you got me Robert. I need to fess up. I am ignorant in the inner workings of a Wal-Mart. While I do know that they open stores in small rural communites and put all the locally owned stores out of business, then hire those store owners on a part time basis at minimum wage, and then enjoy booming sales while the town square slowly gets boarded up, and then tax payers have to pay to widen the small rural road that Wal-Mart built its store on because of the increased traffic, and then when Wal-Mart abandons that huge hulking structure because they have built a super-duper Wal-Mart in the next county over the structure just sits there because it isn't suitable for any other use. actually, Wal-Mart kind of works like cancer.
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The Matrix.

by Doogy R » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:52 am

Ron Johnson wrote:
robert szappanos wrote:I guess it shows you lack of knowledge on this topic....They make and bake them in each store...They have there own Bakery in each store that actually have Human Beings making dounuts from scratch.....O and ther cakes are like that also....Stop by early in the morning and observe somtimes....l :lol:


you got me Robert. I need to fess up. I am ignorant in the inner workings of a Wal-Mart. While I do know that they open stores in small rural communites and put all the locally owned stores out of business, then hire those store owners on a part time basis at minimum wage, and then enjoy booming sales while the town square slowly gets boarded up, and then tax payers have to pay to widen the small rural road that Wal-Mart built its store on because of the increased traffic, and then when Wal-Mart abandons that huge hulking structure because they have built a super-duper Wal-Mart in the next county over the structure just sits there because it isn't suitable for any other use. actually, Wal-Mart kind of works like cancer.


Ron, I don't know if you're a fan of the Matrix movies, but what you describe is eerily close to what Mr. Smith describes as the effect humans have on planet Earth. I think he's rather accurate. Here is the quote.

“I’d like to share with you a revelation I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure.”
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by Leah S » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:52 am

Interesting . . .because when I was a student at Sullivan in the pastry program, a couple of the young students worked at a WalMart to pay their tuition, and they said the cakes came from a central commissary, frozen and were finished (iced and decorated) at the store.
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Scratch Baking at the Wal-Mart?

by Dan Thomas » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:11 am

I've been to the Wal-mart grocery in St Matthew's close to a couple of hundred times and have never seen anything in the bakery-deli that would lead me to beleave that they do any "scratch" baking there. No big stand mixers for dough, no big flour or sugar bins. However they do have several large proof boxes for reconsitiuting par-baked, frozen items(which are not bad these days)If they are making anything from scratch(which I highly doubt)It most certanly comes from a box, kinda like Bisqick.

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Re: The Matrix.

by Ron Johnson » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:41 am

Doogy R wrote:
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robert szappanos wrote:I guess it shows you lack of knowledge on this topic....They make and bake them in each store...They have there own Bakery in each store that actually have Human Beings making dounuts from scratch.....O and ther cakes are like that also....Stop by early in the morning and observe somtimes....l :lol:


you got me Robert. I need to fess up. I am ignorant in the inner workings of a Wal-Mart. While I do know that they open stores in small rural communites and put all the locally owned stores out of business, then hire those store owners on a part time basis at minimum wage, and then enjoy booming sales while the town square slowly gets boarded up, and then tax payers have to pay to widen the small rural road that Wal-Mart built its store on because of the increased traffic, and then when Wal-Mart abandons that huge hulking structure because they have built a super-duper Wal-Mart in the next county over the structure just sits there because it isn't suitable for any other use. actually, Wal-Mart kind of works like cancer.


Ron, I don't know if you're a fan of the Matrix movies, but what you describe is eerily close to what Mr. Smith describes as the affect humans have on planet Earth. I think he's rather accurate. Here is the quote.

“I’d like to share with you a revelation I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure.”


damn, that is right on point.
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by Leah S » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:21 pm

Dan, I was gonna say that too. If there is any baking going on at WalMart, and I seriously doubt there is, as it would not be cost efficient, it would be coming from those 50 pound bags of cake mix. Chemical soup if you ask me. As much as the beer guys are purists about what they do, I am all about cake.
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by robert szappanos » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:16 pm

The grocery stores do not have a bakery..and the cakes are made in store.....As far as the snmall towm stuff....you are right but hey get over it ...The days of the small town stuff is dead and will probably never come back.....If you need a fix go to Madisin Indiana and walk main street....I liked the days when all was closed on sunday and you spent the day with the family.....But thats gone and wont come back again....I liked when gas was 19 cents a gallon....but it wont come back again....I like when you can buy a new car for 1995.00...But that wont come back again....Get out of the past and live for the current and the future.... :roll: Speaking of wal mart....got a kick a few months ago and a well known dougnut shop on Bardstown Road in Fern Creek....What was on the shelf.....GREAT VALUE FLOUR AND SUGAR....among other things....What is that you say...That is the Wal Mart Store Brand of products.....Quality all the way....Sure yea....
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by Ron Johnson » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:41 pm

Robert, adjusted for inflation new cars are cheaper now than they ever have been. Your analogies aren't really analogies.

I, for one, am not willing to roll over and play dead for those bastards from Arkansas.
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by Doug Chin » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:10 pm

Nords is the best, but Sugar & Spice Donut Shop at 5613 Bardstown Rd (Fern Creek Area) has to be a close second.
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Re: The Matrix.

by David Clancy » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:28 pm

Doogy R wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
robert szappanos wrote:I guess it shows you lack of knowledge on this topic....They make and bake them in each store...They have there own Bakery in each store that actually have Human Beings making dounuts from scratch.....O and ther cakes are like that also....Stop by early in the morning and observe somtimes....l :lol:


you got me Robert. I need to fess up. I am ignorant in the inner workings of a Wal-Mart. While I do know that they open stores in small rural communites and put all the locally owned stores out of business, then hire those store owners on a part time basis at minimum wage, and then enjoy booming sales while the town square slowly gets boarded up, and then tax payers have to pay to widen the small rural road that Wal-Mart built its store on because of the increased traffic, and then when Wal-Mart abandons that huge hulking structure because they have built a super-duper Wal-Mart in the next county over the structure just sits there because it isn't suitable for any other use. actually, Wal-Mart kind of works like cancer.


Ron, I don't know if you're a fan of the Matrix movies, but what you describe is eerily close to what Mr. Smith describes as the effect humans have on planet Earth. I think he's rather accurate. Here is the quote.

“I’d like to share with you a revelation I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure.”
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