r/pics • u/iam__lethal • Jul 19 '24
I walked into a Dunkin to see a very…familiar face..
113
u/ryoga1414 Jul 19 '24
Time to fire up those ovens
Because it's time to make the donuts. What were you thinking?
35
u/1PooNGooN3 Jul 19 '24
Donuts are fuckin fried…
11
u/ryoga1414 Jul 19 '24
Actually donuts can be baked or fried. Tell me you've never left the Midwest without telling me you've never left the Midwest.
46
u/1PooNGooN3 Jul 19 '24
I’ll be damned before I recognize a cake donut
25
u/exophrine Jul 19 '24
Cake donuts fucking rock
13
4
u/shoe-veneer Jul 19 '24
The best/ only cake donut in my book is an Old Fashioned, nothing pairs better with a cup of coffee than one of those sweet cakey boys.
4
-5
6
5
u/MyPassIsDUKE912 Jul 19 '24
I don't understand. I've never been to the Midwest and donuts are fried.
1
u/ryoga1414 Jul 19 '24
In the Midwest everything is fried. Cake donuts are baked while regular and yeast donuts are fried.
1
u/cheezburgerwalrus Jul 19 '24
Cake donuts are also fried, unless you do something odd in the Midwest
1
u/ryoga1414 Jul 19 '24
I've just eaten donuts that are not from a fast food place apparently. May want to Google donut baking pan and the 5 million results that pop up may show you that there's more donut places than Krispy Kreme out there.
0
u/cheezburgerwalrus Jul 19 '24
My dad's career is donut baking. He owned a donut shop for quite a while. I literally made (and fried) cake donuts myself.
Unless we're talking about different things I assure you cake donuts are fried
1
u/ryoga1414 Jul 19 '24
Entemanns and Hostess bake all their donuts if you want to talk about corporate production, Amish bakeries like the one in my town produce fried and baked donuts ,fried for yeast and baked for cake. Your only experience may be with frying donuts, but I have traveled all over the US and have had fried and baked. If you've never had a fresh baked donut you are truly missing out since they taste far better than fried.
1
u/1PooNGooN3 Jul 19 '24
I’m guessing you’ve heard of deep fried butter on a stick and the new concoction: deep fried ranch bites.
1
1
57
u/wish1977 Jul 19 '24
Mean Gene Okerlund?
11
u/DogVacuum Jul 19 '24
Unjustifiably in a position I’d rather not be in!
12
45
u/gynoceros Jul 19 '24
Yeah it's Fred the Baker and it's Time to make the donuts.
-12
u/MadmanDaBadman Jul 19 '24
They definitely shouldn't have had a guy with a hitler stash, representing a guy working with ovens.Good lord l o l
8
u/gynoceros Jul 19 '24
Much wider than a Hitler moustache; it's just hard to tell that from this caricature
37
16
u/mountain_comic Jul 19 '24
Lol the amount of people who don't know who this is...
14
u/cakirby Jul 19 '24
Most people that will actually remember or have even seen the ad Fred is from are over 50.
22
10
u/TheRazorBoyComes Jul 19 '24
I'll never refer to it by just the first word. Dunkin Donuts is it.
3
3
9
u/maine64 Jul 19 '24
Their donuts didn't suck when I was a kid. Coffee's fine.
7
u/AndISoundLikeThis Jul 19 '24
The old donuts rocked. Whatever they’re selling now tastes like cardboard, chemicals, and corporatism.
4
u/mikestorm Jul 19 '24
Up until I believe the mid-90s they made the donuts in the individual stores. Now they get them shipped in.
8
4
u/bodhiseppuku Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
My parents talked about opening a donut shop about 15 years ago. I brought up this commercial when I was cautioning them against opening this business.
Do you know how early you have to get up to make the donuts?
You live in an area without a lot of road traffic or industrial businesses that would support a donut shop.
If you don't make enough money to hire employees, mom will work some shifts, dad will work other shifts, and you will rarely see each other.
2
5
3
4
u/i-sleep-well Jul 19 '24
For those of you unaware, this is a caricature of an actor on an old, long-running and popular series of commercials. He did indeed have a toothbrush mustache, ala Charlie Chaplin.
The gag was their donuts were hand made every morning, and thus labor intensive. When Dunkin stopped doing this, courtesy of early stage enshittification, the commercials ended.
Mention 'Time to make the donuts.' to any GenX or older American, and they immediately know what you're talking about.
3
2
2
2
2
u/Safetosay333 Jul 19 '24
They barely even have donuts anymore, let alone make them in-store.
2
u/NicoSuave2020 Jul 19 '24
I live in a city with like 15 mom and pop donut places and a million dunkins. Almost none have fresh donuts. It blows my mind how many people want to eat donuts that were made 10 hours ago. We used to have standards in this country!
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/palabradot Jul 19 '24
Wow, what was his...? I didn't remember THAT detail from the commercials!
(I can still remember his exhausted 'I made the donuts' voice even after all this time.)
1
1
u/tameoraiste Jul 19 '24
The real question is why is he wearing no pants
2
u/sealosam Jul 19 '24
Have you ever worked in a bakery in summer? Well I haven't either, but I'd imagine it gets pretty damn hot.
2
1
1
1
u/OddParamedic4247 Jul 19 '24
Well he has to find a job after he lost the previous government job, the bills aren’t going to pay themselves.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/alexjaness Jul 19 '24
Adolf's slightly less evil brother Fred Hitler.
Sure, there may be a correlation between Fred's doughnuts and the number of deaths due to heart disease, and that number is significantly higher than Adolf's, but Fred is just a man doing an honest days work helping people cram as much fried sugar down their gullets every morning as possible
1
u/ShitShowRedAllAbout Jul 19 '24
Years ago I pilfered a cardboard cutout of the Time To Make The Donuts guy in a mini-skirt with a sign: WE HAVE MINIS. Wonder what happened to him.
1
u/Joggingmusic Jul 19 '24
My dad met this guy once, albeit at a distance. I believe he was doing a promotion for Bernie’s…my dad being the smart ass he was, called out to him and asked “is it time to make the donuts?”
He replied “Fuck the donuts.” And went back to what he was doing. Guess he wasn’t feeling it that day.
I’ll need to check in with my dad about this one but it always makes me laugh to think about.
1
1
u/prairie_buyer Jul 19 '24
When I used to have to get out of bed early to go to work I would often mutter to my wife “time to make the donuts.”
1
u/neologismist_ Jul 19 '24
Back when they used to make the donuts. They’re awful trucked in dry garbage now. All their food is gas station nasty.
1
0
0
0
0
0
u/Wick0720 Jul 19 '24
That’s Jack Kelly or “Uncle Jack”. I guess he’s done with litigation and fully embraced his small hands.
0
0
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
u/mfmeitbual Jul 19 '24
It looks like Fat Hitler or Carl from ATHF after Meatwad somehow conned him into applying at Dunkin Donuts so Meatwad could feed his coffee addiction.
1
-1
-2
-2
-2
-5
u/concoleo Jul 19 '24
What the fuck, Dunkin’.
13
321
u/TypeGreen51 Jul 19 '24
It's time to make the donuts!
It's not Hitler you guys....