1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Time to grease the driveshaft. Got the clunk. How many pumps should a 2 pump chump pump, if a 2 pump chump could pump more?

 

10-15 pumps IIRC or until you see the grease coming out where the shaft slides over the other.

Truthfully, it might be way less but that’s what I did originally. Hasn’t hurt anything.

 

That’s what I do. I grease till it starts to spludge out the old nasty stuff

 

Gotta love Dunkin Donuts; they make you wait for 15+ minutes for a walk in order only to tell you it was made and they called it out by receipt number.

What number? Damn girl didn't even offer me a receipt. They need to get their act together.

 

Obviously with any 'typical' zerks you follow the standard pump til grease comes oozes clear, then wipe. But for the slip yoke, it's special. Read FGV's text here: https://www.tundras.com/threads/what-would-you-say-if-i-told-you.71827/#post-1848468

 

I've never seen a Dunkin donuts in real life. Only the commercials.

Down here there's a ton of mom n pop donut shops all ran by Asians. The only chain is Shipley's. Some of the mom n pop shops have more than one location though. Dear Donut Man is my favorite.
We used to have a few Krispy Kremes back in the day

 

They had one in TX I went to in the 90s when I lived there. Worst DD in my life. Nobody drinks coffee or at least goes to anything other than Starbucks, so the coffee sat there burnt from the morning AND they make you put in your own sugar and cream. Hell, I got better sludge at work than that place. Probably didn’t last long before they closed.

I’ve yet to try a Tim Horton’s in Canada though. I will at some point in my life.

 

They probably didn't last down here because I doubt they sell kolaches. Gotta sell kolaches and tacos and biscuits and a few other pastries along side the donuts and chocolate milk

 

Had to look that up. Never tried one. At first glance it looks like pigs in a blanket.

 

Yes.

 

One of the most overhyped things in the NE! Can’t comment on the coffee since I don’t drink it but the donuts were absolutely terrible! I’d enjoy a week old Krispy over a DD, hands down.

 

We're about to go from not having one anywhere nearby to it being the closest restaurant to our house. Only had it once. Have to give it a try, they haven't even broke ground yet though.

 

Krispy Kreme didn’t last more than a year or two here since they didn’t have enough variety to their menu. They do make a great donut though, having enough sugar to kill a diabetic 10 times over.

 

Dammit. Now I want a donut.

 

https://youtu.be/Q82-5XizdiQ

 

Tim's is overrated. DD has good coffee when it's fresh, the donuts are just meh, except the sour cream. I think an original Krispy Kreme blows it out of the water. People chase after enough that Keurig pods for DD coffee were one of the first on the scene. Then again, people swear by McD's coffee also, I never understood. That was back in the day, when they used to add a little salt to every pot, supposedly, to cut the bitter. And whole fat creamer.

I just wish someone out there made solid bear claws, crullers, and fritters fresh for carry-out. You could open a chain selling nothing but those three items, throw some babka, kolaches, and chocolate croissants in the mix and I'd be in at least 3 days per week.

 

That’s the whole key about coffee, it’s gotta be fresh and DD has actually gotten much worse since 2014. Now only a select few make it well enough that it’s decent. Biggest issue is everyone has gravitated towards ice coffee so their regular hot brew isn’t that good anymore. I now only goto 3 within a 10 mile radius even though there’s 20 of them, one being less than 300 ft away from where I live (which is the worst now). More often than not, I’m buying gourmet coffee for $17-$24/lb and making it at home. DD is only my goto when I don’t have time.

 

Lack of good nearby coffee left me at a point where I was pulling my own shots to make a solid Cortado, since I don't do drip. Sette 270 grinder, Crossland CC1, Aeroccino, Intelligentsia beans. Found that combined with the amount of tea I was drinking (southern half-sweet tea, Lipton black, not the raised-pinky-finger stuff), coffee beans weren't the only thing grinding, my teeth were also, while sleeping. I can't give up the tea it's ingrained in my DNA. I miss the morning ritual of pulling shots, but the coffee had to go, and has become a travel/when-camping/when-out-of-town thing.

It's really weird. All through highschool and a few years after, we would sit at Denny's and drink their bottomless pot of coffee. I'd drink half a dozen cups and it had barely any effect. Today if I drank that, I'd be zooted out of my mind.

 

Lipton??

Luzianne tea is superior and the preferred southern iced tea. Much smoother

 

Really enjoy his music. Listened to that song (and album) just last night with my kids on the way home. New album drops here in a few days, a new track's already been released on Spurtify that's purty good, "Corralling the Blues."

 

SWAYT TAY

 

I guess I'm a little more rough than smooth

Lipton is just what the family has drank my whole life, as far back as I can remember. Nothing else tastes right to me. But I'll go grab a box of family bags of Luzianne and try again, it's probably been 15+ years since last time.

 

My mother was raised on Sanka instant decaffeinated; I won’t go near that shit with a 10 ft pole or take any coffee recommendation from her with more than a grain of salt.

If there was an apocalypse and the only coffee to drink was instant, I still wouldn’t drink it.

 

bit of a coffee aficionado myself, but I’ll drink what’s available. Folgers instant isn’t bad in a pinch. All we had some long night shifts.

 

The only thing instant coffee is good for is making dessert stuff. Coffee whipped cream, coffee cake, etc.

 

Or buy yourself a bottle of 43 liqueur and learn to make carajillos. A really simple and great after-dinner/dessert cocktail. Fancy folks prefer actual espresso but some Nescafe or Sanka'll do just fine.

 

Y'all fancy. Here I am with my Bunn pourover at home and some coffee from Aldi.

 

At our 12 week check up. Feeling guuuud