...time to make the donuts...

                                                                         
                                                                               Boston Creams are the best...(I love that face!)

I took a stroll down memory lane when we took a drive to get some donuts:

I recall some 37 years ago

...(oh my heck!)... as a 20 yr-old college student, moving to 'the valley' and getting a job as graveyard shift donut maker and counter girl for

(drum roll please) ...Dunkin' Donuts...

My baker, Gertie, a wild-haired and scary guy...loved to listen to 'Pink Floyd' and enjoyed sharing stories of beer and marijuana parties (remember this was the 70's)...all of this was a little shocking to a girl fresh out of the colonies and I got alot of worldly exposure in a short time...

Between the hours of 12 and 7a.m. I would frost, fill and sprinkle the donuts which were to be sold the next day... I had plenty of time to do the donuts since customers were few and far between...(mostly cops and late night employees stopping for a cup of coffee and a donut)...

Gertie was always on his best behavior when the cops came in...not quite sure why....it made me feel a little safer and I developed respect and gratitude for police officers...
(something I didn't really have in Mexico)

For the first couple of weeks I was in heaven...all the donuts I could eat and staying up all night... (two bad habits I am still trying to break...) After a couple of months I had my fill of both and luckily got an opportunity to move on to bigger and 'greener pastures'...(cashier @Thrifty Drugstore)

A few things have changed, however, and even though Dunkin' Donuts no longer sells 'buttermilk sticks' (at least in Arizona) they have added T-shirts - caps - and gift certificates...Not to mention some new menu items...

All in all...Dunkin' Donuts still makes a great donut...

(especially when eaten with goat's milk!)

...guess I should have ordered more Boston Creams...

1 comments:

1.        Cathy  Apr 28, 2010 04:57 AM

HEY!!! My first job (fresh out of the colonies!) was at Winchell's Donuts in Tucson! I used to ride my bike to work at 4:00 a.m.! And... like you, I had to make the donuts too! I remember my boss being very frustrated with me because as we filled the box of donuts we had to calculate the cost in our head! MATH... something that I am NOT good at! I'm sure there we many mistakes made but hopefully it all evened out!! I had to look for another job quickly because I was putting on a couple of lbs a week!!! Not good!