Dunkin' taking doughnut bacon sandwich national

[Omaha Steve]

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Source: AP-Excite

By CANDICE CHOI

NEW YORK (AP) - Even as fast-food chains tout their healthy offerings, they're also coming up with fatty new treats to keep customers interested. Case in point: Dunkin' Donuts is adding a doughnut breakfast sandwich to its national menu this week.

The sandwich, which comes with fried eggs and bacon between a split glazed doughnut, will become a part of the permanent menu starting Friday, which the chain claims is "National Donut Day." Dunkin' Donuts had tested the sandwich in select stores in eastern Massachusetts in April, creating considerable buzz online.

Notably, Dunkin' Donuts says the "Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich" clocks in at 360 calories, which is less than the 390 calories for the turkey sausage sandwich it recently introduced for people looking to eat better.

Dunkin' Donuts, based in Canton, Mass., is a unit of Dunkin' Brands Group Inc., which also owns Baskin-Robbins.2

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Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130603/DA6MGL2O2.html

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This photo provided by Dunkin' Brands, Inc., shows the company's glazed donut breakfast sandwich. Even as fast-food chains tout their healthy offerings, they're also coming up with fatty new treats to keep customers interested. Case in point: Dunkin' Donuts is adding a doughnut breakfast sandwich to its national menu beginning June 2013. (AP Photo/Dunkin' Brands, Inc., James Scherer)

[Yavin4]

1. It's not the fat. It's the sugar and carbs.

The bacon and eggs are fine. It's the donut and hash browns that are the problem.

[Fuddnik]

4. Glad I'm on Atkins.

I wouldn't eat that fucking thing even if I wasn't.

[Psephos]

23. Precisely. n/t

[cprise]

25. A-men... Let's cue up some Paula Deen!!!

[bitchkitty]

26. It's everything. n/t

[Skittles]

27. no, it's how much you eat that is the problem

EVERYTHING in moderations

[HockeyMom]

2. Yuck

don't really like either alone. Together? Gross.

[Warpy]

3. Just looking at that thing makes it hang up on a tonsil

and gag me. I can think of sweet things that might do well in a donut sandwich and I can think of savory things that might go well with an unglazed, plain donut, but putting greasy eggs and bacon inside a glazed donut? No thanks.

[Fuddnik]

12. You should see some of the shit they sell at the Florida State Fair.

Giant double bacon cheeseburgers on a Krispy Kreem donut.

Deep fried butter.

Chocolate covered bacon.


Yeecchhh!

[tofuandbeer]

21. Deep fried butter? Wow! That's extreme. What's next: deep fried olive oil?

[dbackjon]

5. Mitt Romney thanks you for your support

[chollybocker]

6. The Cholesterfuck Sandwich.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

7. Could do without the egg.

Bacon and a glazed donut sounds pretty good though.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. Oh I am definitely getting me one of those! I occasionally get the egg, bacon on croissant and

that has many more calories than what's listed for this one...and gets little negative mention as a breakfast option. A simple bagel and cream cheese, for those that are open to facts, has loads of calories (because they are so dense). Of COURSE this new sandwich is not health food, but if you work manual labor outdoors, the calories from one of these wouldn't even last you till lunch...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/generic-whole-wheat-bagel-with-cream-cheese-28453258

[Habibi]

24. Yes, really!

This is definitely not something you'd want to eat often, but as an occasional treat, why not? Salty and sweet--yummy!

You *could* make something better at home, though--say, cream-cheese and honey/nut stuffed French toast. With bacon.

[reformist2]

9. Friday is free* donut day! Yayayayayayay!

*With purchase of coffee or some other beverage.

[msongs]

10. just another version of bacon/eggs with pancakes and syrup really nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. I saw something like that after a group of horses rode by.

Nah, it couldn't be.







Could it?

[Beacool]

13. I'm not a donut eater, so that sandwich looks disgusting to me.

Aside from the overload of sugar and fat.

[gvstn]

14. Paula Deen has had this for years including hamburger

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paulas-home-cooking/the-ladys-brunch-burger-recipe/index.html

Warning: Pics at this link probably show what one really looks like and may not be safe for an easily upset stomach. http://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/08/16/129232792/sandwich-monday-the-lady-s-brunch-burger

This quote shows the nutritional education of the general populace.

Eva: "This has every single meal in one sandwich. Bacon and eggs for breakfast, burger for lunch, donut for dinner."

Oh, and the McGriddle was a huge success for McDonald's. I understand why Dunkin Donuts would do this from a increase profits stand point.

[Paulie]

15. Should have use this as a reason to being back the Dunkin donut

I miss it so much.

[Initech]

16. Does it come with a defibilator?

[840high]

17. yuck-yuck

[onehandle]

18. Raise their taxes by 1000%. Obamacare should be punitive. nt

[obama2terms]

19. Ewww

That doesn't sound very tasty.

[struggle4progress]

20. "Healthy eating is for chicken-shizz wabbits afraid of heart attacks!"

[tofuandbeer]

22. I made the mistake of wasting my money on their bagged coffee.

I've never had coffee that bad tasting (outside of freeze dried). It still sits in my cupboard.

[Le Taz Hot]

32. Me too!

I kept hearing how WONDERFUL Dunkin' Donuts coffee was so I bought some while it was on sale. It's still sitting in my refrigerator for the I-need-a-cup-of-coffee-before-I-can-go-out-and-buy-REAL-coffee coffee. Gack! Still hooked on San Francisco Bay brand coffee. Best coffee I've ever tasted.

[Alamuti Lotus]

28. Heart Doctors applaud, plan luxury retirement *nt

[Ash_F]

29. What the hell is wrong with people? /nt

[pinboy3niner]

30. Time...

[Le Taz Hot]

31. That is gag inducing.

[jmowreader]

33. That looks like a very healthy sandwich.

Seriously. Since it appears to be inedible, one bite would be about all you'd want to chance.

Why hasn't anyone taken Lew Rothman's BBB sandwich national...Bacon, Bacon and more Bacon. And so easy to prepare: fry up a pound of bacon and stick it between two slices of bread.

[tavalon]

34. Wow, there is just so much wrong with that

[Turborama]

35. Locking

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