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[Pumbas Nakasak]

Not really seen any value in shopping on holiday. Never have anything I want at what could be classed as a saving.

 

[DrummerAlly]

The first thing i do is find the nearest Walgreen's and go crazy buying all the products you cant get here in Ireland and stocking up on everything that is a lot cheaper. the phrase kid in candy store comes to mind :lol: :lol:

sometimes i wonder if the Americans realise hoe lucky they are

Out of curiosity... what is it that you can't get in Ireland thats so much cheaper here that would make you leave Disney World for Walgreens!? :wave:

 

[kashmir]

You spelled "doughnuts" wrong. It is spelled D-O-N-U-T-S.

Either way - old fashioned spelling still applies.

Don't correct if you haven't researched...

 

[loveofamouse]

Thanks for coming to my aid , will definitely be hunting out some Krispy Kremes this year.

oh, you must! Im in Jacksonville. Here, all of the Dunkin's are going out of business but the KKs are going strong! They've been around forever and you can watch them make the doughnuts! Kids love it! They do a different style doughnut. DD tend to do "cake" doughnuts. KKs are yeast. The icing is just to die for! They melt on your tongue! lol. You could almost eat a dozen by yourself without even realizing it cause they are so good. LMAO!:ROFLOL:And they do awesome specialty doughnuts for different holidays. They are overseas, too!

And now I'm seriously thinking of driving 23miles to get some

 

[kashmir]

Having received the rubber clove treatment from Homeland Security I tend to head straight to the resort to freshen up, then head out for a meal. As we tend to stay at the Hard Rock for a few days we dont hit the shops till we switch to Disney. Though this tear I will be visiting Walgreens as thanks to the t'interweb I know the Walgreens near Universal carries Cabo Wabo at less than 50% of what I have to pay here

CABO WABO? Care to enlighten me?

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

CABO WABO? Care to enlighten me?

£48 a bottle here from the one company that imports it, I believe Walgreens are selling it for around $25.

 

[ScorpionX]

You make doughnuts out of dough not dos.

But, you DO eat DOnuts.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

CABO WABO? Care to enlighten me?

Tequila. Sammy Hagar's brand.








Not that I've ever had any. :lookaroun

 

[s.ollie]

Out of curiosity... what is it that you can't get in Ireland thats so much cheaper here that would make you leave Disney World for Walgreens!? :wave:

Pretty much everything is cheaper, i like to stock up on make-up, Sally Hansen products etc, oh and i get these sweets called Mike Ike's (i think) and hershey chocolate.

i also make sure i get products from the pharmacy (tylenol etc) as there 3 times the price back home.

i hope no-one from customs read this though or I'm sure ill be in for thorough bag searches when i land next time

 

[loveofamouse]

But, you DO eat DOnuts.

Wow....It's one thing to be mistaken. It's another to insist on being wrong and rude after being shown the answer.

 

[s.ollie]

Good to know... I'm seriously considering studying abroad in Dublin before I graduate. Guess I'll have to stock up before I leave! :ROFLOL:

(You're correct, they are indeed Mike and Ike's - they're my sisters favorite ).

OH NO.... DONT DO IT :ROFLOL:

as much as i adore Dublin and its where my soul is, America/Florida (Disney World specifically) is where my heart is, i don't know why anyone would want to leave the states to live here. Besides coming here for a holiday when you know you can go home.

On another note EVERYTHING is so so so so much more expensive here. It costs alot to live in Dublin (as pretty as she is)

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

Can I just say we used to call them duffnuts :shrug: :animwink:

 

[Tiggerfanatic]

Good to know... I'm seriously considering studying abroad in Dublin before I graduate. Guess I'll have to stock up before I leave! :ROFLOL:

(You're correct, they are indeed Mike and Ike's - they're my sisters favorite ).

My DD is curently attending Queens University in Belfast (almost done!) and I've spent a small fortune shipping Reese's Peanutbutter Cups and chocolate-covered pretzels across the ocean. Incidently, I was over there in April and spent a day in Dublin - very beautiful city, but you're right, things are more expensive. We did a drugstore run before I left to stock her up on enough toiletries to get her thru the semester and I thought I was going to have to take out a 2nd mortgage!

 

[Figment82]

If you are looking for good doughnuts, don't go to the chain places - take the extra trip and go to Donut King in Minneola. You'll never go back to Dunkin' or Krispy Kremes again, trust me.

 

[Dwarful]

Not really seen any value in shopping on holiday. Never have anything I want at what could be classed as a saving.

Well, our friends spent quite a bit of time traveling in the midwest and bought lots general items ..clothing, shoes, gifts and one whole suitcase full of 'treats'.. Double Stuffed Oreo's, cereals, and candies things like that.

 

[Disneybub]

we always head straight to walmart/walgreens and stock up on everything! im also like a child in a candy store.

Then i have to head to Mall at Millenia... Its my home away from home.... Home being WDW though!

 

[Fantasmic]

You spelled "doughnuts" wrong. It is spelled D-O-N-U-T-S.

OMG... seriously.

I'm sure you spell the words colour, speciality, pyjamas, moustache, aluminium, aeroplane, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour, labour wrong but we won't complain shall we....

 

[Ghall]

I have to ask, do you buy so much you need extra luggage? We had friends come visit us for three weeks from Jersey (Channel Islands - not the state of New) and they bought so much stuff we gave them our old luggage to haul it home. We still send big packages for the holidays/birthdays etc. of their favorites. BTW we are a doughnut area- we don't even have a Dunkin Donuts anymore...

We always travel to Disneyworld with 4 bags for five of us. We pack 3 empty bags in our luggage and travel back with 7 large bags. We shop till we drop in Orlando. To us the shops are just another theme park!!!

 

[sweetpee_1993]

Whats the first thing you do when you get to the states..... after the airport and check in obviously :ROFLOL::ROFLOL:

The first thing i do is find the nearest Walgreen's and go crazy buying all the products you cant get here in Ireland and stocking up on everything that is a lot cheaper. the phrase kid in candy store comes to mind :lol: :lol:

Then its on to Dun-kin Doughnuts.... to Gorge

I do this every year within an hour of arriving

My Disney thing is i always have to visit MK first, i refuse to go anywhere else till ive seen ''My Castle''

sometimes i wonder if the Americans realise hoe lucky they are

First off, I guess I never gave thought to whether or not y'all have the same stuff in stores over in Ireland. That's interesting. I could kiss you for that last statement. Kids just don't learn in school to not take for granted the fact that they are American like they used to when I was growing up.

Switch the radio to Magic and listed to Delilah...

Oh no. Seriously??? There are so many better radio programs to listen to. I always get the feeling she's insincere by how the sappy level reaches total overkill levels. We generally get a few yucks over some of the winners that call in. LOL!

The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates an 1808 short story[5] describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." Washington Irving's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term. Irving described "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks."[6] These "nuts" of fried dough might now be called doughnut holes. Doughnut is the more traditional spelling, and still dominates outside the US. At present, doughnut and the shortened form donut are both pervasive in American English. The first known printed use of donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by George W. Peck, published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, "Pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut."[7] The donut spelling also showed up in a Los Angeles Times article dated August 10, 1929 in which Bailey Millard jokingly complains about the decline of spelling, and that he "can't swallow the 'wel-dun donut' nor the ever so 'gud bred'. The interchangeability of the two spellings can be found in a series of "National Donut Week" articles in The New York Times that covered the 1939 World's Fair. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the donut spelling. Dunkin' Donuts, which was founded in 1948 under the name Open Kettle (Quincy, Massachusetts), is the oldest surviving company to use the donut variation, but the defunct Mayflower Donut Corporation is the first company to use that spelling, prior to World War II.

D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T was the original spelling, even in the use. D-O-N-U-T was a joking misspelling aimed at lower, uneducated people. DunkinDonuts decided to use that variation. But DOUGHNUT is the original and still more commonly used spelling WORLDWIDE, including the U.S.

It is doughnut, L.A.

You ought to try Krispy Kremes. Those DOUGHNUTS are worth killing for especially if they're serving HOT.

Um...yeah!!! You totally just said what I was thinking! KK are da bomb! Hot-n-fresh are the best. The traditional glazed will make your eyes roll back in your head...ooohhh...but the chocolate covered cream filled are my nemesis. Those babies make my toes curl they're so heavenly. In fact, I found my sugar threshold when I was 16 when I sat down & ate a half dozen. I stood up & promptly passed out. :lol:

But, you DO eat DOnuts.

I eat DOUGHnuts as in DOUGH. I DO not believe I'd enjoy DOnuts as in dog DO (doo). :lol:

 

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