For International Disney Visitors

[s.ollie]

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

 

[ScorpionX]

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

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

 

[Alexx]

My family usually get the bus straight to the hotel, sort our clothes out and then go for something to eat or go to the store next to the hotel and get snacks like (doughnuts, chips, coke, water etc)

 

[ScorpionX]

My family usually get the bus straight to the hotel, sort our clothes out and then go for something to eat or go to the store next to the hotel and get snacks like (doughnuts, chips, coke, water etc)

Again, someone spelled "doughnuts" wrong. It is spelled D-O-N-U-T-S.

 

[Alexx]

Again, someone spelled "doughnuts" wrong. It is spelled D-O-N-U-T-S.

What are you the spelling police? Over here we spell it D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T-S. It's like the word colour/color. Stop being so picky.

 

[Rob562]

What are you the spelling police? Over here we spell it D-O-U-G-H-N-U-T-S. It's like the word colour/color. Stop being so picky.

I've seen it spelled both ways here in the US, but when referring to the stores the OP mentioned, the company name is spelled "Dunkin Donuts".

BTW, I've found that the donuts at Dunkin stores around the country can vary quite a bit from those here in New England (where Dunkin originated). I prefer the ones I get up here. Their coffee also varies thanks to the varying water supplies around the country.

-Rob

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

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

 

[Lord Pheonix]

Their coffee also varies thanks to the varying water supplies around the country.

im in jersey and im convinced its not cause of the water, it due to the indians who make it. i ask for a large light and sweet and i get a large regular.

Having received the rubber clove treatment from Homeland Security

dont tell me they give you a fun strip search........YAAAAY!

and the correct spelling IS doughnuts, we're spoiled thanks to dunkin, now we think it really is spelled donuts, but its actually a trademark (or deliberate) mis-spelling.

 

[Goofyboy]

We spell it - DOUGHNUT - too!!!

 

[Ghall]

My kids just have to head for the swimming pool after we check-in. After the 9 hours flight they love to have a swim and with the 5 hour time difference it's about 1am in the morning to us. I just have to head to Walmart the next day and stock up on all those things you can't buy here in Ireland!

 

[nighttimewisher]

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

 

[loveofamouse]

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.

 

[GoofyRacer11]

You make doughnuts out of dough not dos.

 

[Dwarful]

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...

 

[Buried20KLeague]

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

I can't say I blame them.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

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.

Yeah... that sounds about right.

Take note, kermitdefrog.

 

[Alexx]

yeah... That sounds about right.

Take note, kermitdefrog.

:roflol:

 

[s.ollie]

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...

Well the on my last visit in DEC 08 we stayed off-site and hires mears transport to take us back to the airport and when the mini-van/bus turned up the lady driver had to call for a 2ND car to help with our luggage.... :lookaroun :lookaroun.... 4 adults, 10 cases and carry on.

We like to shop.

 

[s.ollie]

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.

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

 

[Dwarful]

Well the on my last visit in DEC 08 we stayed off-site and hires mears transport to take us back to the airport and when the mini-van/bus turned up the lady driver had to call for a 2ND car to help with our luggage.... :lookaroun :lookaroun.... 4 adults, 10 cases and carry on.

We like to shop.

Ok sounds about right then.