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North Carolinians deny being pandemic hoarders
Right now my pantry is stocked with more Clorox wipes than I could possibly use this year — or next. At least one of the containers has been there for…
Krispy Kreme
American global doughnut company and coffeehouse chain
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Market-Made Mock Meats
This week, JLF’s Joe Coletti published a research brief as part of our Thanksgiving 2019 series. Coletti’s piece focused on the influx of mock meats into the food market in…
Research Brief
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Meatless Meat: A Miracle of the Market
Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are the most notable entrants in the race to make a meat substitute that acts like meat but is made entirely from plants. They have…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Story of Krispy Kreme
In the early days of the Great Depression, an entrepreneur named Ishmael Armstrong purchased a doughnut shop from a French chef named Joseph LeBeau (or possibly LeBoeuf). Using the name…
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“Florida man arrested after cops mistook his Krispy Kreme doughnut glaze for meth.”
According to the Orlando Sentinel, he’s suing the city and the company that made the road-side drug testing kit: Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins pulled over Rushing in December while he was…
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Revenge of the Sweet Lard
This morning, I took the boss’ dog to the vet. I was so relieved she weighted only 43.5 pounds, as had she weighed 45 pounds, her owner would put her…
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A light-hearted look at fundraisers for education
The North Carolina General Fund Education Lottery requires about three dollars in sales to spit out one dollar “for education.” To me that seems like a rather expensive apparatus for…
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On ‘corporate citizenship’
Donut fans near downtown Raleigh can’t be happy that Krispy Kreme will close its oversized kiosk on the Fayetteville Street Mall just after the hawk-ey fans depart for the NHL…
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail
N.C. GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer accuses Gov. Bev Perdue of colluding with Board of Elections officials on campaign finance probe. Politic365.com floats the idea that racism is involved in a…
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G’boro council talks tax cut
The Greensboro City Council talks tax cut. But with an $11 million budget deficit, it’s going to be painful, at least for those who rely on the government dime. Interesting…
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Lessons from the Past: North Carolinians Creating Jobs in Difficult Economic Times
Even during difficult days of the Depression, innovative North Carolinians started several businesses and created new consumer products and jobs. Among them were Texas Pete and Krispy Kreme. During the…
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Free Krispy Kreme doughnut Friday
After all, you can’t fight for freedom on an empty stomach. I would avoid free ice cream offers, though.