More Doughnuts For Silver Spring!
By Silver Springer • Oct 23rd, 2007 • Category: Arts, Food and Entertainment
Dunkin Doughnuts is all good but this is the one I’ve been waiting for. There’s something new for the taste buds of Silver Spring yet familiar since you could say, it’s from a coastal cousin.
Fractured Prune, an Ocean City, Maryland based doughnut franchise that’s rapidly expanding, has targeted Silver Spring for one of its next locations. Not be confused with the one in the Cloverly neighborhood of Silver Spring, the Fractured Prune website suggests that this one will be somewhere closer to the core.
The Ocean City Company is known for their wide variety of doughnuts and customer creations.
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You just HAD to post pictures with this story, didn’t you!
At any rate, I call dibs on the banana-nut donut.
The Fractured Prune is awesome! It would be great for them to open a location in DTSS… all to often I’m craving a real, fresh donut and by the time I’d make it all the way up to the Cloverly branch they’d be closed.
They’re moving pretty fast with the repairs of the Walsh Motor Co Bldg. Bring on the Doughnuts!
Can they open a plastic surgey clinic next door? We’ll all need lipo from all the donuts.
wait a minute… you just said “Dunkin Donuts is all good but…” … what Dunkin Donuts??? Did I miss something? Will I soon not have to drive to Wheaton for dunkin donuts?
Yes.. I know, I know.. national chain…. but the better half is from rhode island, so for her it’s a local chain still.
[quote comment="2880"]wait a minute… you just said “Dunkin Donuts is all good but…” … what Dunkin Donuts??? Did I miss something? Will I soon not have to drive to Wheaton for dunkin donuts?
Yes.. I know, I know.. national chain…. but the better half is from rhode island, so for her it’s a local chain still.[/quote]
There were unconfirmed rumors over at the Penguin about a Dunkin doughnuts going at the burned out shop on colesville but it may very well be that Fractured Prune is the doughnut shop that every one is talking about.
Silver Springer wrote:
Please check The Penguin article again. While it does cite an unconfirmed (but reliable) report of a donut shop, it does NOT specifically mention Dunkin Donuts.
Thanks!
I’m way more excited about the Steve and Barry’s coming to City Place. Gunna get me a pair of them there Ben Wallace/Marbury basketball trainers.
eww. Lemonade doughnut? I’ve always preferred a simple glazed one. I always get a couple from Dunkin whenever I’m in Wheaton.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have an entire building full of donut shops? Not just fractured prune, but Dunkin, Krispy & Fractured Prune…
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I guess the building could then be called “Dukin’ Donuts” !
On a side note, I frankly don’t get all this mythology around donuts, its just a freakin’ piece of fried dough that is bad for your health, though it serves as a guilty pleasure at times. Fractured Prune = Krispy Kreme = Dunkin’ Donuts. I saw the rise and fall of the “Krispy Kreme” hype coming from a mile away, especially all those gullible investors who thought that investing in donuts was going to secure their retirement.
They are good…but not that good. Piping hot donuts tend to feel a little sickenly heavy with unhealthines after the first two trips.
I’d hit those.
There’s “mythology” around donuts because flour cooked in fat and dusted or glazed with sugar is really, really tasty. This has been found to be true in cultures around the world. Are you some kind of xenophobe? Huh? Are you?
The people were friendly and the service was fine. I had heard all the hype and could not wait to taste these donuts. I have driven to NY City’s – The Doughnut Plant - just to try their donuts because they would not mail them because they worried the quality upon arrival would not be good enough. I have also driven to Wilmington NC, from DC, to try Britt’s Donut Shop on the beach in NC – both worth the drive. I only drove 11 miles to the Fractured Prune and they were the worst I have ever had. I want a refund on the donuts and my fuel. What are the ‘glazes’ made with corn syrup or something?? They are way too sticky and messy. Who makes glazes with nasty corn syrup? A glaze is supposed to dry to touch. The lemon glaze tasted like that lemon scented house cleaner smells. The donuts were a gooey mess - not easy to eat on the way to class. Even the Plain Jane was just a grease squishy mess. The maple did not taste like maple – the banana at least was not overpowering -thank goodness. The black forest raspberry glaze was very fake tasting like the lemon and orange. I would not recommend this place to anyone. It has been 2 hours since I tried them and I’ve washed my hands twice and the artificial raspberry glaze smell is still on my fingers and I only had one bite of each. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!