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I'm trying to maneuver—
...Food Review!
Well hello, ladies and gentlemen,
and everyone watching.
This is Running On Empty Food Review.
I'm still trying to...
...maneuver myself into position. Usually I'm a little...
...seated a little bit more toward the right.
But this time I'm... I'm here!
And you may ask yourself "Why?"
Now I don't always do Krispy Kreme reviews.
You know, you check the last video that I did on the channel,
and it wasn't a Krispy Kreme review.
And you check the video before that,
and that wasn't a Krispy Kreme either.
And even the one before that wasn't.
So I am not...
...100% Krispy Kreme...
...review based.
Now that fact has been established,
you're going to obviously inquire "Well,
why are you out? Why are you reviewing Krispy Kreme?"
Well, it's not like this video has a title or anything,
but it's because Krispy Kreme has a new release,
it's limited time and I was actually surprised myself
because a lot of people requested this.
Probably the most amount of comments and emails and posts and all of the above
to request for an item to be reviewed recently.
They said "Try the Blueberry Glazed Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme."
Well to myself "Yeah why not? What the heck?"
I got so many requests for it, gonna give it a shot.
So I decorated everything to be very well themed
for the blueberry-ness that is to ensue. We got the blue...
...tapestry.
Kind of left over from Cinco de Mayo.
We have, of course, our blue water chalice,
and going with the greeny suit.
And we have an all-star cast...
...that came out of retirement here.
We got one of The Wholesome Ducks Of Good Luck...
...who is actually a connoisseur on blueberries and wants to be a guest reviewer.
And then...
and then this wanted to kind of make an appearance too so...
You know, why not? This is the blueberry...
...goblin.
There he is.
But he doesn't really know anything about blueberries so I'm just gonna...
Stay put there.
All right. So what are these? These are just glazed doughnuts...
with... but they have a blueberry glaze on them.
So I would imagine them to be blue...
Well, maybe like a purplish blue,
sweet and sugary,
and have that nice, you know, just doughiness
that the Krispy Kreme doughnuts have to offer.
Limited time as I said, only available until May 27th.
So let's unravel these and...
let's take a look.
Now...
...there they are.
And they're not as blue as I kind of hoped them to be at least.
You know, they definitely are the blueberry ones.
Can smell a little bit of blueberry from them, but...
You take a look. I mean this more or less is just...
You know translucent.
Light purple color.
Rather than a...
...blue, that's alright. [It's not alright]
It's alright. [IT'S NOT ALRIGHT]
We can't be too biased just based on that.
But there I am with the box of the...
the blueberry doughnuts.
I was hoping for them to be a little bit more...
...I guess on the bluer side.
Originally, I thought that these were kind of...
...not just gonna have a glaze to them,
but they were gonna have a full on, you know,
they were going to actually have a blueberry batter that they're composed of but...
hey, you know beggars can't be choosers.
This is what we got.
And very simple very simple concept.
I think we already know what this is ten times over by now.
So I'm gonna try it out and I'll let you all know what it tastes like.
These are the new...
...Blueberry Glazed Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme, going in.
I think it should be mentioned,
since this is very relevant to the review
and subject matter they're in.
The blue duck over there...
...has the ability to absorb...
...particles and...
...flavors and all of that
Just through
kind of not quite telepathically,
but he's able to kind of pull them from a distance and consume them,
so he doesn't necessarily need to leap on and actually physically eat the donuts.
but rather he has...
...powers that are kind of able to transcend...
... the boundaries of...
...physics really as we know.
And he's able to eat them that way.
It was you who were wondering
I will take one more bite.
And now for those of you really wondering what the heck I'm doing,
I'm looking for a napkin which I seem to have forgotten
despite spending so much time setting all this up.
I forgot that most basic of things, but I see a napkin right over there
So, excuse me for a second...
Let me grab one.
Okay.
Well...
What does it taste like?
Well, I'm gonna be honest with you.
I was a little bit disappointed.
When I... I mean...
You have to understand this when it comes down to this doughnut, all right?
You have to understand this when it comes down to these doughnuts.
I reviewed these again based upon the amount of requests that I was given.
All the people who were saying, you know,
"Review these from Krispy Kreme.
Give them a try. You know, this is gonna be incredible..."
And so on and so forth.
And I just garnered this image before obtaining them.
That these are going to be among the likes of the infamous green doughnuts.
That these were going to not only be blueberry flavored,
that they were also going to be composed of...
...a batter containing blueberry,
and that they were going to be blue in color.
So...
just by the impression that they gave me
I felt like I was a little misled.
You know, that's a no fault but my own.
But I was just expecting them to be just a little more, you know,
a little more flavorful and just...
...out there in every regard.
They're not the most colorful doughnuts. They're almost...
Not even truly distinguishable from their standard glazed doughnuts.
I was a little disappointing.
The aesthetic the visual appearance of the food is very important,
and I think they could have done a little better of a job here.
Now secondly when it comes down to the doughnut itself.
These doughnuts as you—I'm sure know if you've had Krispy Kreme before—
these are their standard glazed doughnuts.
They just have a different glaze on them.
So the consistency,
the texture of the doughnut itself does not vary.
It's gonna give you a very soft,
Chewy and even at times doughy...
...doughnut.
That often times will absorb a lot of the flavor.
That's why one that just goes with the classic glaze.
It's a sugar base.
You just tasting that sweetness that mixes in the oil
and, you know, the dough from the donut.
It works.
When they try to add other flavors,
it either needs to be really potent so that you really get
you know, a real mouthful and it really makes that flavor apparent,
or it may not fully be there.
And unfortunately with these doughnuts...
Because it's not just pure blueberry syrup. It's like a...
blueberry flavored, you know, sugary glaze that they put on these doughnuts.
The blueberry flavor... while it is there,
it just isn't as potent and as strong as I would have liked for it to be.
I thought it would have been cool to just...
you know, bite this doughnut and it would be, you know, sweet and sugary,
but it would have this real explosion of flavor that the blueberry...
You know,
Glaze I would presume would unlock.
But instead I bit in and it was a little sweet,
and there was a little bit of that blueberry flavor there.
And then as I started chewing it kind of got lost in the doughnut.
That's a little disappointing.
I think that they could just be more flavorful.
I was just expecting a little bit more
in terms of the blueberry flavor than what I really got.
I'm just a little disappointed by that.
But otherwise, they're just very basic.
As I said this box has six of them.
I procured for about five dollars. Fair price.
But again for all the hype,
I think that they could be a bit more flavorful
and just the visual presentation too.
Just as I said for all that it was being marketed as a little bit disappointing.
still tasty still flavorful to a degree,
but not to that level that I was kind of hoping for.
Anything you would like to add?
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Mm-hmm. Say it to the camera.
[squeak]
Uh-huh.
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[mutter]
I disagree with you on that, but...
thank you for respectfully voicing your opinion,
you know, everyone is entitled to that so thank you there.
On a final note,
well first and foremost, let me just give a...
a numerical scale. I'm sorry you threw me off.
Out of 10 what am I going to be rating these Blueberry Glazed Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme?
Out of 10 these are going to be getting a...
6.2 out of 10. That's a 6.2 out of 10.
Again, simply because I think that they could have been to a higher standard
that they just weren't and that's just a little disappointing.
All right with that out of the way. This review concluded.
On a final note, coming up tomorrow is
The newest VORW Show. soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
It's a little bit of a podcast radio show I do each week.
I recommend you check it out.
It's just an hour of some good music, some interesting talk.
And again, you just got to remember if I didn't get the word out there
no one would know it exists.
Tune in if you're interested. soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
Thank you for watching this review
for Krispy Kreme's Blueberry Glazed Doughnuts with our guest stars—
The Blueberry Goblin,
and of course, the ever so ebullient...
...Wholesome Duck Of Good Luck.
Thank you for watching. Take care. I'm your host, The Report Of The Week.