What makes a donut a "House of Donut" donut? 


#5, how about, how to make a doll into a wineglass?

It tastes like tacos.

It strikes me as weird that Duluth doesn't have more ice cream and donut shops, given how people around here like to eat wax. Where I'm from in the Southwest there are tons of donut and ice cream shops... but there was like nothing here until Cold Stone ice cream-wise, weird?

1. The Cub sour cream buttermilk glazed donuts are nuts
2. Go to Central Sales, it's like a bizarre hardware flea market
3. No Comment
4. Probably... 
5. Still waking up, will check back.

The video store on 47th Ave. E, in Lakeside, is also an ice cream shop.  The ice cream isn't a premium brand, but they offer a good variety of flavors and cones, and it's a trip back in time to stand at the counter and order an ice cream!

1. Coco's in Washburn
2. Antique Depot in Superior RIP (someone should open a nice bar/rest there!
5.I learned that Tom Petty is pretty suave, always has been, and I still like that tune, 'Went down Swingin'...

Mt. Royal.

I think Dairy Queen has some historic connection to Minnesota...did it start here?  Anyway, it is a Minnesota tradition.  Does anyone else remember when the only DQ stands around here were literally "stands" with a window; like the one on Central Entrance, and only open in the summer?  Oh that first curly top of the season was such a joy!!

Sucks there's not more of a penchant for people selling ice cream to have quality as one of the necessary ingredients for their program.  For example, afore mentioned albeit video store sells, I believe Kemps, or something of equal shit quality.  Kemps moto says, 'Real Ice Cream.'  Well plutonium is real too.  There are these newish countertop ice cream makers by Cuisinart for 50 bucks that make it affordable to have B&J and beyond product, because you control the ingredients. Someone could even just buy five of those units and open a store. Because if you're going to open a whatever store, why not pull out the stops and do something other people aren't?  You probably have to go to Brooklyn to get real ice cream, same for donuts pretty much, that's why I gave Coco's number one, because obviously those folks refuse to dumb it down like so many others and go for unadulterated quality for about the same price as Johnson.  We were at the Angry Trout last weekend, or as some call it on a busy day- the Angry Angry, and they had a pretty mean vanilla I suspect was homemade because they want to be known as purveyors of quality, and realize how it would go down when folks started saying 'they almost went all the way, but the nilla was by Kemps?'  It's not hard, but does require one to step beyond American Lazy, which depending on the various shades of white, red and blue in any given area, can be quite difficult, escaping the conveyor belt of convenience over quality. That said, if Johnson and Kemps are your bag, and if Sammy's doesn't taste like shitty used cardboard, then godspeed.

I think the quality problem is, there are not enough people with a penchant for quality and also the sense to run a business profitable enough to eek out a living with.

I'm not having any issues now - I figured you slyly fixed it once I asked about it. ;)

I've been following the PDD feed using Google Reader for about a year. It's been perfectly fine, then a few weeks ago was empty and didn't have new comments. Started back up again on it's own a few days later, then the same thing last week.

I'm seeing everything fine now, so maybe the RSS feed will behave now that it knows Paul is watching.

Isn't there a little flea-market style thing, in a bunch of trailers, in Superior still? Across the Bong, but before the railroad tracks? There's usually signs for it in the summer right before you get on that Belknap overpass over the tracks. I think I've seen a sign already this year.

There used to be a lovely roadside flea market just north of Beaver Bay on Highway 61, I believe, that I always enjoyed digging through when I was heading up the shore in the summer time. I haven't been up there in a couple of summers but I'm willing to bet it's still there.

I will speak to the Donut issue only:

I never had a House of Donut's donut, BUT I am married to a donut aficionado and he believes the best donuts in town (or, the area, I guess) are at the Super One on Belknap near UWS in Superior (not the one by the bridge). Specifically, he loves the sour cream donuts. I am inclined to agree with him. 

We have compared them to the sour cream donuts from Mount Royal and they are, ahem, "superior."