Give me a break. Sounds more like a PR stunt for Emily's.

Thanks for the tip! COK does great work and I'm excited to see them in Baltimore.

BLECH!!!

(and COK? REALLY???)

Stupid hippies.

Okay, the first day I get my PC back after a month (don't ask) and I have deal with COK this early?

If you check out their web site you can buy their delightful "dog on a plate" t-shirt.

Vegan donuts? Is that something we really need?

I think the title of this story should be: "Wack job group undermines tax paying business"

This stunt is not fair at all to the small business owner who operates that Dunkin Donuts. Here someone is giving away a donut in front of a store that sells donuts.

I'm so glad that COK is promoting vegan donuts in Baltimore! Why not try vegan donuts? They are cholesterol-free, better for the animals, and better for the planet. I'm sure they taste just like regular donuts too!

Miranda -- They either taste like regular donuts or dried up round treats

I agree with RoCK. Plus puhleeeze of course they don't taste the same. You change the ingredients, especially for pastry, and you get very different things. These are the same people who will tell you that Tofurkey tastes just like turkey.

It's a ridiculous piece of economic terrorism using COK to screw with another business and then using COK to entice customers to another business it is in cahoots with. I too have had more than enough stupid hippie stunts lately.

I wish Dunkin' Donuts would do the same in front of the other place. Maybe they could start a group called Workers Against Negative Gatherings. Business owners unite! Fight COK with WANG!

(Seriously, how did you not see this coming?)

Fight COK with WANG!

Tee Hee

COK? Yikes. Someone should fire their acronymator. It might be more credible if their logo was a rooster instead of a puppy on a dinner plate.

I would be all for a group of meatatarians gathering outside of Emily's and giving away buffalo burgers while demanding that Emily's add meat to their menu. I know there are lots of places where I can get meat but I won't rest until every restaurant serves atleast one meat dish. And cheesecake. Do you know what it is like to look at a menu and have everything contain only fruits and vegetables? Would it kill Emily's to have just one meat dish for those who eat only meat? And Cheesecake.

I wonder if COK will be protesting outside of the Anthony Bourdain event?

RoCK against COK!

Well said EEL.

Brilliant, EEL. I'll be in front of Emily's on Sunday at brunch time with my eggs benedict.

Does one need a permit for these protests? I wonder if the Dunkin' Donuts proprietors are even allowed to give out free samples of their product in front of their own store.

We are not amused

They're not giving away lollipops?

Trixie, isn't that called Lilith Fair

I can't wait for the donut giveaway on Sunday! What a great alternative to the unhealthy, cruel donuts from Dunkin' Donuts!

1) Cruel Donuts is an awesome band name
2) Cruel donuts? Really? I can't get the patchouli stink off my screen. I need a new can of Hippie-B-Gone
3) If only they were gluten-free
4) So deep fried vegan donuts are healthy?
5) ! infraction

I'm no lawyer, but this is clearly a case of torus interference.

Bazinga!

Owl Meat GlazedDonut,

Uncle.

Why a feed-in outside a Dunkin Donuts when there is a McDonald's across the street? Isn't Mickey D's more offensive from a vegan standpoint? I guess COK hasn't come up with the Vegan McMuffin.

It seems pretty obvious that there is profit motive behind the holier than thou folderol. Whether COK is a tool or paid tool in unknown. I think the tie-in to another business is illegal and unethical.

It seems quite odd that Dunkin' Donuts is the ONLY corporation that they a, uh, bone to pick with.

A list of COK events yields the following gems:
– COK Benefit Day at Sticky Fingers Bakery
– Join Team COK for Poplar Spring's "Run for the Animals"
– COK at the Visions in Feminism Conference

Personally, I am more worried about the diabolical danish than the cruel doughnuts...

Oh great, now you're picking on people from Denmark? Nobody's safe around here...

This Vegan stuff can give you a headache. My son and his girlfriend are vegans (she active with PETA), they are coming for a visit next month. My wife and I are trying to come up with a menu, and it's not easy. Now I find out they don't eat honey. WTF So far we have green salad, ambrosia, and something with brown rice, tofu and veggies. We have 5 more meals to plan...ugh!

Honey exploits the bees' labor. I'm not kidding. Some are also against guide dogs for the blind for the same reason.

It's about a 7-mile trip from the downtown DD to Emily's. Are the COK people going to be driving there, using fossil fuels (made from, um, dead animals)?

Dog sled

Hey Jack, cooking for vegans doesn't have to be an ordeal. I'm sure your son and his girlfriend don't want you to feel inconvenienced. They probably have lots of suggestions and would be happy to help or even cook for you. You can find lots of easy recipes on vegweb.com or http://www.lagusta.com/rants/quickmeals.html just for starters. By the way, you probably want to skip the marshmallows in that ambrosia--they're made with gelatin, so they're not vegan.

Honey exploits the bees' labor....I have to admit, that does make me giggle every time I hear it.

Honey exploits the bees' labor....I have to admit, that does make me giggle every time I hear it.

I worked somewhere once where animal metaphors were forbidden. By saying "black sheep of the family" or "dark horse" you made animals slaves to human intellect which is demeaning. I swear.

That sounds like a fish story.

Four legs good, two legs bad!

Exactly. They were a self-loathing bunch and particularly disliked children and people with children.

What kind of hippies are these anyway? Protest for a whole hour and then go for nosh and a movie.
We Shall Overcome...until brunch is served.

Economic Terrorism? Talk about hyperbole! So if you give away free food anywhere near a food-selling business, it's terrorism?

Besides, if the vegan donuts taste as cr@ppy as people here think, there's nothing to worry about in terms of competition.

P.S. If these are terrorists, I'd rather be standing next to one of them than a suicide bomber.

I'm guessing vegan means no human hair ingredients in these doughnuts.

Talk about hyperbole!

Actually, it's about all we do around here sometimes. But that is one beautiful turn of phrase.

Love your name btw, Phydeaux.

Point to Dahlink. The early bird gets the worm :-)

If you disallow away our hyperbole, the only thing we have left is jumping to conclusions and taking things out of context.

That said there is no disputing that the decision to give away donuts in front of the Dunkin Donuts is intentional and will have a negative commercial impact to that store.

The point of the activists is to make DD sell vegan donuts. This isn't some coincidence whereby the hippies turned around and said: "hey, did anyone notice that Dunkin Donuts behind us?"

Businesses would be wise to include vegan options. I've been a vegan for 17 years and have avoided eating at many restaurants because they don't offer anything for me to eat. There is an under-served segment of society that would gladly patronize these businesses if they would just offer a few items that we could eat.

For those of you who like to make fun of vegan food, you'd be surprised at how good it can be. I know when I go to a potluck meal, my dishes are among the first to get eaten because my friends know they're tasty and healthier.

People who would like to try vegan baked goods that belie the vegan stereotype should try the amazing Brunie's Bakery. Tamara, the owner is a baking genius.

what, no vegan foie gras?

I'm going to smear foie gras all over myself and sell it in front of Emily's for 1$ a lick.

I'm going to smear foie gras all over myself and sell it in front of Emily's for 1$ a lick.

Sorry Camille. It was not my intent to offend anyone. I love the danish, especially the fruity ones with icing on top ; )

RayRay, How about 3 for $2?

No worries, Trixie. I know you would never slander scandinavians, 'specially sweet ones spread with strawberries and sprinkled with sugar.

Ah, Camille, it seems you know me too well. I do prefer sweet over sour!

Captcha encouraging my summer activities "Florida viking". I may need PCB Rob as a sidekick!

Why would restaurants want to cater to vegans? Don't they all smell kind of bad?

Avalon, I have a feeling the other potluck guests are just being polite.

folks are really pulling out the big zingers here! vegans are "hippies" - they "smell kind of bad" - "patchouli stink" - how original! no vegan has ever heard those insults before!

I know that after I unwrap my dish at a potluck, maybe hotdog casserole or beanie weenies, I think, "I can't wait until the morally indignant vegan gets here with her healthier food.

I totally just got some new flip-flops. Could we talk about hemp now.

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And folks do that so well here. :-)

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Well, that's the free market for you, right? Like when a Burger King opens up across the street from a McDonalds. Some people might want a free vegan donut over a DD donut. But in any case, it's just for an hour or a morning.

Also, if your doctor says to lay off the donuts and fried junk food, and you don't go to the donut shop or buy the deep-fried twinkie at the state fair, your doctor and you are having a negative impact on the Dunkin Donuts. Is there a problem here?

Hey genius, people don't go to a donut shoppe for one donut. People will take your craptastic wholly holy ring of ire, taste it, spit it out and go get the four coffees and 2 dozen donuts they came for. What a bunch of babies.

If people wanted vegan donuts they would make them. It's called the free market. What you propose is market fascism by the lunatic fringe. As Chairman Mao said, I crazy journey going nowhere starts with a single hippie. Get off my lawn, you dirty hippies.

Giving away free donuts in front of a donut store isn't the free market. It is dumping.

Back in the 80's, some predatory pricing like this would bring out Helen Bentley with her sledge hammer. Yesterday's Toyota is today's vegan donut...and now we know what happened to Toyota.

Could Helen Bentley destroy a vegan donut with a sledgehammer?

So. Did anyone try the vegan donuts?

Yeah, I tried a vegan donut. Better than you might think. No eggs or butter, but somehow soft and pliant. I still prefer Dunkin Donuts honey-dipped though.

Yeah, I tried a vegan donut. Better than you might think

Kind of like a dancing bear. It isn't that the bear dances well, it's that the bear dances at all.

Or them monkeys what type Shakespeare. I don't believe it to be true no matter how many monkeys you get. There just aint enough monkeys.

No, all those monkeys didn't produce Shakespeare, they produced the Internet.

Laurent!

Your a right clever fellow, Hal Laurent. But you do know they say them monkeys can type up Shakespeare with enough typewriters. I say bollocks. I never heard of a monkey writing any thing worth looking at in all these years.

Karl, you're missing my point. Judging by all the crap on the internet, that's what the monkeys have been up to.

Well if you say so mate but I aint never seen no monkeys typing nor computing. Plus and I dont see how them monkeys are typing for infiniteness when theres close to naught typewriters about. And theres no computers in Planet of the Apes so that aint gonna work out, right?

"Chief, come here quickly.

"Monkey 546963134561 is typing 'To be, or not to be. That is the dklduern.'

"Never mind."

Hey, RiE--the day just got better!