Starbucks jumps on the Cronut train with the Duffin; people get really mad
Starbucks jumps on the Cronut train with the Duffin; people get really mad
Starbucks U.K. solidified the chain’s rep as the dorky dad of the food world by coming way too late to the Cronut party with the Duffin, a sugar-dusted muffin with a jelly-filled centre. Now a popular London bakery is claiming that the product is a blatant ripoff of its own muffin-doughnut hybrid, which it sells under the same name. Like any super-important breaking news, the scandal is being tracked by minute-to-minute updates in the press, as well as its own Twitter hashtag: #Duffingate.
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Starbucks U.K. solidified the chain’s rep as the dorky dad of the food world by coming way too late to the Cronut party with the Duffin, a sugar-dusted muffin with a jelly-filled centre. Now a popular London bakery is claiming that the product is a blatant ripoff of its own muffin-doughnut hybrid, which it sells under the same name. Like any super-important breaking news, the scandal is being tracked by minute-to-minute updates in the press, as well as its own Twitter hashtag: #Duffingate.){kind=link}
Tim Horton’s Fruit Explosion muffin? Its literally the exact same thing and we’ve had those for years and years.
false. Tim’s FE muffin is not sugar-dusted. Stop the lies!
Not covered, cloaked in chocolate – totally different process.
Oh, no, will there be a Duffin Burger? Ick!
Tim Horton’s has had jelly-filled muffin disasters like this since 1981
I stand corrected. I forgot about the dusting of sugar!®™
CLOAKED.