{"id":1636,"date":"2003-10-25T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2003-10-25T14:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/25\/goodbye-crueller-world\/"},"modified":"2003-10-25T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2003-10-25T14:25:27","slug":"goodbye-crueller-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/25\/goodbye-crueller-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Crueller World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Its retirement
\n never even merited a notice on the drive-through menu, much less a
\n memorial service with Homer Simpson-esque eulogies. But over the summer,
\n when customers were distracted by Coffee Coolattas and maple-frosted
\n scones and such, Dunkin’ Donuts took a step that left some loyalists
\n with an empty, funereal feeling, twisting them in knots like the snack
\n whose passing they now mourn. <\/p>\n

Without fanfare, the Randolph-based company phased out one of its original
\n breakfast-pastry items, the doughy, dunkable girder upon which many a
\n franchise — and ample waistline — has been built. <\/p>\n

The cruller is no more. <\/p>\n

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