i was just making conversation...

so?

Some people are to stupid for coffee (much to hot) and donuts (sharp edges) and should be kept out of Top Pot for their own protection…

You mean this in the same way as in it's bad to ask a bartender what you should drink?

snob alert?

OMG, what a stuid bitch to even go there and ask what kind of donut! Can you believe that?!

If you think that's bad, can I just tell you that today I was riding the Metro Rte 60 and this totally stupid bitch gets on and is all, "Does this bus go to Pioneer Square?"

WTF? Pioneer Square?! As if, bitch, this bus is sooo totally going to Capitol Hill and you're obviously not so like, take off already!

OMG, I wonder if it could be the same chick who asked about the donuts. If so, that's like, totally not cool.

Imagine the internal conflict that ensued when I, a person with a healthy dislike for Starbucks and its soul sucking proliferation, discovered that said company was now peddling Top Pot doughnuts in my very own city (Phoenix).
I have already, on several occasions, been unable to resist the glazed cake goodness that calls to me from behind the glass. My will power was certainly affected by the fact that Krispy Kreme just klosed all of their Arizona stores. I hope the Top Pot folks have the good sense not to follow in the Krispy footsteps and start selling their confections in every convenience store, grocery and car wash. I'd like to see Top Pot remain something unique and special to Seattle, or at least to the northwest. But that's just me, a sentimental pile of rubbish if there ever was one.

Oh… right… I forgot about the myriad of complex rules associated with pairing coffee and donuts. Its hard to remember that the unwashed masses may not know the finer points of etiquette, such that one only drinks a Cappuccino with a cream or jam filled donut, and a Doppio is only served with a chocolate frosted, and that one must never ever serve a plain donut with a Macchiato (which only correctly complements a bear claw) or a Latte (which is always served with either a maple bar or a coconut glazed cruller), but only with an Americano. And don’t get me started on what can be eaten with a Kona Coffee but not a Kopi Luwak Coffee and visa versa.

It’s all more complicated than the wine list at Rover’s. I’m not sure why people even bother…

Umm... So what?

I actually seem to recall a review of top pot that actually recommending the barista what donut was particularly good today.

Is the next post going to be 'OMGWTFBBQ!!! The person at the table next to me at actually *ASKED* the waiter what dish they'd recommend!!!!'?

Maybe you could explain what you found so commentworthy about this event so that we, the reading populace, might be able to empathise with your situation. Is it the stilted, overly polite english? If so...err... again.. so? Would it be better if it was 'Yo, bitch, which 'nut you be sayin' be good for my beans and shit?'?

Good question. Cruller, or an old-fashioned.

Jen,

Ignore the ranting of the rabble. I totally get your point.

The fact that: A of all) this person felt compelled to even ask this question speaks volumes about the Wretched State of Contemporary Society; and B of all) that this phalanx of fretting philistines doesn't understand the significance of this incident, pretty much closes the case.

I love food and find that waiters often know the perfect paring with libations. At Capitol Club I always ask what wine will go best with the eggplant sandwhich, and at St. Germaine I wouldn't dream or ordering without asking the waiter about the wine selection.

It's wonderful to live in a town where people care enough about food to ask informed waiters about the coffee and pastry selections. In Paris no one would bat an eyelash. Seattle is experiencing growing pains as the ingnorant rub shoulders with those who really know gastronomy.

Top Pot doesn't hand frost any donuts anymore now that they have a factory in Portland that churns them out for Starbucks.

Le Sigh.

You were at Top Pot?

Sell out.

The fact that the person didn't ask what kind of coffee goes with a donut is a very healthy sign, in my opinion.

I still love Top Pot - I just metaphorically stick my fingers in my ears and sing la-la-la when the horrid Starfucks name is mentioned in conjunction. Even if they don't hand frost the donuts anymore :(

You know, I was at Top Pot today too, and I think it's criminal that you chose to comment on this, rather than on the counter girl's adorable Laverne & Shirley outfit, made by her mom and monogrammed with a big S, all of it topped off by her perfect blonde sock hopper pony tail. She was the very vision of the 50s counter girl.

If you were at the Summit Top Pot, that Big "S" stands for Sonya - and she probably made the outfit herself.

And she could totally punch you in the throat, if the need for that should ever arise.

If, on the other hand, you were at the 5th Ave TP, then I have no idea what the Big "S" might stand for, nor who made it, nor anything about the throat-punchability of any of the counter staff.

Eating food is selling out.

The cool thing to do these days is to not eat food.

Since I've emmigrated to SF, I guess I have been losing my Seattle sense. What is the point of this post?
Please just explain it to me because I am bloody thick, and I am in India now with fits of Montezuma's revenge and I need things explained to me.

Sounds straight out of Rachel Ray $40-a-day.

That had to be a bad pick up line.

I knew Bethany Clement, and she is a snob. Ignore this post; she's just picking on people AGAIN.

(P.S. Beth, I still cry from what you did to me)

No love for the Wedgwood Top Pot? I'd love to see some Laverne & Shirley tomfoolery up here!

What kind of doughnut would you recommend? A round one.

John: "'Yo, bitch, which 'nut you be sayin' be good for my beans and shit?'?"

I am so amused. I want to see this done.

Top Pot may mass produce for Starbucks, but last year when I ordered 150 pink feather boas for my “wedding cake”,they made them all at the downtown location with an extra special batch of hot pink icing(to match my dress). The first thing I do when I come home to Seattle is mack on some Top Pots. MMMM

The same one you'd get if you were buying a cupcake at Cupcake Royale.

The point of anything is to make money. The Stranger exists to make money. It's great Top Pot works for Starbucks. I hope they make a pile of cash doing it. The Stranger works for Big Tobacco. Who cares? If the donuts are good I'll eat them no matter what corporation makes them. At least Starbucks doesn't sell Kripsy Kreme.

All I want to know is what the counterperson responded. I'm assuming, "a fried one" but I could be wrong about that.