Slog - Comments on Overheard http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1 At Top Pot, to the counterperson: "This is my first time at Top Pot. What kind of doughnut would you recommend to go with a cup of coffee?"... Copyright 2007 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:05:47 -0800 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:45:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by ronry i was just making conversation...

]]> ronry http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466675 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466675 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:15:01 -0800 Comment by h-W so?

]]> h-W http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466680 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466680 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:19:07 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me 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_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466681 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466681 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:20:18 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale You mean this in the same way as in it's bad to ask a bartender what you should drink?

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466696 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:38:10 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 snob alert?

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466703 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:43:03 -0800 Comment by I Totally Hate Stupid People! 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.

]]> I Totally Hate Stupid People! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466712 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466712 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:54:47 -0800 Comment by nightlifejitters 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.

]]> nightlifejitters http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466723 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:14:38 -0800 Comment by you_gotta_be_kidding_me 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…

]]> you_gotta_be_kidding_me http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466724 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466724 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:14:44 -0800 Comment by John 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?'?

]]> John http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466725 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466725 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:16:04 -0800 Comment by chris Good question. Cruller, or an old-fashioned.

]]> chris http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466735 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466735 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:30:39 -0800 Comment by MMMMMM DONUT! 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.

]]> MMMMMM DONUT! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466736 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466736 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:35:19 -0800 Comment by Foodie 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.

]]> Foodie http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466739 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466739 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:47:29 -0800 Comment by Soupytwist 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.

]]> Soupytwist http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466747 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:01:57 -0800 Comment by Hard Core You were at Top Pot?

Sell out.

]]> Hard Core http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466770 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466770 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:59:47 -0800 Comment by genevieve 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 :(

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466771 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466771 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:03:25 -0800 Comment by Ivan Cockrum 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.

]]> Ivan Cockrum http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466775 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:28:06 -0800 Comment by COMTE 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.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466785 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:49:50 -0800 Comment by Will Eating food is selling out.

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

]]> Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466786 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:00:54 -0800 Comment by Andrew 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.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466799 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466799 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:20:12 -0800 Comment by josh Sounds straight out of Rachel Ray $40-a-day.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466811 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466811 Chow Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:48:22 -0800 Comment by Ma'Chell Duma LaVassar That had to be a bad pick up line.

]]> Ma'Chell Duma LaVassar http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466853 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466853 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:09:20 -0800 Comment by SEATTLESNOB 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)

]]> SEATTLESNOB http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466858 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:41:31 -0800 Comment by wedgwoodwench No love for the Wedgwood Top Pot? I'd love to see some Laverne & Shirley tomfoolery up here!

]]> wedgwoodwench http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466860 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466860 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:44:40 -0800 Comment by J.R. What kind of doughnut would you recommend? A round one.

]]> J.R. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466876 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:43:00 -0800 Comment by Nay 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.


]]> Nay http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466881 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466881 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:48:15 -0800 Comment by Ma'Chell Duma LaVassar 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

]]> Ma'Chell Duma LaVassar http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466919 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466919 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:32:36 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle The same one you'd get if you were buying a cupcake at Cupcake Royale.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466984 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c466984 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:50:01 -0800 Comment by Makin' Money 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.

]]> Makin' Money http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c467026 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c467026 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:49:48 -0800 Comment by Geni All I want to know is what the counterperson responded. I'm assuming, "a fried one" but I could be wrong about that.

]]> Geni http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c467168 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/overheard_1#c467168 Chow Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:45:40 -0800