[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I've said this for years. Generally, Calgary has a hatred, while Edmonton has more indifference. It's sad.

What Edmonton has is little brother syndrome. You're always trying to live up to us. It is why, when major American newspapers describe Edmonton as being "180 miles north of Calgary", people upt there freak out.

The single greatest example of Edmonton's inferiority complex came when Krispy Kreme opened up in Calgary:

Edmonton beats Calgary - again: We're better at lining up for doughnuts: [Final Edition]
Howell, David. Edmonton Journal [Edmonton, Alta] 30 Mar 2004: A1 FRONT.

EDMONTON - When Alberta's first Krispy Kreme doughnut shop opens in Calgary at 6 a.m. this morning, two Edmonton brothers will be the first customers in the door.

Jared and Brett Taylor have been at the front of the line since Sunday afternoon.

Actually, as of Monday afternoon, they were at the back, too.

"Right now the line consists of me and Brett," Jared, 25, a student at the Edmonton campus of the University of Lethbridge, said in a telephone interview.

Brett, 23, a student at Grant MacEwan College, said he found the absence of other people somewhat puzzling.

"It does surprise me about Calgarians," he said. "I thought there'd be a lot more of them. We were worried that we weren't going to be in the front of the line."

The brothers work in the United States each summer as sales representatives for a pest control company. It was in the U.S. that they got their first gooey tastes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

The business started as a storefront bakery in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1937. A Canadian company will open 40 Krispy Kreme "Hot Doughnut Factory" stores in Canada over the next several years, including one in Edmonton this summer.

Jared's had his first, an original glazed, in Phoenix in 1999. He remembers it as if it were yesterday.

"As soon as I tasted it I was like, 'Wow, these are amazing.' And I've stayed loyal to them since."

Brett tried an original glazed two years later in Salt Lake City. Since then, just the sight of the chain's signature Hot Doughnuts Now neon sign makes his heart race, he said.

"There's no doughnut that compares, there's no doughnut that tastes like it. It melts in your mouth. It's just the best doughnut that you'll ever eat."

The Taylors have eaten Krispy Kremes in Atlanta, Phoenix and elsewhere. They will be in Las Vegas when Edmonton's first Krispy Kreme store opens this summer near Ikea in South Edmonton Common.

Missing the Edmonton opening is one of the reasons they headed to Calgary's Sunridge Mall.

Jared got dropped off there at noon Sunday. Brett drove down from Edmonton and arrived two hours later.

They slept outside Sunday night. A man gave them money so they can buy him doughnuts when the store opens. He also dropped by Monday with burgers and fries for lunch.

"People are taking care of us -- random people we don't know," Jared said. Employees at the store have let them in to use the restroom. They've been given doughnuts as well.

Fried dough is only a part of the Krispy Kreme experience.

Doughnuts are made behind glass in full view of customers. They "ride up and down a doughnut escalator" on a conveyor belt that takes them into a fryer and then underneath "a waterfall of glaze," the company says.

"It's amazing," Jared said. "They take them off the conveyor belt and you can eat them right off the line. There's nowhere else that you can have that type of a retail experience.

"And their employees, too -- it's the culture of Krispy Kreme, everyone's happy and excited. The employees are all upbeat."

Between the brothers, they'll buy six dozen original glazed doughnuts and two dozen assorted. Then they'll drive back to Edmonton to share the treats -- or most of them -- with friends.

"Once we get in the car we'll probably eat half a dozen," Jared said. "It's not hard."

dhowell@thejournal.canwest.com

Yes, that is the Edmonton Journal (Not the Sun, the Journal) bragging on page A1 about how two Edmontonians cut school to get the hell out of Edmonton and drive to Calgary just to be first in line for doughnuts. This is how desperate Edmonton typically is to "put one over" Calgary.

And my god is it ever hilarious.