The snacks are called bagel twists, and they feature the following flavors:
- Cheddar Cheese
- Cinnamon Raisin
- Cheeseburger Stuffed Breadsticks
- Pepperoni and Cheese Stuffed Breadsticks
- Warm Apple Pie
I’ll admit that some of them don’t sound so hot—cheeseburgers at Dunkin Donuts?—but the cheddar cheese one has me thinking about traveling over to the store today just to try it out. And why not, when they’re less than a buck fifty?
Now I kid all of the officers out there regarding Dunkin Donuts! When I was in high school, I worked at a pretty well known fast food joint, and we were open 24 hours, enabling us to have the presence of a security guard on many nights, particularly weekends. Two little trickster boys—I say little, but they were both bigger than me; maybe they were little in mentality, or in thoughts of anything beyond ten minutes into the future—used to play such bad tricks on our security guards that we went through them pretty quickly.
You’d think it would be the boys, not the guards, who would have been forced to leave after all of the shenanigans they pulled, but my husband and I think they may have had a little something something going on with the boss. It’s pretty common among fast food joints, really; you definitely don’t want to hear about many of the unhygienic things that I’ve heard about myself.
So these two would put pepper in the officer’s coffee, or make farting noises, or pretty much play any other number of juvenile pranks when they were around. One particularly awful thing they did—if we didn’t have many inside customers—was call out, upon the moment the officer entered the building, “When I say Dunkin, you say Donuts!” And the other guys would echo, “Dunkin… Donuts!” Then they would say, “When I say jelly, you say roll!” The other boys in the restaurant would echo that, too, and they all found it hilarious.
I’ll admit that some of us girls laughed about it the first time; it was just so unexpected, and we were sixteen and stupid anyway; but we quickly grew tired of the tricks, particularly when they wanted to do it all night. The older women who worked there since they were teens would actually get annoyed, as they all seemed to have a crush on the various officers, who would always try to impress them, and it would weird the rest of us out.
Honestly, most of the cops I’ve seen hanging around do drink coffee—but I’ve seen more of them with, say, hotdogs, than Dunkin Donuts. And anyway, who cares if they eat them? With these new savory breads, I’d go for the place, too.