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| - We all had a doughnut craving so we headed to Fractured Prune, which is extremely close to my house. I had heard rave reviews about the place. At work, I heard people talking about how amazing it was to create your own doughnuts. I also went on yelp, and again encountered highly positive feedback.
When I went to the store, it was totally empty. It was a ghost town. There were only 2 employees- one behind the counter and one sitting and eating doughnuts with a date (?) Anyways, the employee behind the counter explained the idea behind the place and we got to ordering. He took quite a while to make the doughnuts, and watching him make them was sort of painful to be honest. Didn't seem like he quite knew what he was doing.
We ordered a dozen doughnuts- one cherry, one orange, two lemonades, three salt caramels, and the rest plain glazed. The doughnuts were fresh and warm, and also pretty to look at. But that's about it.
When I finally bit into a doughnut, I realized a GLARING problem. The texture of the doughnut was all wrong. It was the texture of those packaged powdered doughnuts you get at Walmart. There's a reason I don't buy those. The only flavors I found edible were sea salt caramel and honey glazed. The fruit glazes were strong and artificial tasting, which is inedible in my case. Why eat a doughnut that doesn't even taste good?
To be honest, I don't understand the hype about this place. The concept is good, but the doughnuts are terrible. I feel like the only reason people like this place is the fact that you can put bacon bits on your doughnuts. And I don't even eat bacon. So there's really nothing here for me.
The worst part about this experience is that I STILL have a doughnut craving that has not been satisfied at the slightest. I guess I'll be driving over to Bosa doughnuts later today for some cheap, delicious, fresh doughnuts.
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