The high cost of doughnuts.

The cost of doughnuts in New Zealand is insane. To purchase a dozen doughnuts from the Dunkin' Donuts across the street from where I am staying in Auckland will set you back $20NZD or approximately $14.47CAD ($1.21CAD per doughnut). As a Canadian who regularily frequents the local Timmies for the occasional doughnut or muffin or whatever else it seems completely insane to have to pay $1.21CAD per doughnut when purchasing 12 doughnuts considering that one doughnut in Canada at a Tim Hortons is only about eighty cents. It gets better still though because this $14.47CAD for a dozen doughnuts business only applies to "holed" doughnuts (ie no fritters, no jelly filled, no cream filled).

I walked past the Dunkin' Donuts today and saw that they were having a special promotion. You could get a dozen "holed" doughnuts for only $15NZD or $10.85CAD. While this is approaching a more "reasonable" cost ($0.90CAD per doughnut) that's still pretty high considering you have to buy a twelve pack of doughnuts to get this price.

To put the ridiculousness of the cost of doughnuts here in to better perspective a 15 pack of bottled Tui (popular New Zealand beer) is $15.99NZD or approximately $11.57CAD ($0.77CAD per bottle). This makes the whole doughnut situation even more odd sounding than it already is.

Anyways that's enough complaining about doughnut prices for now. I'm sure I'll cave and buy some at some point anyways. I love me some doughnuts.

I'm going to try and get some pictures of my room later as a number of people have been asking to see where I am living currently. Hopefully my room clears out and I can get some decent photos.

I'll close out with another group dinner shot from my first week here.