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Oh media, must you keep torturing us with photos of the famous bacon cheeseburger, provocatively ensconced between two Krispy Kreme donuts instead of a bun? Truly the apotheosis of American ingenuity, this delicacy has previously been savored by Google employees in the company's New York cafeteria, who lorded it over everyone with food porn photos back in 2007. It's generally believed that the invention first appeared on the world stage in 2005, at a suburban bar in Decatur, Georgia, where its creator dubbed it The Luther Burger after diabetic American R&B star Luther Vandross. Now it's back, and so close we can taste it—except, not literally!

Happy National Doughnut Day! What this means for you is, of course, free donuts—and Consumerist points out that free donuts are non-caloric and guilt free. Ah, sweet little lies. It's too bad the Doughnut Plant doesn't seem to be participating in today's events, but there are two ways to get your free fix. Head to the one surviving Krispy Kreme at 2 Penn Plaza and you will get a free donut with no purchase necessary, barring any Kentucky Fried riots. Since business isn't doing so well, however, you may want to get a little something extra while you're there. Meanwhile, over at one of the many Dunkin' Donuts in the city (where they announced a new Toffee donut today) you can get a free donut with the purchase of any beverage.

Two weeks ago, our friends over at Bostonist posted a very scary map plotting more than 50 Dunkin Donuts locations within a five-mile radius of their city’s Downtown Crossing. The actual number of New York Dunkin Donuts locations, parameters widened to include Port Authority based kiosks and airport locations, is likely to be more than a baker’s dozen for any given five mile radius. So yeah, sure, it seems America runs on Dunkin and all that, spokespersonality Rachael Ray is somewhere yummo-ing™ with a Vanilla Bean Coolatta®, and the donut war is over. Resistance is futile. Your donuts will herewith be stale and taste like cake mix.

Some love it to the point of being freakishly cultish. Others don't see what the big deal is. But everyone can agree on one thing: you can do plenty of productive things with the time you spend waiting on line to get a burger at Shake Shack.

The city may be fighting a war on trans-fats but Google's NYC cafeteria might as well be Switzerland from the looks of some photographs of what's being served up. Today, a Bacon Krispy Kreme Burger (whose sign also says "wrong on so many levels") was on the menu. Not only is the Krispy Kreme bun grilled, but the burger had cheese, too.

Despite the fact that New York spends nearly $13,000 per public school student per year, the highest in the nation along with Jersey, those same students are consistently ranking in the bottom five for all fifty states. "In New York, it seems, the money isn't making its way to the teachers. In the last decade, teachers in the state saw average salary decrease 5 percent when adjusted for inflation, according to the National Education Association."

Peeking through the windows in a space on 8th Street just East of University Place in Greenwich Village that once housed a Krispy Kreme, we saw a sleek, minimalist, modern looking space with long, narrow tables designed for communal eating. We looked a little more closely and saw a few more things that clued us in -- a menu filled with pan-Asian dishes, from Thai to Laotian, to Malaysian, and more, and a sign that read "Cafetasia." They've got a $7 prix fixe lunch special and the entrees hover around $10-$15 from the menu we could see through the glass, which divided items by size -- from XS to XL. Let's hope it's decent -- we're always looking for new fast eats and delivery options!

Mayor Bloomberg decided on one package of each kind, after joking that neither would be good for his waistline (he did pass on the Krispy Kreme doughnuts, though). He handed over $2 for the cookies, three each in clear plastic packages.And then, when he went to go vote, he reassured a woman that he wasn't trying to cut her, saying, "I'd be massacred on the front page of the newspapers." Oh, Mayor Bloomberg, if you really cared about us New Yorkers, you would have cut a lady so we New Yorkers could have read and laughed about it.

This made Gothamist wonder about other smells in the city. There's the bus exhaust and the smell of bagels outside of H&H, as well as the more-than-earthy explosion of scents (good and bad) in Chinatown and the fried fumes of the San Gennaro Festival. Other bad smells in the city - the Gowanus, Subway sandwich shops, Times Square subway on a hot sultry day, bar bathrooms at around 1AM. And good smells - outside Jacques Torres' place in DUMBO (but a good kind of chocolatey smell), pizzerias, Peter Luger's, Krispy Kreme, freshly cut grass in the park, the Greenmarket, and a fresh newspaper.