Starbucks UK starts selling Duffins -- two years after a small chain introduced them

A small London bakery chain has been selling Duffins -- a combo muffin/donut -- since 2011. "Happy customers have been blogging about it, instagramming it, and tweeting about it ever since," reports Channel 4 news.

But now Starbucks UK has come along selling Duffins -- and its factory supplier has trademarked the name. The great #duffingate battle has begun!

* Fight erupts as Starbucks trademarks "Duffin" for its donut-muffin hybrid
* How Starbuck provoked a Duffin backlash in the UK
* Starbucks in a jam over Duffingate

Comments

[a former partner]

Well, they should have trademarked it
first. #duh