Do you dunk?

I'm sitting here in my office, with a fresh cup of coffee and some mini-donuts I impulse-bought on my to work.

I'd just dunked my third donut when I thought:

"Wait - why am I doing this? I actually want to eat these donuts as-is, so why am I making them soggy and all 'fally-aparty' first?"

Which made me think... is 'dunking' (donuts, biscuits/cookies, bagels, etc) a left-over from my childhood? I remember when it was way fun to combine foodstuffs, much to my parents anoyance!

So now I'm an adult, and although I've gotten used to reguarly wondering why I do things(!), dunking really seems to be a reflex reaction for me - when hot beverage is combined with a sweet or savory snack.

So, who else here DUNKS, and why?

You have doughnuts in the UK?

Seriously now, that is a good question. Why do we dunk?

Why do we crush saltines and drop in soup?
Why do we sop up olive oil and balsamic with our baguette?
They are messy but delicious habits.

Krispy Kreme have just opened their first UK outlet in Harrods of all places...

mmm doughnuts... now I'm hungry...

Oh, and I don't dunk. I don't drink any substance where dunking would be appropriate (tea? coffee? *bleugh*)

Erm, donuts can be found all over the world. I've been eating donuts since I was a kid, but I dont dunk'em.
Actually these days I have been finding that I dont really like sweet foods as much as i used to.

Ahhhhhh ..krispy kreme...oh u got me hungry now..gotta go hunt for the "Hot Now" sign..If u are a Krispy Kreme junkie u know about that "Hot Now" sign LOL

I know what you mean Eggy - in my teens and twenties, I would eat all sorts of chocolate bars and sweet fizzy drinks, particuarly when I'm working on the computer (8+ hours a day minimum). But now I'm in my thirties, I much prefer savory snacks.

Except for today lol! (darn impulse buying! I have 6 donuts left, don't fancy eating any more of them, and no-one else in the office want's 'em...)

Cailyn - I've never heard of Krispy Kreme. Next time I'm in London I'll check them out (rarely go there... it's sad that alot of brits NOT living in London view it as a huge, dirty, smokey, smelly place with some groovy museums)

Erm, I know that.

Me!! Me!! I'll have one!

errm calming down now



lol! guilty as charged Only visit once a year if that, and I'm always glad to get away again. Just waaaaay too many people for my liking.

Oh, and from what I've heard, if you think of a doughnut covered in extra sugar and saturated fat, you're somewhere near a Krispy Kreme. I could be wrong, but I have no real desire to find out!

OMG! I just found out they have donuts in China too!!!

(sorry Pituca hehehe )

Actually, I feel a bit bad now - I threw the remaining donuts onto the carpark for the birds. Felt good about that... free food for the birdies... until a stranger walking past told me off for doing it, saying that they were bad for the birds.

The birds didnt seem to think so - the donuts were eaten in just a few minutes! Maybe I should have given them some coffee to dunk them in? lol

I did some research for ya Eddie.


History of the Doughnut
Many historians died to get this information on the web. Use this knowledge with great care.

n early colonial times, Dutch settlers arrived on US soil seeking freedom from the strictly enforced Writs of Pastry. These laws were created after a freak accident in which a cow kicked over a giant fryer causing much of Strudeldorf to be drenched in hot oil and fried to a golden brown. The new arrivals, careful not to mention the Strudeldorf incident back in Holland, were allowed to resume the making of their one true passion: fried cakes.



In the days when fried cakes ruled the earth, life was harsh. The cakes were difficult to fry all the way through which often left a gooey doughy center. The doughy unfried cake center often carried deadly diseases such as the bubonic plague and anthrax. Thousands of people and twelve bakers (the baker's dozen) died from eating unfried cakes. Still, people ate and ate not knowing if their next fried cake would be the last.




It was then a young lad by the name of Hanson Gregory stepped onto the scene. The year was 1847. Seventy years had passed since the United Stated fought Britain for independence.
The American Civil War was still several years away. Without any local wars to fight, Americans had little to do. Hanson's mother was a dedicated cake maker living on the cutting edge of pastry technology. Day in and day out she fried cakes with relentless passion. Sometimes though, even her fried cakes were doughy in the center. To conceal this, she began placing walnuts and hazelnuts in the center of the fried cakes, but this left little Hanson feeling very sad because the only thing he hated more than a doughy center were walnuts and hazelnuts on doughy centers.



One night while Hanson was sleeping, an angel appeared to him. The angel was holding a giant plate of fried cakes still dripping with hot oil. "Hanson," said the angel, "You must end the suffering of your people. Reveal the true nature of these fried cakes. Also, try one of the glazed.. they're quite tasty." The angel left, but the plate of fried cakes remained. Upon closer inspection, Hanson was shocked to discover that the fried cakes were hole-y. He ran into the streets shouting about his experience with the angel and giving these glorious pastries to the townspeople. Everyone agreed they were the best fried cakes ever. The people sang and danced for many days then had Hanson burned at the stake for being a witch.

A. Dunkin Donuts is far better than Krispy Kreme.

B. Birds LOVE donuts. I went to a state park here in Arizona. There was a beautiful cardinal (the bird not the priest), who would come and sing to us till we gave it a piece of donut.

C. Pituca, have you ever thought of publishing your works?

D. I actually got to visit the ruins of Strudeldorf on a visit to Holland. You can still see the shapes of the people who were deep fried in the accident.

lol! That sounds a perfectly reasonable explanation to me Pictua... and that kinda worries me

Unfortunately Dev someone stole my beautifully illuminated manuscript many years ago, I just discovered it this morning while researching the noble doughnut for Eddie. You can see the original here

http://www.elliskaiser.com/doughnuts/history.html[

Did you get some pictures in Struedeldorf? I would love to see them.

I beg to differ here. Dunkin Doughnuts go to bed at night, and dream of being Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

This is gonna sound weird, but I think the best doughnuts I ever tasted came from, of all places, a Sears store! There used to be a Sears in downtown DC on Wisconsin Avenue. They made them fresh, and you could actually watch the raw dough ride a conveyor belt to the fryer, and past the icing.

That Sears closed in the 80's, and now the building is being converted into a Best Buy. I haven't had a Sears doughnut since the 70's, but I have to admit that they made a good impression on one 2nd grader way back then.

Ok, back on topic. Never dunked doughnuts, but drowned many graham crackers.

In answer to the original question:

Donut dunking, only rarely. I drink coffee black black black, and little bits of sweet floating in it just ain't kosher. I will dunk a plain donut.

Sandwiches, all the time. Au jus is my friend.

I eat Dodger Dogs, and I don't dunk them.

What the heck is a Dodger Dog, and is there real dog in it?

I usually don't eat donuts. When I do, I don't dunk.

My coffee: Dab of milk, enough sugar to send a couple of second graders into sugar overload, and strong as heck.

Itaketwosugarsinmycoffee,butitkindamakesmetalkreallyreallyfastbecauseIdrinksomuchcoffeeduringtheday!

Heheh. I try to keep my coffee intake down to a dull roar, as I don't want to have a 3 week headache when giving it up for Lent, like what happened to a friend of mine. (oy!)

I dont dunk...in fact..i really dont like ANY of my foods touching each other....when you dunk...and you get maybe a lil crumb in there...how do you know its not like a bug, or a human finger or something.....

it depends on the doughnut for me, if its plain or glazed i'll dunk, and only in black coffee.....maybe milk. But i gotta have at least a glass of milk to go with it to cut down on the sweetness and heat of the coffee and doughnut.

I have to argue the point there, m'friend...

Many nights have I spent in the sacred halls of the Double D (Dunkin' Donuts ya pervy lot!) speaking at great lengths to companions and coppers, ingesting blood into my caffeine stream to keep me awake...

Thing is, the doughnuts man, they don't sleep...leastwise not around the DC area. You can get kicked out of every bar in DC at closing, wind up at the DD, stay all day (long as you got a coffee and at doughnut with you) and hit the bars again if you are so inclined.

[Edit: On the subject of dunking, many things beg to be dunked -- doughnuts, oreos, wenches, clowns, kit kat bars, charity celebrities of the month, angel food cake, the list goes on. As to why...I say why not? It's a bit of fun on your way to refueling]

A Dodger Dog is the REAL all-American hotdog, which goes perfectly with the REAL all-American sport, Baseball. Originated at Dodger Stadium, and spread like MSBLAST all over the US.

Kit, when I said Dunkin Doughnuts go to sleep at night, it was becaues they survive long enough to have a bedtime. Krispy Kreme doughnuts don't survive that long. Truth be told, sea turtle hatchlings leaving their clutch and heading into the surf have a better chance of seeing the next day than a Krispy Kreme doughnut.