We live in alternative realities - yours is a world where biscuits need to be “softened”.
In my version, ships biscuits/hardtack are a thing of the past and hobnobs yield oh so satisfyingly with a few gentle chews. Closest I get to dunking is balancing a Dutch stroopwafel over a coffee cup so that the warm evaporation will tease out some of the firmness from the caramel syrup sandwiched there, still plenty left to get my teeth into though. Generally, I’ll have swallowed my bite of hobnob up before taking my next sip of coffee/tea, I prefer having hot porridge in my mouth in the morning.
Dread to think what you might do with langues de chat or cigarettes russes biscuits