Gosh, I don't remember if I've had a DD coffee in the current millennium (maybe I had a donut but not a coffee) so won't be able to put your theory to the test..

Different strokes for different folks. I prefer my coffee short and strong. I�d never order more then the smallest size of long coffee.

i enjoy the coffee-donut combo and I�m not sure when I�ve gone to a donut place for only a donut. I�ve been to people�s homes where they�ve served afternoon / evening donuts without coffee, and I�ve gratefully enjoyed the donuts. But when I go to an actual donut shop, I�m always getting a coffee :-)

I suppose no one here would be caught dead dipping donuts into quality coffee?

Who hurt you?

Here, this way, Visconti :beckoning:
Trick is to have a cup of THICK hot chocolate alongside the coffee and dip your donut/churro into that.
Otherwise it’s like West Mediterranean children dipping croissants/magdalena cakes into their morning caf�-au-lait/caf� con leche. Not sure about the French, but Spaniards generally grow out of the habit and stick to the chocolate if they need a dip.

We’d need a whole thread on “dip or don’t dip”. There are all kinds of foods whose integrity is ruined when it’s dipped into a liquid, but others seem to LOVE the soggification of exquisite crispness. Thick chocolate seems to be where most of us can find common ground.

You should start a thread.

And for the record, I'm very partial to a chocolate hob nob dipped in my afternoon cup of tea. If I'm dipping anything in coffee, it will be a biscotti.

USA_flyer I pressed “like” on your post to show I read it. But I couldn’t possibly start such a thread.

Sure, I wrote “to dip or not dip”, but unless the dipping destination is some kind of emulsification allowing the dipped thing to keep its identity, it’s soul, the correct answer, ALWAYS, is no.

I acknowledge your predilection for dipped hob-nobs, but I am someone who will not even dip biscotti in Vin Santo, doesn’t matter if the biscotti are hard enough to break my teeth.
Dipping stuff into coffee ruins two good things. In this, I am proud to be an unwavering bigot, but I am generous and forgiving to those who wish to learn the true path, redemption is possible.

I thought this was a thing of cartoons or police sitcoms.

I dip Biscoff cookies into the generic, bland coffee at my office.

If I can't donut dip, I can't donut dip man. If I'm hurt, I'm hurt. I mean � simple as that. It ain't about that... I mean it's... It's not about that... At all. You know what I'm saying I mean... But it's...it's easy � to, to talk about... It's easy to sum it up when you're just talking about donut dip. We're sitting in here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about donut dip. I mean, listen, we're talking about donut dip, not a game, not a game, not a game, we talking about donut dip. Not a game. Not, not � Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game, but we're talking about donut dip, man. I mean, how silly is that? � And we talking about donut dip. I know I supposed to be there. I know I'm supposed to lead by example... I know that... And I'm not.. I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I do. I honestly do... But we're talking about donut dip man. What are we talking about? donut dip? We're talking about donut dip, man. [laughter from the media crowd] We're talking about donut dip. We're talking about donut dip. We ain't talking about the game. [more laughter] We're talking about donut dip, man. When you come to the arena, and you see me play, you see me play don't you? You've seen me give everything I've got, right? But we're talking about donut dip right now.

Dipping into cold or hot beverages is still healthier than dipping into tobacco products. Yet even that is legal and okay. Just do it :-)

So if you don't dunk your biccie in your tea, how do you soften it before chewing it? Hob nobs are too crunchy to be eaten without some form of liquid to soften them, saliva doesn't cut it. Same is true of almost all biscuits.

My mother, bless her, will take a bite of biscuit and then a gulp of tea to speed the softening process. Personally I find the process revolting and much prefer to dunk. I have actually let her know this and I think I hurt her feelings.

Is this the "we talking about PRACTICE" copy-paste? Impressive hahaha

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