Doughnuts

[wadesworld]

I had an argument in the past about whether doughnuts are a breakfast food or a dessert, so I'm turning to Scoop just out of curiosity.

1) If you had to categorize doughnuts as one or the other, is it a breakfast food or a dessert?
2) Do you spell it doughnut or donut?
3) What is your go to doughnut (jelly filled, glazed, long John, etc.)?

[🏀]

1) Breakfast, only because I've never had a dessert donut.
2) See above.
3) Chocolate glazed, chocolate cake or sugar-coated. Really depends on the vendor.

[mu03eng]

Donuts are a breakfast food full stop, I've never heard of any donut dessert nonsense

Donut

Go to is Apple Fritter, but if you get a bad one they are very bad....there is no such thing as a just OK Apple Fritter. Also partial to sour cream and old fashioned donuts

[mu_hilltopper]

This belongs in NM, but I'll let it slide.

I have dessert donuts with frequency, but I generally think of them as a breakfast item.

Go to donut is cream or jelly filled.  We used to call them "Bismarks" growing up, I imagine that's a Minnesota thing.

[21Jumpstreet]

Breakfast, but one of the best donut experiences I had was in a dangerously fast pedicab on my way to Gordough’s in Austin at 2am. Guess that could be breakfast.

Donut

Peanut Persian or Maple Bacon Long John (really anything from Cranky Al’s)

[WI inferiority Complexes]

I had an argument in the past about whether doughnuts are a breakfast food or a dessert, so I'm turning to Scoop just out of curiosity.

1) If you had to categorize doughnuts as one or the other, is it a breakfast food or a dessert?
2) Do you spell it doughnut or donut?
3) What is your go to doughnut (jelly filled, glazed, long John, etc.)?

1.) If you were talking to someone who would not categorize a donut as breakfast food, he/she is the only person in the world with that opinion.  There's a reason why Dunkin stops making them fresh by 10:00 am.
2.) Donut, unless I'm eating breakfast in London.
3.) Coconut, although that never gets included in a assorted dozen brought to work.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

1. Breakfast
2. As long as it's good, I don't care
3. Chocolate cream filled.

I used to eat a chococate, cream filled long john every morning in McCormick Hall.  Probably why I became a flabby SOB by the age of 24.

[CTWarrior]

1.  Breakfast
2.  Doughnut
3.  Butternut

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Definitely a breakfast food (though I'd eat one for dessert if offered).

I learned doughnut but now I shorthand it to donut.

Im a sucker for old fashioned cake donuts. Best donut I've ever had was at some hipster donut and sliders joint in Nawlins

[MUBBau]

1. Breakfast or snack
2. Donut cuz it has less letters
3. Cruller/Kruller/Crawler, specifically from Grebe’s

[Pakuni]

1. Breakfast
2. Doughnut
3. Marble frosted

[Cheeks]

We have two doughnut / donut stores in town.

One is open 24 hours a day.  The other opens at 4:00am and closes at 11:00am.

The 24 hour store spells it doughnut.  The other spells it donut.

Bavarian Cream go to

[Galway Eagle]

1) An all day every day food

2) donut for cheap, doughnut for fancy

3) donut: chocolate cake, doughnut:  banana, Peanut butter, and bacon.

Edit: there's a guy at the church street market in Galway that fries classic cinnamon donuts fresh when you order. They're easily the best I've ever had.

[Golden Avalanche]

Bomboloni for all three questions.

[LloydsLegs]

Donuts are a breakfast food full stop, I've never heard of any donut dessert nonsense

Donut

Go to is Apple Fritter, but if you get a bad one they are very bad....there is no such thing as a just OK Apple Fritter. Also partial to sour cream and old fashioned donuts

All of this.  And I have never not felt ill after eating one.  But worth it.

[StillAWarrior]

I had an argument in the past about whether doughnuts are a breakfast food or a dessert, so I'm turning to Scoop just out of curiosity.

1) If you had to categorize doughnuts as one or the other, is it a breakfast food or a dessert?
2) Do you spell it doughnut or donut?
3) What is your go to doughnut (jelly filled, glazed, long John, etc.)?

• Breakfast.  Is this even a real question?  I'd recommend never turning your back on the person who was arguing with you about this topic.  She or he is not stable and not to be trusted.
• Doughnut...because I'm fancy that way.
• Depends on how strict you want to be about definitions.  Overall, add me to the Old Fashioned/Sour Cream/Buttermilk Bar camp.  If we're going to be strict on form (i.e., circular with a hole), I lean more toward the more simple glazes than icing -- particularly a good blueberry glaze.

The best traditional doughnuts I've ever had -- and it's not even close -- are from Fractured Prune in Rehoboth Beach.  They're fantastic.  I've found that a lot of places make good Sour Cream/Buttermilk doughnuts, but I really like Spudnuts.

[HouWarrior]

Go to donut is cream or jelly filled.  We used to call them "Bismarks" growing up, I imagine that's a Minnesota thing.

Donuts and Bismarks are sold side by side. They are subtly different.

My great uncle Ed was a lifelong MPLS danish baker...great tasty  stuff. He explained a doughnut always has a hole in it, whereas a Bismark doesn't have a hole... and it is usually filled with something.

I asked Uncle Ed why do you call the filled ones Bismarks ...Ed was a WW1 vet and responded..."because the Bismark was always full of sh#t"

[4everwarriors]

Grain free, gluten free=da only wey ta goe, hey?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Breakfast, but acceptable to eat all day.

Donuts, because thats how Homer Simpson spells them.

Any but coconut.   Whoever said that above should be banned.  Plus, the reason those nastyass pieces of chit aren't put in the assorted is that you get coconut on all the other donuts, which are then ruined.

Jesus wept, i hate coconut.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

I think another important question is raised yeast or cake. 

In advance of everyone's response, those who answer cake are wrong.

[lawdog77]

I had an argument in the past about whether doughnuts are a breakfast food or a dessert, so I'm turning to Scoop just out of curiosity.

1) If you had to categorize doughnuts as one or the other, is it a breakfast food or a dessert?
2) Do you spell it doughnut or donut?
3) What is your go to doughnut (jelly filled, glazed, long John, etc.)?

Let's try to answer this again:
1. Breakfast, but then cake donut leftovers can be made into a variation of bread pudding
2. donut-quicker to write
3. pistachio old fashioned, or french toast donut via donut bar in san diego and scottsdale.

[BrewCity83]

Breakfast
You can spell it either way, but I usually go with donut
Crullers! 

[drewm88]

Donuts and Bismarks are sold side by side. They are subtly different.

My great uncle Ed was a lifelong MPLS danish baker...great tasty  stuff. He explained a doughnut always has a hole in it, whereas a Bismark doesn't have a hole... and it is usually filled with something.

I asked Uncle Ed why do you call the filled ones Bismarks ...Ed was a WW1 vet and responded..."because the Bismark was always full of sh#t"

The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote that a flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no hole is a danish. He was a funny guy.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote that a flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no hole is a danish. He was a funny guy.

Solid reference.   👍

[Chili]

1) Breakfast typically but have them whenever. Had a donut wall at my wedding instead of cake since donuts > cake.
2) donut is preferred but either works.
3) Bismarks or Filled - best I have ever had is the Biscoff Pocket from Stan's in Chicago.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Bolo in Portugal is a beach snack.
Pączki in Poland and Chicago is an entire day.
Fika is from Sweeden and is a coffee break snack in the PM.
Spudnut is from Germany and is a treat but mainly breakfast.

[Jay Bee]

I had an argument in the past about whether doughnuts are a breakfast food or a dessert, so I'm turning to Scoop just out of curiosity.

1) If you had to categorize doughnuts as one or the other, is it a breakfast food or a dessert?
2) Do you spell it doughnut or donut?
3) What is your go to doughnut (jelly filled, glazed, long John, etc.)?

ZFB loves a glazed jelly filled long john

I like a simple blueberry doughnut. For breakfast. But I'll eat it as a snack also

[tower912]

1.  Breakfast.    Or second breakfast.
2.  Donut.
3.  Sweetwater's grasshopper.    Chocolate, mint frosting, chocolate chips on top. 

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

1.  Neither, it is a snack food.
2.  Either is fine
3.  Cherry old fashioned sour cream cakes donuts or jelly filled

[shoothoops]

1) Both
2) Both
3) As a child, vanilla long john.
4) I grew up on my mom’s homemade chocolate chip cookies and for birthdays/special occasions chocolate two layer cake with chocolate icing. She would decorate them with different sports themes.

[T-Bone]

1) Gun to the head, breakfast.  I've had really good whiskey glazed donuts for desert though. 
2) Both.
3) Depends on the place.  Dunkin, I like their blueberry (it's like a Jiffy blueberry muffin).  Anywhere else depends, german/euro bakery - Bavarian Cream, hipster place - whatever sounds interesting, old school place - I'll ask what's their favorite.

[Jables1604]

https://donutcrazy.com/

Local Connecticut joint. Every time I go in there I feel like my head is going to explode.

[WellsstreetWanderer]

If your makin'em  at 6 .a.m they're breakfast

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

If your makin'em  at 6 .a.m they're breakfast

[Dr. Blackheart]

If your makin'em  at 6 .a.m they're breakfast

So, Chili's 50 pound smoked brisket on the spit is breakfast then. Perfetto

[GB Warrior]

1. They're breakfast, though we had donuts for our wedding dessert.
2. See above. I'm a millennial that needs to save keyboard strokes
3. Blueberry fritter. 2nd to red velvet from Holey Moley

[CTWarrior]

https://donutcrazy.com/

Local Connecticut joint. Every time I go in there I feel like my head is going to explode.

That's where I get doughnuts when I have them, which used to be every Sunday and is now, sadly, maybe once every other month.  They make a lot of trendy doughnuts, but their old favorites are fantastic.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Donuts, because thats how Homer Simpson spells them.

Any but coconut.   Whoever said that above should be banned.  Plus, the reason those nastyass pieces of chit aren't put in the assorted is that you get coconut on all the other donuts, which are then ruined.

Jesus wept, i hate coconut.

As well as Dunkin'

Never coconut on or in anything.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

As well as Dunkin'

Never coconut on or in anything.

Not even a Piña Colada

[MU82]

I consider donuts to be dessert or a treat at some other point in the day. Haven't had one for breakfast in decades, as I prefer a morning meal that gives me energy.

Agree about a great apple fritter being delish, and also agree it's hard to get a good one. I used to love the buttermilk knots at Dunkin, but they stopped making them when they went trans-fat free; I still like a buttermilk donut, but not as much as I liked them.

Gotta admit I'm a sucker for a Krispy Kreme classic, especially if a happen to go when they're hot and fresh.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote that a flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no hole is a danish. He was a funny guy.

A flute with one hole is a skin flute

[brewcity77]

1. They are a breakfast dessert. After you've eaten your proper breakfast, they are a fine dessert. They are not a breakfast in and of themselves, nor are they a dessert the way cake or pie would be after dinner.

2. Donut. I know the other is appropriate, but we live in an Internet age, so words get shortened.

3. Grebe's glazed cake with chocolate icing. It's pure sugar-rush overkill, but so good.

[Stronghold]

1. Breakfast, although at my own wedding we had a couple hundred donuts of various types stacked up as the dessert instead of a traditional wedding cake.
2. Donut
3. Maple Long John with cake donuts being a close 2nd.  Cannot stand any type of filled donut.

[rocket surgeon]

ZFB loves a glazed jelly filled long john

I like a simple blueberry doughnut. For breakfast. But I'll eat it as a snack also

Ahh, these are always fun to watch come on zig, you can’t let this one ride...unless...


On the other hand, anyone remember a doughnut shop in downtown Waukesha had the best!  I know, if they were so good, then why does it no longer exist?  Maybe mr Atkins killed it off?  Forget it’s name but I had heard it was staffed and run by a vocational industries thing- not sure, but theirs were incredible. Think krispy kreme but heavy

[warriorchick]

1.  Breakfast.  People who serve them at weddings (including my own niece) are monsters.

2.  Either way, as long as I end up getting to eat one.

3. Maple bacon.  There are several of those fancy schmancy doughnut places in the Loop that charge something like $3 per doughnut.  A total ripoff except for the maple bacon, and even then, I don't eat them unless my companu is buying.

When I was kid growing up in Nashville, Krispy Kreme donuts were the go-to fundraiser for sports teams. You would take orders during the week and deliver on Sunday morning to eat after church.  We charged $1 a dozen.  Those were the good old days.

[forgetful]

1. Definitely Breakfast.

2. Donut. But agree with Chick, as long as I'm getting one you can call it whatever you want.

3. Usually I'm a classic old fashioned buttermilk fan, but lately a bit hooked on blueberry cake donuts from a local stop.

[Lennys Tap]

Breakfast

Doughnut

Long Johns (mentioned by the OP) are my favorites, but a long john is not a doughnut - it's a long john (like a sweet roll is sweet roll or a muffin is a muffin). Of doughnuts, glazed are #1, followed closely by a cake doughnut with chocolate frosting.

[muwarrior69]

Doufnuts!

[4everwarriors]

1.  Breakfast.  People who serve them at weddings (including my own niece) are monsters.

2.  Either way, as long as I end up getting to eat one.

3. Maple bacon.  There are several of those fancy schmancy doughnut places in the Loop that charge something like $3 per doughnut.  A total ripoff except for the maple bacon, and even then, I don't eat them unless my companu is buying.

When I was kid growing up in Nashville, Krispy Kreme donuts were the go-to fundraiser for sports teams. You would take orders during the week and deliver on Sunday morning to eat after church.  We charged $1 a dozen.  Those were the good old days.

Guessin' yur cheap, hey?