Doughnuts

[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?