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 Sultan]

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.