So last night during the adverts for the baseball game I was watching some old Seinfeld episode [and I must say that my love for this show actually grows over time - it was one of the first "adult" TV shows that was ever appointment television for me and now it's been gone so long that I love it all over, but I digress]. It was the one where Kramer thinks he saw Joe Dimaggio @ Dinkin Donuts [and I think it is Dinkin not Dunkin due to copyrights] - dunking a doughnut. I'm not sure why I never noticed this, but it suddenly struck me that I have never dunked a doughnut before and I'm not actually sure what the benefit of doing this would be.
I decided to remedy this situation as quickly as possible. Fortunately my new job is right by a Tim Hortons [and a million other vice-y food outlets] so on my way home from work today I picked up half a dozen doughnuts. At home I brewed up some fresh coffee [Tim Horton's coffee is beyond vile] and I dunked a doughnut. O-kay. Joseph remarked on how so many of my Extraordinary Things end up not so hot. This was kinda one of them. The doughnut [honey dip - I thought plainish would be best and this was my favourite kind as a kid because I really was that boring] was excellent, the coffee also excellent, but when dunked the doughnut too quickly absorbs the coffee and becomes all super-gross-soft and too mooshy. The flavour combination is fantastic, but the texture could not be wronger. I think this would work well with slightly stale doughnuts, although I highly doubt that cool guy Joe Dimaggio would be eating day-olds.
For those interested, some doughnut facts: Canadians consume more doughnuts per capita than any other country, doughnut dunking was alleged to have started when an actress [Mae something, not West] accidentally dropped a doughnut into her coffee in NYC, "Ich bin ein Berliner" does not mean "I am a jelly doughnut."
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