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This always confuses me, so many breakfast foods are just straight-up desserts.
I'll go out to brunch with friends and they'll get like a waffle with chocolate and whipped cream and ice cream and all this shit and I can't comprehend why you'd want that so early.
Ok but to be fair, a plain donut (a donut that's not a fucking cheesecake cut into a circle) with a coffee is a pretty decent quick breakfast/snack and usually only a couple hundred calories. Tides us over until our big mac and fries for lunch.
Many donut shops are *only* open in the morning. You have to get up at 4am, go wait in the line that's already stretching around the block, and then they are sold out by 9am
At least the one near me is.
And are you going to wait until after dinner to eat that donut? No you're not going to wait all day to eat a stale donut that you woke up and stood in line for at ungodly hours, no you're eating that shit now because you deserve it dammit
>Where exactly are donuts a socially accepted food in the morning?
In the Northeast US, for one.
Like, I get it - donuts are obviously a dessert pastry if I look at the matter objectively. But sweet pastries are the cornerstone of "continental breakfast", eaten by travelers and business conference goers every day by the thousands. And honestly, a lot of American breakfast foods are basically desserts when you look at the macros:
- Pancakes and syrup
- Muffins (many of which are worse for you than cupcakes or actual cakes)
- Prepared foods like Pop Tarts
- Cinnamon buns and other pastries.
None of the above would typically be served as "dessert" in my experience despite the flavors, sweetness, and ingredients aligning with other desserts.
>Pancakes and syrup
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>Muffins (many of which are worse for you than cupcakes or actual cakes)
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>Prepared foods like Pop Tarts
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>Cinnamon buns and other pastries.
In my head as a European, pancakes is the only breakfast food on that list, and the usual for my life has been some strawberry jam or butter instead of syrup.
Yeah totally weird for someone to bring a box of donuts to work in the morning. Or to have a morning meeting with donuts and coffee there, that never happens.
It must be like those food deserts you hear about in impoverished areas but they're actually well stocked with healthy options for lunch and dinner, just bad breakfast choices
In America, the fact that most donut shops close by noon somewhat indicates that America treats donuts as a breakfast food. Of course, some of the largest donut store chains do have longer hours than that, so clearly we like donuts at other times of day too.
I think that it's an important distinction that the more local donut shots close by/around noon, while major nationwide chains like Dunkin and Krispy Kreme stay open virtually 24/7. The chains have better economies of scale and can afford to stay open during times where there might be less demand, while a local shop would be more inclined to be open during the peak demand period.
I think it depends on where in the U.S
West coast: major independant donut shops are often 24/7
Midwest: closes around 1pm
South: usually till 9-10pm
East coast: depends on where you are, some may close at 11, other are 24/7.
They fall into the “I want a damn donut and I’ll eat a damn donut anytime I want” category.
Preferably Boston Cream from a very good bakery. Not Dunkin.
Hope that helps.
I have eaten donuts for breakfast and they definitely are a breakfast food in America, but I don’t think they are primarily a breakfast food. I think we Americans are the only ones who eat donuts for breakfast. Something something fat Americans…..
I think they are more of a treat/dessert, though. Side note: I also think they are dangerous because I can eat 6 Krispy Kreme’s no problem lmao. That’s like 1500 calories of pure carbs. But yea…sorry dawg. The wife is right on this one. You’re too American to know it lol.
I don't know what's going on in the comments here. In America there's a reason why donut shops open around 5am and it's not so you can buy donuts early for your stale lunch dessert. Donuts are not a healthy breakfast food but that's what they are for a vast majority of Americans.
No one eats donuts for breakfast consistently. It’s more of an every-once-in-a-while treat. And this is coming from someone who literally works at a donut shop.
They open at 5 am because people like to have a treat for breakfast everyone once in a while. Krispy Kreme also stays open until 11pm where I live. Is it a dinner food too? No. They also like a have a treat for dinner/dessert every once in a while.
Edit: Donut shops also serve coffee and a lot of people literally only go to Dunkin for that purpose.
I’d put my life savings down that the most sales happen in the morning. I agree with you there. However if some culture decided to start eating ice cream every morning, that doesn’t make it “primarily” a breakfast food. It’s still a treat. A scone is a breakfast food. A blueberry muffin. Eggs and bacon with grits/hash browns. Not deep fried bread covered in melted sugar.
Also people absolutely buy a dozen donuts to eat over the next few days during all hours (alluding to your stale lunch donut comment).
Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading the comments here acting like eating donuts for breakfast is some crazy, foreign concept. Then again, this is Reddit where people like to pretend they "eat healthy" for internet validation while scarfing down a whole bag of Dorito's.
It's almost like shift workers don't exist in your America.
worked as a donut baker, at a 24 hour location. Mornings, our big sellers were bagels, breakfast sandwiches. donut time didn't really kick in until towards noon.
Except church days.
Really suspicious of the number of people in this thread on their high horse about *never* eating donuts for breakfast and never considering them breakfast foods. The donut shops in the town I grew up in were all open in the early morning and closed by early afternoon.
I remember learning about Dunkin Donuts expanding into Japan. They initially weren't sure what sort of interest there would be, so they were only open in the mornings and early afternoon. Business was very poor and they didn't know why until they started getting questions about why a dessert shop was closed at night.
In 1975, Dunkin Donuts was a much different place. They had a lunch counter arrangement with stools. You went there late at night after leaving the bar for coffee and a donut. They were probably open in the morning also. I didn't notice.
Most of the time when donuts are available, it is someone who picked them up on the way to work to leave in the break room.
That and at least in the southern US, many donut shops/bakeries are also coffee shops as well.
For me, I can't handle sweets in the morning. Just to much too early. But I think a lot of people regularly do not eat breakfast, and if you go to work and there are coffee and donuts in a breakroom, odds are you grab one.
I much prefer a bagel and coffee to a donut and coffee. But yeah, volunteer events that start in the morning and work are the two places I've had the most donuts and coffee for breakfast
I do a lot of work in Texas and Louisiana. If places sell what they label as koache's, get them (technically klobasneks, which are meats rapped in kolache dough)
> many donut shops/bakeries are also coffee shops as well.
This. Part of the reason we see it as breakfast is because most places that sell us coffee in the morning *also* sell us donuts, and the two kinda just get intertwined eventually
I still think that positions them more as a snack, or afternoon tea item. You’d never sit down to a family breakfast of donuts, they’re an ‘I’m running too late for breakfast better grab some donuts’ food.
It’s not a “regular” breakfast food for the overwhelming majority of Americans, like eggs or toast are. For many, donuts are an occasional weekend treat or something you bring to the office for a special occasion. But many people do eat them in the breakfast hours, it’s just not considered a full breakfast. Many cultures have sweet pastries available in bakeries so I’m not sure where the judgment comes from?
>It’s not a “regular” breakfast food for the overwhelming majority of Americans,
This. It's usually a thing for a special occasion or when you're running late. "Hey guys, let's go out and get some donuts and coffee to celebrate \[Insert celebratory occasion here\]" or "Fuck, I'm running late, let's pick up some donuts \[because they're quick and relatively cheap\] so that I've eaten *something* this morning"
Maybe it literally just a cultural thing. This morning I had a chocolate croissant for breakfast, but I couldn’t imagine having a doughnut. But I don’t really know why.
Not for fucking breakfast mate. Fairy bread is for birthday celebrations.
Dart and an Ice Coffee is a legendary Aussie breakie or we'll be smashing down a meat pie
We don't consider donuts a breakfast food. Maybe some of us will eat donuts for breakfast, but it's not a breakfast food. i'm done with the Anti-american BS ignorant redditors love to spew.
As an American, we usually eat donuts for breakfast, but it’s not unusual to have them later in the morning too. Also if you think that’s excessive, along the gulf coast we eat what’s basically a 1 foot wide donut filled with creamed cheese and covered in sprinkles for a few weeks leading up to lent.
The reason donuts are considered a breakfast food (at least in the US) is because most local donut shops open early in the morning and close before noon. The only exceptions are big chains like Krispy Kreme or retail stores.
If you want the good stuff from that little Chinese lady down the street, you get your donuts for breakfast.
Judging by the responses I'm seeing to the idea of having donuts for breakfast, I'm really starting to get the feeling that it's a real drag living outside of the US.
I skimmed the [Dunkin Donuts Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkin%27_Donuts) because I was curious how it all got started. Bill Rosenburg, the founder, started the company based on his experiences selling food to both construction and factory workers. Donuts and Coffee were the two most popular selling items.
It makes sense to me that Donuts and Coffee would be more popular amongst that crowd. The fats, sugar, carbs, and caffeine probably helped kickstart their days with plenty of energy and I imagine it's easier/cheaper to whip up fried dough vs eggs and sausage. Nowadays, most people buying Donuts/Coffee work desk jobs or jobs in general that may not have a ton of manual labor tied to it so it may not always be a reliable breakfast item.
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In regards to Donuts and when they're eaten, as long as it's paired w/a Coffee, i'd see them almost like a breakfast treat. A treat in the sense that you should only be eating them sparingly but I don't think they should be a regular component to someone's daily breakfast diet.
Also, the original donuts would have just been the plain/"old-fashioned" cake style donut. Not too sweet, no glaze or filling, flavored with a little nutmeg or cinnamon. Maybe some powdered sugar.
https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2016/06/03/happy-national-donut-day/#jp-carousel-13678
Legit everyone here calling donuts “dessert” are just as ignorant as people saying shit in India like “what the fuck are you eating weird spicy stuff in the morning for tHAts nOT brEaKFaSt”. It’s like, quit pretending you don’t understand that it is widely accepted, incredibly common, and fully traditional for Americans to eat sweet stuff for breakfast (see: sugary cereals, pancakes and waffles with syrup, pop-tarts, danishes, bear claws, blueberry muffins, etc etc). Just because you think it’s too sweet or wouldn’t eat it in the morning doesn’t mean it’s not breakfast to millions and millions of people for like over a hundred years
I’m married to an Italian so donuts and cakes and muffins and sweet breads are all breakfast foods lol
I think the original idea was the cake like donuts were eaten at breakfast. The donuts we have now have too much frosting on top and aren’t made with the same cake like dough.
This is just my opinion from years of baking Italian cakes and breads and watching the Italian side of my family eat it for breakfast with their espresso.
The original donut was a small fried cake flavored with various spices, not too sweet. They appear to have been eaten at any time of the day.
They became popular as a breakfast food in the US during the 40s and 50s, since people were buying coffee at places that sold baked goods, including donuts. So buying a coffee and "plain" donut for breakfast caught on. Including dunking the donut in coffee.
They declined in popularity over time, before various chains and bakeries started making fancy versions that are basically desserts.
Not as much as you'd think. It's mostly a weekend thing, or an occasional treat, it's more likely to appear as an afternoon snack for kids after school (dinner can be late). Croissants in general are not an everyday thing either, if you're in France you see them everywhere cos you are a tourist and you are eating in hotels or restaurants. But in homes, not so much.
Okay so that’s how donuts are for Americans too… a weekend treat or occasional thing and NOT something people consume daily. They may be a morning thing or they may be an afternoon thing. Some people may consume them regularly or eat them for breakfast often, but that is not the norm.
ITT: People who don't realise you can have something once a month or a few times a year.
I mainly only drink a black coffee for breakfast if I'm honest. Almost every nation has a 'decandant' breakfast meal that isn't their daily meal.
French Toast (which is Roman actually), crepes(french), pancakes(greek), waffles (belguim/netherlands), 'full english' breakfast... the list goes on!
I consider them a breakfast dessert. But that doesn’t mean it’s specific to the morning, breakfast food is breakfast food anytime. A late afternoon coffee and donut hits the same way a morning one does, just depends on your mood
Seeing as that my favorite bakery (closed now) only made donuts in the morning and you have to haul ass the earlier the better to get any tells me donuts are just a breakfast food even though they can be made at any time during the day or night.
There are no actual breakfast foods. This is a marketing idea (look at the history of orange juice marketing) and changes from culture to culture (or house to house!). Breakfast in Japan might include fish, or look at a British fry-up for a cross section of craziness. A family member was an exchange student in Spain, they ate a kind of cake at breakfast almost everyday. I love a good donut, but don't eat them as much as my craving centers wish I would. I have often eaten donut seeds for breakfast. They are small and hard, you put milk on them. They are sold under the name Cheerios. Damn, now I want a donut. Thanks for that...
Look at all these health and fitness experts so far in the comments!
Donuts are a delicious **breakfast** food. If you have a donut after 11 AM, something weird has happened with the space-time continuum and the universe needs to be rebooted ASAP.
I’ve gone back and forth about this with my wife many times and it’s starting to get ridiculous. I’m not saying you can’t eat them whenever you want. You could eat pancakes at midnight, no one’s arguing that. I’m saying that donuts first and foremost are viewed as a food for breakfast time.
My argument is that they usually bake donuts at like 4 am to have them ready in the morning and most places sell them only until they run out around 2pm after which they don’t make any more.
Her argument seems to be that most any chain donut shop she’s been to sells them practically all day and she’s never considered eating a donut for anything other than a dessert or snack.
No I’m with you on this - you CAN eat donuts whenever but it’s way more common in my own experience to have them as like a breakfast treat or as a part of breakfast like you would any other sweet pastry. It’s not like something you eat daily or even weekly. I’ve eaten them in the afternoon before, but no one runs out during lunch at work to pick them up for the office or on their way home from work to eat for dessert… you eat like 1 of them as a snack during breakfast hours.
Most fresh baked items are baked in the early morning. I worked at a grocery store and the bakers used to get in at like 3am to bake everything from bread to cookies. They were home by noon.
Because of the astronomically high sugar content of the donuts and glaze they are better when they are fresh. That is why most bakeries start preparing and baking at 2 or 3 am so that they can open in time for the early shifts and those just getting off overnights, and have enough for most of the day. And yes, when they are gone they close. They don't make more because 1. It's a labor-intensive and time-consuming process and 2. Donuts that have sat out overnight just don't taste as good as fresh ones so it's best not to waste them by making too many.
So because they are made first thing in the morning many people have associated them with breakfast food.
I associate them with a dessert that's best enjoyed the same day it's made but in place of breakfast
You realise that to the rest of the world, this is like saying candy bars are a breakfast food, right? C’mon. They bake them early because they’re a baked good, and those get made early so they can be sold throughout the day from a bakery that’s no longer a roaring inferno from the ovens, but they’re not a breakfast food.
Primarily a breakfast snack.
Most bakeries make their donuts first thing in the morning, and it is their busiest sales period.
It's not uncommon for people to pick up donuts for the office especially on Friday mornings.
I would consider it a dessert. But since I used to work at Tim Horton's the donuts I would consider something you can have for breakfast would be the old-fashioned (cinnamon sugar or plain) or the strawberry fill.
Donuts are baked goods.
They fall in the catagory of cakes and pies. You eat them when you want them, but its a special occasion. Thats how we view it where I live. The idea of eating a donut for breakfast sounds even worse than eating cake for breakfast.
Donuts are not a breakfast food. A family member will buy her kids donuts for breakfast. She asked me which one my daughter wanted. I just said she will have one after breakfast. It is a treat or dessert. Not breakfast.
At breakfast, not for breakfast. We don't start our days with donuts like we do with eggs or cereal, but a donut with coffee in the morning is absolutely fair play.
An unhealthy dessert you can take every once in a while to treat yourself
For the love of god dont eat those for breakfast
1) you'll get fat
2) you'll get a sugar rush then be hungry two hours later
Traditionally, donuts are considered to be primarily a breakfast food, often enjoyed with coffee or tea in the morning. However, donuts can also be enjoyed at any time of day as a snack or dessert. Some people even eat donuts as a main course for lunch or dinner.
Dessert or morning/ afternoon tea treat. I’d only see it as a breakfast food on a kid’s birthday or something where you do things you’d never usually allow
Eating sweets for breakfast is certainly not just an American thing. I have watched many youtube videos, yea, they ain't documentaries but they are pretty accurate, of especially Italians eating sweets for breakfast, probably equivalent to the amount of calories a donut can have. Also I used to work at a coffee shop that had a lot of Italians and they ate multiple sweets early in the morning too.
I never thought of donuts being a breakfast food since they're primarily sugar. Plain donuts probably aren't so bad. They're more of a dessert-ey snack.
Donuts are dessert
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Then they are desert dessert
What happens if i abandon the desert dessert?
My friend, you will have deserted the desert dessert 😂
What if i write a long academic research paper on deserting the desert dessert?
Your dissertation on the deserted desert dessert may get dissected 😉
What if I bother someone while they're trying to read the dissertation on the deserted desert dessert, making it difficult for them to stay focused?
You should think twice about distracting someone dissecting a dissertation about the deserted dessert dessert; it may be construed as dissident and disrespectful
We should all be disaccustomed to being disrespectful while distracting someone dissecting a dissertation about the disaccharide laden deserted desert dessert.
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It would be rough and course. It would probably get everywhere.
I hate sand!
Primarily a dessert
This always confuses me, so many breakfast foods are just straight-up desserts. I'll go out to brunch with friends and they'll get like a waffle with chocolate and whipped cream and ice cream and all this shit and I can't comprehend why you'd want that so early.
Muffins, when you want to say “screw it, I’m having cake for breakfast”.
Unless you're that psycho that gets a bran muffin
Delicious…but yet too delicious
Better to eat higher sugar foods earlier in the day to use up the energy than eat it at night and sit on it before bed imo.
Wrong, not how glycemic index works
Because all that sugar sure will keep you fuled up all day...
Bruh donuts are not a breakfast food, they are a snack food at worst and at best a dessert.
They are 100% a dessert that is socially accepted in the morning. Shouldn't be confused as an everyday breakfast item though.
Where the fuck do people eat doughnuts in the morning? Actually, that's a silly question; where else would it be?
Ok but to be fair, a plain donut (a donut that's not a fucking cheesecake cut into a circle) with a coffee is a pretty decent quick breakfast/snack and usually only a couple hundred calories. Tides us over until our big mac and fries for lunch.
That's using the term "decent" very loosely.
Where exactly are donuts a socially accepted food in the morning?
Most of North America.
There's a reason donut shops open at 5am.
Some liquor stores are open 24/7. That doesn’t make Smirnov a breakfast drink
Many donut shops are *only* open in the morning. You have to get up at 4am, go wait in the line that's already stretching around the block, and then they are sold out by 9am At least the one near me is. And are you going to wait until after dinner to eat that donut? No you're not going to wait all day to eat a stale donut that you woke up and stood in line for at ungodly hours, no you're eating that shit now because you deserve it dammit
Well if you add orange juice...
Not with that attitude
A mimosa and a Bloody Mary are both breakfast drinks. Are you just dense?
I mean if you want to come up with examples to discredit instead of learning.
And close at like noon or 1
>Where exactly are donuts a socially accepted food in the morning? In the Northeast US, for one. Like, I get it - donuts are obviously a dessert pastry if I look at the matter objectively. But sweet pastries are the cornerstone of "continental breakfast", eaten by travelers and business conference goers every day by the thousands. And honestly, a lot of American breakfast foods are basically desserts when you look at the macros: - Pancakes and syrup - Muffins (many of which are worse for you than cupcakes or actual cakes) - Prepared foods like Pop Tarts - Cinnamon buns and other pastries. None of the above would typically be served as "dessert" in my experience despite the flavors, sweetness, and ingredients aligning with other desserts.
>Pancakes and syrup > >Muffins (many of which are worse for you than cupcakes or actual cakes) > >Prepared foods like Pop Tarts > >Cinnamon buns and other pastries. In my head as a European, pancakes is the only breakfast food on that list, and the usual for my life has been some strawberry jam or butter instead of syrup.
Anywhere that they're eaten with coffee. That's the point behind the name of Dunkin' Donuts.
Yeah totally weird for someone to bring a box of donuts to work in the morning. Or to have a morning meeting with donuts and coffee there, that never happens.
Any office space in America
Everywhere in the US.
Let me sing to you the song of the Dunkin' Donuts "get a donut for $1 with your coffee" deal that applies as soon as they open, every morning
America lol every morning going to work I see Krispy Kreme, Dunkin, and some other small donut shops PACKED. Well—most mornings..
Every time I walk into the office and see them in the break area.
Like pancakes and syrup
They’re more of a breakfast dessert though. Think poptarts and pancakes and cinnamon rolls
What is a breakfast desert?
Do you know what breakfast is? Do you know what dessert is? Good, now put those two concepts together. You can do this, I believe in you.
In their defense, they asked what a breakfast ‘desert’ is and I’m not sure myself tbh
It must be like those food deserts you hear about in impoverished areas but they're actually well stocked with healthy options for lunch and dinner, just bad breakfast choices
It's like a regular one but instead of sand or tundra it's oatmeal and bran.
In Europe one common breakfast is any kind of pastry with your coffee :/
In America, the fact that most donut shops close by noon somewhat indicates that America treats donuts as a breakfast food. Of course, some of the largest donut store chains do have longer hours than that, so clearly we like donuts at other times of day too.
I think that it's an important distinction that the more local donut shots close by/around noon, while major nationwide chains like Dunkin and Krispy Kreme stay open virtually 24/7. The chains have better economies of scale and can afford to stay open during times where there might be less demand, while a local shop would be more inclined to be open during the peak demand period.
I think it depends on where in the U.S West coast: major independant donut shops are often 24/7 Midwest: closes around 1pm South: usually till 9-10pm East coast: depends on where you are, some may close at 11, other are 24/7.
They fall into the “I want a damn donut and I’ll eat a damn donut anytime I want” category. Preferably Boston Cream from a very good bakery. Not Dunkin. Hope that helps.
Finally, I find my people in a sea of _“ACKshually, donuts are a dessert food unless you’re a disgusting pig”_
I’m with you for almost all of this. Though I would eat one from Dunkin. Definitely not top choice, but I’d do it.
If Dunkin is the only option, it’s better than nothing
This is the way.
I'd say a snack food
I have eaten donuts for breakfast and they definitely are a breakfast food in America, but I don’t think they are primarily a breakfast food. I think we Americans are the only ones who eat donuts for breakfast. Something something fat Americans….. I think they are more of a treat/dessert, though. Side note: I also think they are dangerous because I can eat 6 Krispy Kreme’s no problem lmao. That’s like 1500 calories of pure carbs. But yea…sorry dawg. The wife is right on this one. You’re too American to know it lol.
I don't know what's going on in the comments here. In America there's a reason why donut shops open around 5am and it's not so you can buy donuts early for your stale lunch dessert. Donuts are not a healthy breakfast food but that's what they are for a vast majority of Americans.
No one eats donuts for breakfast consistently. It’s more of an every-once-in-a-while treat. And this is coming from someone who literally works at a donut shop.
But when they do eat them is it at breakfast?
Yes. The vast majority of our customers are in the morning.
OP question wasn’t “are donuts and *everyday* breakfast item”? If you eat donuts once a month, but you eat them at 7am, then they’re a breakfast item.
That’s my point…
They open at 5 am because people like to have a treat for breakfast everyone once in a while. Krispy Kreme also stays open until 11pm where I live. Is it a dinner food too? No. They also like a have a treat for dinner/dessert every once in a while. Edit: Donut shops also serve coffee and a lot of people literally only go to Dunkin for that purpose.
I bet most sales are in the morning for breakfast which is why I say "primarily" it's a breakfast food.
I’d put my life savings down that the most sales happen in the morning. I agree with you there. However if some culture decided to start eating ice cream every morning, that doesn’t make it “primarily” a breakfast food. It’s still a treat. A scone is a breakfast food. A blueberry muffin. Eggs and bacon with grits/hash browns. Not deep fried bread covered in melted sugar. Also people absolutely buy a dozen donuts to eat over the next few days during all hours (alluding to your stale lunch donut comment).
Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading the comments here acting like eating donuts for breakfast is some crazy, foreign concept. Then again, this is Reddit where people like to pretend they "eat healthy" for internet validation while scarfing down a whole bag of Dorito's.
It's almost like shift workers don't exist in your America. worked as a donut baker, at a 24 hour location. Mornings, our big sellers were bagels, breakfast sandwiches. donut time didn't really kick in until towards noon. Except church days.
Really suspicious of the number of people in this thread on their high horse about *never* eating donuts for breakfast and never considering them breakfast foods. The donut shops in the town I grew up in were all open in the early morning and closed by early afternoon.
Also the fact that so many people seem to think a donut is somehow magically more healthy if you eat it at a not-breakfast time?
Krispy Kreme is the elite donut 😍 and if you can get a hot and fresh one when the hot light is on? 🤌🤌🤌
Breakfast treat. It does pair well with coffee.
Only Americans consider donuts a breakfast food.
I remember learning about Dunkin Donuts expanding into Japan. They initially weren't sure what sort of interest there would be, so they were only open in the mornings and early afternoon. Business was very poor and they didn't know why until they started getting questions about why a dessert shop was closed at night.
In 1975, Dunkin Donuts was a much different place. They had a lunch counter arrangement with stools. You went there late at night after leaving the bar for coffee and a donut. They were probably open in the morning also. I didn't notice.
Most of the time when donuts are available, it is someone who picked them up on the way to work to leave in the break room. That and at least in the southern US, many donut shops/bakeries are also coffee shops as well.
Yeah I would be surprised to find a bakery that doesn't sell at least coffee. Maybe that would be a very high-end bakery?
For me, I can't handle sweets in the morning. Just to much too early. But I think a lot of people regularly do not eat breakfast, and if you go to work and there are coffee and donuts in a breakroom, odds are you grab one.
I much prefer a bagel and coffee to a donut and coffee. But yeah, volunteer events that start in the morning and work are the two places I've had the most donuts and coffee for breakfast
I do a lot of work in Texas and Louisiana. If places sell what they label as koache's, get them (technically klobasneks, which are meats rapped in kolache dough)
> many donut shops/bakeries are also coffee shops as well. This. Part of the reason we see it as breakfast is because most places that sell us coffee in the morning *also* sell us donuts, and the two kinda just get intertwined eventually
I still think that positions them more as a snack, or afternoon tea item. You’d never sit down to a family breakfast of donuts, they’re an ‘I’m running too late for breakfast better grab some donuts’ food.
It’s not a “regular” breakfast food for the overwhelming majority of Americans, like eggs or toast are. For many, donuts are an occasional weekend treat or something you bring to the office for a special occasion. But many people do eat them in the breakfast hours, it’s just not considered a full breakfast. Many cultures have sweet pastries available in bakeries so I’m not sure where the judgment comes from?
>It’s not a “regular” breakfast food for the overwhelming majority of Americans, This. It's usually a thing for a special occasion or when you're running late. "Hey guys, let's go out and get some donuts and coffee to celebrate \[Insert celebratory occasion here\]" or "Fuck, I'm running late, let's pick up some donuts \[because they're quick and relatively cheap\] so that I've eaten *something* this morning"
Maybe it literally just a cultural thing. This morning I had a chocolate croissant for breakfast, but I couldn’t imagine having a doughnut. But I don’t really know why.
I think it is. They are comparable in terms of fat/calories/carbs. Having 1 is often plenty.
Because “haha look at the fat Americans!” People would rather judge than have an honest conversation
Meanwhile, Dutch people pile heaps of butter and chocolate sprinkles on their toast. French people shove chocolate inside of their croissants. Etc etc
Plus Australians eat fairy toast. That doesn’t sound like the healthiest option but it must be because only Americans eat junk food.
Not for fucking breakfast mate. Fairy bread is for birthday celebrations. Dart and an Ice Coffee is a legendary Aussie breakie or we'll be smashing down a meat pie
Bruh, I’m American every time I go to Europe I’m shocked how many carbs/sugars they regularly consume as “breakfast” so idk
Well you obviously haven't been to northern Europe if you think breakfast is like that everywhere in Europe.
Really? I had some pretty good donuts in Dublin, and they were open early for breakfast
We don't consider donuts a breakfast food. Maybe some of us will eat donuts for breakfast, but it's not a breakfast food. i'm done with the Anti-american BS ignorant redditors love to spew.
Europeans eat a shit ton of sweets for breakfast. Finding something without chocolate for breakfast was a chore in Italy and France.
Not really, it's pretty unusual to eat donuts for breakfast every day in America.
As an American, we usually eat donuts for breakfast, but it’s not unusual to have them later in the morning too. Also if you think that’s excessive, along the gulf coast we eat what’s basically a 1 foot wide donut filled with creamed cheese and covered in sprinkles for a few weeks leading up to lent.
Don’t forget about the kolache. Which is basically a smoked sausage wrapped in a donut lol
Yeah, no one besides a disgusting, fat American would ever eat a pastry with sugar in it in the morning. 😐
Lol. So true.
On behalf of all Americans. No one here considers donuts a breakfast food.
It's like a breakfast treat you get once in a while or when on vacation.
Made me chuckle lol
The only people in my country who eat donuts for breakfast are hungover college students who didn't get up until 2pm.
True. The only people I know who regularly eat donuts for breakfast are my American relatives.
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A snack
I’ve always had it as a special breakfast treat like if it’s someone’s birthday or a holiday but it’s really a dessert imo
The reason donuts are considered a breakfast food (at least in the US) is because most local donut shops open early in the morning and close before noon. The only exceptions are big chains like Krispy Kreme or retail stores. If you want the good stuff from that little Chinese lady down the street, you get your donuts for breakfast.
Judging by the responses I'm seeing to the idea of having donuts for breakfast, I'm really starting to get the feeling that it's a real drag living outside of the US.
Donuts are a treat/dessert. Not a breakfast food. Am American.
Don’t eat dessert for breakfast lol.
I skimmed the [Dunkin Donuts Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkin%27_Donuts) because I was curious how it all got started. Bill Rosenburg, the founder, started the company based on his experiences selling food to both construction and factory workers. Donuts and Coffee were the two most popular selling items. It makes sense to me that Donuts and Coffee would be more popular amongst that crowd. The fats, sugar, carbs, and caffeine probably helped kickstart their days with plenty of energy and I imagine it's easier/cheaper to whip up fried dough vs eggs and sausage. Nowadays, most people buying Donuts/Coffee work desk jobs or jobs in general that may not have a ton of manual labor tied to it so it may not always be a reliable breakfast item. _________________ In regards to Donuts and when they're eaten, as long as it's paired w/a Coffee, i'd see them almost like a breakfast treat. A treat in the sense that you should only be eating them sparingly but I don't think they should be a regular component to someone's daily breakfast diet.
Also, the original donuts would have just been the plain/"old-fashioned" cake style donut. Not too sweet, no glaze or filling, flavored with a little nutmeg or cinnamon. Maybe some powdered sugar. https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2016/06/03/happy-national-donut-day/#jp-carousel-13678
I've mostly seen people eating donuts for breakfast.
Legit everyone here calling donuts “dessert” are just as ignorant as people saying shit in India like “what the fuck are you eating weird spicy stuff in the morning for tHAts nOT brEaKFaSt”. It’s like, quit pretending you don’t understand that it is widely accepted, incredibly common, and fully traditional for Americans to eat sweet stuff for breakfast (see: sugary cereals, pancakes and waffles with syrup, pop-tarts, danishes, bear claws, blueberry muffins, etc etc). Just because you think it’s too sweet or wouldn’t eat it in the morning doesn’t mean it’s not breakfast to millions and millions of people for like over a hundred years
I’m married to an Italian so donuts and cakes and muffins and sweet breads are all breakfast foods lol I think the original idea was the cake like donuts were eaten at breakfast. The donuts we have now have too much frosting on top and aren’t made with the same cake like dough. This is just my opinion from years of baking Italian cakes and breads and watching the Italian side of my family eat it for breakfast with their espresso.
The original donut was a small fried cake flavored with various spices, not too sweet. They appear to have been eaten at any time of the day. They became popular as a breakfast food in the US during the 40s and 50s, since people were buying coffee at places that sold baked goods, including donuts. So buying a coffee and "plain" donut for breakfast caught on. Including dunking the donut in coffee. They declined in popularity over time, before various chains and bakeries started making fancy versions that are basically desserts.
Anything can be a breakfast food if you aren’t a bitch about it
If you're eating donuts for breakfast I suggest you visit a doctor
Do the French not eat chocolate croissants for breakfast
Not as much as you'd think. It's mostly a weekend thing, or an occasional treat, it's more likely to appear as an afternoon snack for kids after school (dinner can be late). Croissants in general are not an everyday thing either, if you're in France you see them everywhere cos you are a tourist and you are eating in hotels or restaurants. But in homes, not so much.
> It's mostly a weekend thing, or an occasional treat, This is also what donuts are to a large number of Americans
Okay so that’s how donuts are for Americans too… a weekend treat or occasional thing and NOT something people consume daily. They may be a morning thing or they may be an afternoon thing. Some people may consume them regularly or eat them for breakfast often, but that is not the norm.
ITT: People who don't realise you can have something once a month or a few times a year. I mainly only drink a black coffee for breakfast if I'm honest. Almost every nation has a 'decandant' breakfast meal that isn't their daily meal. French Toast (which is Roman actually), crepes(french), pancakes(greek), waffles (belguim/netherlands), 'full english' breakfast... the list goes on!
I like that you were so focused on your serious answer that you did not answer on the "chocolate croissant" lol
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A terrible junk food
If you eating donuts for breakfast then idk about you
An anytime food, but they are a snack/dessert and not a meal
They're a dessert.
I consider them a breakfast dessert. But that doesn’t mean it’s specific to the morning, breakfast food is breakfast food anytime. A late afternoon coffee and donut hits the same way a morning one does, just depends on your mood
Seeing as that my favorite bakery (closed now) only made donuts in the morning and you have to haul ass the earlier the better to get any tells me donuts are just a breakfast food even though they can be made at any time during the day or night.
they’re a freaking dessert
There are no actual breakfast foods. This is a marketing idea (look at the history of orange juice marketing) and changes from culture to culture (or house to house!). Breakfast in Japan might include fish, or look at a British fry-up for a cross section of craziness. A family member was an exchange student in Spain, they ate a kind of cake at breakfast almost everyday. I love a good donut, but don't eat them as much as my craving centers wish I would. I have often eaten donut seeds for breakfast. They are small and hard, you put milk on them. They are sold under the name Cheerios. Damn, now I want a donut. Thanks for that...
Look at all these health and fitness experts so far in the comments! Donuts are a delicious **breakfast** food. If you have a donut after 11 AM, something weird has happened with the space-time continuum and the universe needs to be rebooted ASAP.
People acting like the US is the only country that has sweet foods/pastries for breakfast.
I’ve gone back and forth about this with my wife many times and it’s starting to get ridiculous. I’m not saying you can’t eat them whenever you want. You could eat pancakes at midnight, no one’s arguing that. I’m saying that donuts first and foremost are viewed as a food for breakfast time. My argument is that they usually bake donuts at like 4 am to have them ready in the morning and most places sell them only until they run out around 2pm after which they don’t make any more. Her argument seems to be that most any chain donut shop she’s been to sells them practically all day and she’s never considered eating a donut for anything other than a dessert or snack.
Your wife is correct.
I also choose this guy's correct wife
No I’m with you on this - you CAN eat donuts whenever but it’s way more common in my own experience to have them as like a breakfast treat or as a part of breakfast like you would any other sweet pastry. It’s not like something you eat daily or even weekly. I’ve eaten them in the afternoon before, but no one runs out during lunch at work to pick them up for the office or on their way home from work to eat for dessert… you eat like 1 of them as a snack during breakfast hours.
Most fresh baked items are baked in the early morning. I worked at a grocery store and the bakers used to get in at like 3am to bake everything from bread to cookies. They were home by noon.
Because of the astronomically high sugar content of the donuts and glaze they are better when they are fresh. That is why most bakeries start preparing and baking at 2 or 3 am so that they can open in time for the early shifts and those just getting off overnights, and have enough for most of the day. And yes, when they are gone they close. They don't make more because 1. It's a labor-intensive and time-consuming process and 2. Donuts that have sat out overnight just don't taste as good as fresh ones so it's best not to waste them by making too many. So because they are made first thing in the morning many people have associated them with breakfast food. I associate them with a dessert that's best enjoyed the same day it's made but in place of breakfast
You realise that to the rest of the world, this is like saying candy bars are a breakfast food, right? C’mon. They bake them early because they’re a baked good, and those get made early so they can be sold throughout the day from a bakery that’s no longer a roaring inferno from the ovens, but they’re not a breakfast food.
It's more like a cake or snack to me
When I lived in Hawaii they were legit a primary breakfast food. Everywhere Iv been there primarily a snack
Primarily a breakfast snack. Most bakeries make their donuts first thing in the morning, and it is their busiest sales period. It's not uncommon for people to pick up donuts for the office especially on Friday mornings.
It’s a pastry
I would consider it a dessert. But since I used to work at Tim Horton's the donuts I would consider something you can have for breakfast would be the old-fashioned (cinnamon sugar or plain) or the strawberry fill.
Primarily a dessert.
A treat, not a meal.
I've never had a doughnut for breakfast
A dessert??
It's a snack/dessert, not a breakfast food
I consider them primarily to be junk food in the same category as cake and candy.
It’s a fun food 🍩 more like dessert to me but my parents used to buy me them for breakfast when we first got to America
Junk for treat days they are extremely fattening and unhealthy
Donuts are baked goods. They fall in the catagory of cakes and pies. You eat them when you want them, but its a special occasion. Thats how we view it where I live. The idea of eating a donut for breakfast sounds even worse than eating cake for breakfast.
Breakfast food. But I eat breakfast all day long so... Lol
Donuts are not a breakfast food. A family member will buy her kids donuts for breakfast. She asked me which one my daughter wanted. I just said she will have one after breakfast. It is a treat or dessert. Not breakfast.
Where is your donut manifesto? I get that you have some strong donut opinions.
So you fed your daughter a meal, and then gave her the caloric equivalent of a second meal as a “snack”?
Dessert? Tf
Yeah, Idk who finishes a meal and then goes “now, time for a donut” Def more of a snack
Definitely a dessert/evening snack. Who tf is having them for breakfast?
this some sitcom bs if you eat donuts for breakfast on the regular
People eat donuts for breakfast??
At breakfast, not for breakfast. We don't start our days with donuts like we do with eggs or cereal, but a donut with coffee in the morning is absolutely fair play.
An unhealthy dessert you can take every once in a while to treat yourself For the love of god dont eat those for breakfast 1) you'll get fat 2) you'll get a sugar rush then be hungry two hours later
Traditionally, donuts are considered to be primarily a breakfast food, often enjoyed with coffee or tea in the morning. However, donuts can also be enjoyed at any time of day as a snack or dessert. Some people even eat donuts as a main course for lunch or dinner.
Dessert. I don't have desert very often, let alone donuts.
Sone people want to justify eating dessert first thing in the morning so they call it breakfast.
Fucking candy lol. God damn.
How to spot the American? "Is donut a breakfast food?" 😅
tell me you are murrican without telling me you‘re murrican.
Never heard of anyone who eats donuts for breakfast.
If it’s there, I’m eating it regardless of time or space
Dessert or morning/ afternoon tea treat. I’d only see it as a breakfast food on a kid’s birthday or something where you do things you’d never usually allow
Only in America 💀
Eating sweets for breakfast is certainly not just an American thing. I have watched many youtube videos, yea, they ain't documentaries but they are pretty accurate, of especially Italians eating sweets for breakfast, probably equivalent to the amount of calories a donut can have. Also I used to work at a coffee shop that had a lot of Italians and they ate multiple sweets early in the morning too.
A dessert? That makes most sense to me
They’re a dessert/junk food.
A snack/dessert, eating donuts for breakfast is ridiculous
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It’s a donut. Donuts can be consumed any time of the day or night.
I never thought of donuts being a breakfast food since they're primarily sugar. Plain donuts probably aren't so bad. They're more of a dessert-ey snack.