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Foods for Dunking: Best Food and Beverage Combos

2009_03_12-DunkingFoods.jpgOne thing we forgot to mention in our praise of cocoa and toast the other day was how much we enjoy dunking the toast slices into the warm cocoa. So good! That got us thinking about our other favorite food and beverage combinations for dunking...

 
 

Here's what we came up with:

• Cocoa and Toast (of course!)
Milk and Cookies
• Coffee and Biscotti
• Coffee and Doughnuts
Tea and Biscuits (the hard "digestive" kind)
• Wine and Taralli (hard Italian biscuit-cookies)
Vin Santo and Biscotti

Any other favorite combos?

Related: Best (and Worst!) Foods to Eat While Reading

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Comments (22)

French fries and milkshakes.

posted by popcorn.for.dinner on March 13th 2009 at 2:40pm
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agreed - especially wendy's frosties and french fries!

posted by gretchenalexis on March 13th 2009 at 3:00pm
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churros and thick "aztec-style" hot chocolate!

posted by Michelle of Montreal on March 13th 2009 at 3:12pm
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I'm more for cider and doughnuts, forget the coffee!

posted by sally599 on March 13th 2009 at 3:55pm
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Milk and graham crackers has always been a favorite of mine.

I'm a huge dunking fan--I'll dunk any sweet thing in any milk, coffee, or tea.

posted by mandarinmarie on March 13th 2009 at 4:05pm
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croissants and cappuccinos!

posted by eek on March 13th 2009 at 4:20pm
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black tea and anything :-) but especially buttered toasts

posted by plch on March 13th 2009 at 4:38pm
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hot chocolate and croissants (optionally hollowed out and stuffed with jam)!

posted by foodefafa on March 13th 2009 at 6:02pm
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Coffee and Tim Tams.

posted by bkk on March 13th 2009 at 10:00pm
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grade school lunch:
grilled cheese and tomato soup!

posted by fivealive1969 on March 14th 2009 at 12:18am
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Ryvita with butter and marmite, dipped in black coffee (the coffee is undrinkable afterwards, but oh my god is that cracker delicious).

posted by rhinny on March 14th 2009 at 3:43am
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Churros con chocolate caliente... Not the thick, cinnamon-y crap Mexicans make, but the proper [crispy, sugary] churros the Spaniards originated (and the Cubans do so well).

The hot chocolate thickness comes from Maizena - and it's a Spanish (and Cuban) thing, not some locally magical Aztec dust! :)

Also, I'd like to throw in another vote... this time for Cuban 'cafe con leche' and 'pan [cubano] con mantequilla.'

posted by machete on March 14th 2009 at 3:47am
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wow, can we keep the racism to a minimum, we are just talking about food.

posted by kchoun8 on March 14th 2009 at 9:57am
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buttered toast and coffee.

Also there is this chinese fried bread: i don't know what it's called in english, but they are basically long sticks of fried bread that you heat in the oven when you bring them home to make the outsides crisp again. Anyway, these dunked in a glass of very cold soymilk is the best breakfast! They soak up the soymilk but somehow magically stay crispy, mmmm.

posted by kittystockings on March 14th 2009 at 11:14am
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mint iced tea and fresh tomatoes!

posted by christie on March 14th 2009 at 1:07pm
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I definitely agree with the french fries and milkshakes sentiment. It's the best.

posted by Kalinda on March 14th 2009 at 6:55pm
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Definitely hot tea and Tim Tams! Perfect snack :)

posted by jennkarma on March 14th 2009 at 9:29pm
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Wow, machete. The commentary was really unnecessary.

posted by Meximama on March 14th 2009 at 10:13pm
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coffee and toast. i've never heard of this. I am thinking soggy toast.

but any sort of cookie/biscuit in any milky tea, or milk, or possibly milky coffee is good. I actually like those Biscoff cookies they give out on Delta Airlines... they are great dippers.

And the classic as a kid was oreos and milk.

When I went to Italy, I tried biscotti and vin santo for the first time. awesome.

posted by VirginiaWestfield on March 14th 2009 at 10:54pm
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@kchoun8 & @Meximama
I dislike a Mexican variation of a food and it's somehow racist and insulting?
Read my post again in the context of it being a light-hearted reply to Michelle of Montreal.
I even put a smiley in my post which I never do!

You guys are reading into things.

posted by machete on March 15th 2009 at 1:21pm
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Someone mentioned a variation of my favorite, the Chinese 'you tiao' -- deep fried dough strips eaten with hot, unsweetened soy milk.

posted by alp on March 16th 2009 at 12:05pm
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My boyfriend would like me to throw in: coffee and plain bagels!

posted by splim on March 16th 2009 at 7:29pm
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