Do Americans dip their biscuits (aka cookies) in their tea/coffee?!?

Answer 1

Hi Andy B-what part of earth are your from? You can't be getting American TV or magazines or you would know it is an "American Tradition" and part of growing up here to take our Oreo's apart, lick the icing and then dip them in milk. Been doing it forever. There are still ads on TV for Oreo cookies dunked in milk.
My grandmother felt this was uncouth, but she indulged us as long as we were at home. Even gave us a spoon to dip the last crumbs out of the milk.
Traditionally, we also dunk donuts, and I have no idea why. Donuts are fried and your coffee gets an oily scum on it from dunking them. Dunking donuts in hot coffee or tea should only be done over a sink because the donuts are like sponges and drip all over the front of you and they come apart and you have greasy chunks floating around in you cup. But we even have a big corporation named Dunkin' Donuts. They're making some bucks so that means something.
Since Starbucks and the other coffee house have sprung up all over the landscape, Americans are getting trendy with European biscuits and pastries. Funny, because back in the 50's all the "Beat" generation hung out in coffee house, drinking weird coffee creations, smoking bad tobacco (and some funny weed) and reading poetry. It was pretty fun as I recall. Actually, they dunked about anything they ate in the coffee. Also drank some really nasty jug wine and dunked food in that too.
Growing up I recall homemade cookies tended to get hard pretty fast and most women only baked once a week, so we often had warmed milk or milk with tea and dunked the cookies in that to soften them up enough to eat. Warm milk was also poured over slightly stale cake. But that was before all the preservatives came into being. Now baked goods will stay soft into the next decade. Oh, yeah! Remember fortune cookies? You got one at the end of your Chinatown meal. They were often so hard you had to step on them to get the fortune slip out. But when you dunked them in the hot tea the were fabulous. Ah, youth.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It's kind of silly to generalize like that. America is filled with people from many different cultures. One person said that Americans don't drink tea, which is silly. I can think of 3 stores in my city that sell nothing but tea, and that's just off the top of my head. My mom's parents are british, so I dip cookies in my tea, but only certain kinds. Many people also dip biscotti in coffee. I think the most popular thing to dip cookies in here is milk, so if we're going to generalize, Americans dip their cookies in milk.

Answer 4

Americans generally do not eat cookies with tea/coffee because we don't have tea time like in England. People tend to drink coffee in the morning and some do dip biscotti or doughnuts in their coffee then. As a rule, most Americans drink tea iced, not hot. Some drink hot tea, but not nearly as many that drink coffee.

Answer 5

they do dip the cookies most of the time in coffee not on tea. bisqouti is one of the popular biscuit ever want by americans to dip in coffee. you won't miss that cookie wherever coffee parlor you are.

Answer 6

No We dip our cookies in milk
We dip donuts in coffee

We usually put lemons in our tea

We dip our biscuits in gravy

Answer 7

I'm American and I don't, but I'm sure there are plenty who do (as long as the cookie is able to withstand the liquid without breaking apart). I like to dip my Pecan Sandies (shortbread cookies) into my hot chocolate. Also, I like to dip them in plain cold milk. Another cookie that I think is dippable are ginger snaps.

Answer 8

one american did this back in the 60's somewhere in kentucky, he is the only recorded american to have done this. Someone claimed to have dipped a cookie in their tea in new york in the late 90's but no proof was recorded so the claim is dismissed.

Answer 9

No We dip our cookies in milk
We dip donuts in coffee

Answer 10

Nope they don’t do it, but tell you the truth the baking standard is very poor here, in cakes only cheese cakes are good, the cookies are awful. I like the way BRITISH serve tea nicely, I love British baking and buy only British books to learn baking.