Donuts coffee

On the road early this morning, I somehow got to thinking about doughnuts. I'm not sure what started this train of thought, but I was thinking about how doughnuts used to be a fairly regular feature of my life, how common it used to be to bring a box of them to the office or classroom, and how long it had been -- a decade at the very least, probably closer to two -- since I'd had a proper doughnut.

Is that just because I live in Taiwan now, I wondered, or is the decline of the doughnut a worldwide phenomenon? I remembered hearing that Dunkin Donuts is just called Dunkin now and is thought of mainly as a coffee shop. And didn't Tim Hortons also start off as a doughnut shop? It seems that doughnut shops survive only by shifting their focus to coffee.

When I arrived home, my wife asked me to pop back out and buy her a coffee. When I asked which of two nearby coffee shops she would prefer, she said, "What about Donuts? Do they have good coffee?"

Donutes (as it is actually spelled, though everyone pronounces it with a short u) is a coffee shop that also sells various baked goods, though not, as one might expect, doughnuts. My wife had never had their coffee before but randomly decided to try it today.