Dunking

I had always thought that dunking ginger nut biscuits into ones' cup of tea was a very English trait. For the English this activity is always done in the confines of ones home for fear of not quite getting the dunking time : biscuit sogginess ratio quite correct and dropping half a disintegrated ginger nut on your neighbours carpet !!. However, I have found that the French are a lot ore adventurous in what they dunk, they are also not at all shy about where they perform this act. The only difference is that the French dunk into coffee.. and they happily dunk bread, biscuits, cake and even camembert into their morning coffee. My neighbour puts her breakfast muesli into her coffee.. it is practical she tells me, only one large cup to wash up !!