doughnuts and muffins

An excerpt from the book Faking It by Jennifer Crusie:

Nadine sighed and opened a cupboard, taking down a loaf of whole wheat. "According to Grandma, there are two kinds of men in the world, doughnuts and muffins. Doughnuts are the guys that make you drool," Nadine said, taking a jar of peanut butter from the cupboard.

"They're gorgeous and crispy and covered with chocolate icing and you see one and you have to have it, and if you don't get it, you think about it all day and then you go back for it anyway because it's a doughnut.''

"So doughnuts make you drool," Davy said.

"Right. Whereas muffins just sort of sit there all lumpy, looking alike, no chocolate icing at all. And while muffins may be excellent," Nadine went on, "especially the pineapple-orange ones, they're no doughnuts."

"So doughnuts are good," Davy said, trying to keep up his end of the conversation.

"Well, yeah, for one night," Nadine said, as her toast popped. "But then the next morning, they're not crisp anymore, and the icing is all stuck to the bag, and they have watery stuff all over them, and they're icky and awful. You can't keep a doughnut overnight."

"Ah," Davy said, "but a muffin--"

"Is actually better the next day," Nadine finished. "Muffins are for the long haul and they always taste good. They don't have that oh-my-God-I-have-to-have-that thing that the doughnuts have going for them, but you still want them the next morning."