If other forms of fried dough don't excite you, then that explains why you don't understand all the fuss about beignets. The cafe au lait at Cafe du Monde may not be the best in the world, and the beignets may not seem to be special, but they do go together very nicely. And the real magic is that their volume of business allows them to serve you both fresh coffee and freshly fried beignets whenever you go there (without having to wait for a certain neon sign to be turned on). Most of us don't have anything like that at home.
