What Is The Best Kind of Bagel?

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There is a correct answer. Now let's hear it

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

new answers about bagels

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

smoked salmon, duh

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Home-made. Poppy seed. Toasted. Cream cheese. Black pepper.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinamon bagels with loads of butter

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

why of course it would be the EVERYTHING bagel!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I like plain bagels toasted with plain cream cheese, on the side so there's not too much of it.

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Blueberry, obviously.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

lightly toasted everything bagel -- or just a plain but one of those really chewy ones

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

CINNAMON RAISIN BAGELS RULE YOU ALL FOOLS.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

these answers are yummy, yet incorrect

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Sesame bagel, all warm and chewy straight out of the oven. Lox, butter and lettuce.
mmmmmmmmm.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

pumpernickel!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Poppyseed!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

multi-grain, toasted with butter

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot. Flavor matters not. Freshness is the prime indicator of bagel goodness.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Turkey, mayonnaise, poppy seed.
Roast beef, lettuce, gouda, mustard, sesame.
Nutella, butter.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

cinnamon raisin is good, but only with butter. yum.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

pumpernickel means fartgoblin. I think that means I lose.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

a free bagel, pref.w/free (fresh) coffee

finagel a bagel YUM

― kephm, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The best kinda bagel: I bet it has weed in it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i once made a bagel out of used juicy fruits. it was chewy.

― kephm, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinnamon and raisin is everything.

― Alex K (Alex K), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i love salt bagels with cream cheese on it and a pickle on the side...do these exist anywhere in london? haven't seen any.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OH YES! IXXY's bagels do salt beef, it's their speciality. Once I had a rubbish bagel from them, which is enough to put you off when they are so expensive. I only know of em at Euston and King's X station

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette wins! salt bagels 0\/\/|\|Z0rrrrrrrrr

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette is quite right indeed, thanks for reminding me of it! Salt bagels = the best pretzels ever, more pretzel than pretzel.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one that you've stolen from someone else...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

evil + tasty = best kind of bagel

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought the everything bagel was a little obscene.

But obviously the best kind of bagel is a piping hot one from the bakery downstairs.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

No way, Nickalicious was right - everything bagel. It has salt, PLUS garlic, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, and all sorts of other crap.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Goyish Tendencies in Contemporary Bagel Design - C/D?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Alang, Ixxy's are a train station only franchise. They do lovely peanut butter and jam ones too, which aren't that expensive (well, they are really but less so than some places )

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

But everything bagels stink!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

So do you, but I love you anyways.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything bagels toasted with butter rule the hizzoush. Especially if the shop in question has jalapeno bagels.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The only downfall of the everything bagel is the having to clean the everything from the bottom of the toaster later. Other than that, 'tis sheer bagel perfection.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not my fault we don't have hot water!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the one i am eating right now

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

2-1 I know what store Jess got that from, them are some OK bagels all right

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Salt bagels are the correct answer. Salt bagels, hot and fresh, from H&H Bagels in NYC are the correct answer in its totality. But even if that isn't an option, geographically, salt bagels are the correct bagels.

I have written a song about salt bagels. To write a song about any other kind of bagel would be foolish.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

cinnamon raisin hands down! i am the CINNA-MAN!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Let There Be Bagels on Long Island vs. All Villains Ever In the History of the World FITE!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Better than bagels: biyalis from Kossar's it it? . Pick up pickels around the corner and you're set. Is Gus's Pickles gone now? I got pickles from the Pickle Guys.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

In general, sesame. Most bagels out here are pretty so-so or worse. However, there is a place in town that makes a truly delicious item that I can not deny.

FRENCH TOAST BAGEL. Baked w/ a small amount of nutmeg and sugar on top of it. Fresh, hot, tough on the outside, chewy inside. New York Bagels in Lakewood CO.

Normally any flavored bagel (blueberry? CHOCO-CHIP??) should get gonged. But these french toast bagels are frequently breakfast AND dessert, bookending my day.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the egg bagel best. I hate cinnamon and raisin.

Most goyish bagel ever : Ham, butter, and coleslaw on a bagel.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

slutsky is right. montreal makes the best bagels, for real. really.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Follow up. I like salt bagels. They gotta be fresh though, or they start to like, sweat or something. You can't put em in a bag even long enough to bring to work. Is the salt just hydrophilic? Why do salt bagels sweat?

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Because they're that fucking sexy.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

!!! I have never seen this sweat of what you people speak. However, I tend to stuff entire bagels into my face without even waiting to finish putting on cream cheese. I am like Cookie Monster, but for bagels. Bagel Monster. So I don't wait long enough to watch them get all hott and sweaty.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I am like Cookie Monster, but for bagels

poetry

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Leave a salt bagel in a bag for a while and the salt will, like, turn into sweat and leave your bagel all yucky. But yes, obviously the better plan is to wolf down all the available bagels in the larder/neighborhood.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

toasted poppyseed, cream cheese, two slices of tomato.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

H&H of course

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Pizza bagels!

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ess-A-Bagel is an acceptable answer as well, although it marks you as a bit willful.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Montreal bagels are the best. Period. The better question is St. Viateur vs. Fairmount...take your pick...

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's generally agreed that Fairmount are superior no? Though I live right up from St-Viateur, so that's where I get mine (so I don't have to walk three blocks).

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but Fairmount's all fancy-like--they stock the aforementioned "Everything" bagel. Blech. St. Viateur seems more "real" or something.

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean more "street."

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil wins

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

toasted poppyseed with cream cheese is good yes, i am a sucker for olives with anything though

and where to eat it? i forget name, but some place on corner in l.e.s, i think maybe on clinton?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yay, i win! this is so exciting, i don't remember the last time i won anything...J0hn Darn1elle,i hope the prize is a big bag full of salt bagels sent to my work. (maybe with those toxic packets that come in shoes to keep the salt from getting mushy?)

now i'll spend the rest of the day dreaming of delicious bagels...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The best kinds are salt, onion, and everything. Always with plain cream cheese, never toasted.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one that is spelt Beigel.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, what's the best Brueghel?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the everything brueghel!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

WHO IS THE BEST KING OF BAGEL?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Bagel Boy on Fulton St is my troo leej

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Clinton St. = Lotus Cafe. But that is New School. Next time we take it to the Old School for Grand St. & Norfolk.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

lotus is the one we went to? i like it. but i prepare self for grand and norfolk:)

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Bagel Boy on Fulton St

Manhattan or Brooklyn? if former, where?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the latter - just on the other side of Flatbush from Fulton Mall, and they always give you 1/2 again of whatever you ordered, for free!! Dekalb Ave stop on the N R and Q

hey gareth, "I'll Be Missin You"!@!111

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

Everything bagel toasted with herb and garlic cream cheese is the best

― Phyllis, Sunday, 23 May 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

oh yum

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ts: bagels vs. monotheism as the jews' greatest contribution to civilization

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I vote for bagels, because at least then you have a choice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

na you have a mac right? could i bug you to copy me some software?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a powerbook but it pretty much just has the basic software that came with it and I'm not sure how to copy software on the mac.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

the best kind of bagel is the one you get on sunday morning when they're hot and fresh and flying off the shelves of the bagel store.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Poppyseed, so encrusted that you'll fail a drug test, toasted with scallion cream cheese, bacon and a slice of tomato.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Montreal wood-fired sesame seed bagel, toasted, with cream cheese.

Close thread.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

so encrusted that you'll fail a drug test

beth parker is my linguistic hero.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

any amount of poppy seeds will make you fail a drug test!

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

blueberry w/ sugar + cream cheese

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

garlic. where the garlic bits are toasted & crunchy.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

toasted everything bagel, scooped out, tofu cream cheese, tomato, black pepper.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

This thread makes me glad I live 2 blocks from the Mtl bagels Jay describes! (When they're hot you don't even need cream cheese, I'm telling you, straight up, no chaser.) But this thread also makes me sad b/c I just ate a boring breakfast.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

from the top down:

fresh ground black pepper
smoked salmon
baby spinach,
thinly sliced red onion
cream cheese,
a toasted half of a plain bagel

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

i think it may be time to go check out the new bagel place near my house on the way to the banky wanky.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I just ate a boring breakfast. Who needs rebirthing? REBREAKFASTING will cure the injured psyche.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

suddenly bulimia makes sense

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Breakfast for lunch and dinner is a common occurance in my life, esp with all the good breakfast choices in the world: bagels, pancakes, french toast, crepes, fried-egg sandwiches, etc. THREEBREAKFASTING!
ooh er, xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

since this thread began I have tried those storied Montreal bagels that you get at a place that's open round-the-clock and the pumpernickel one was quite mmmmmmmmmmmm

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Lack of Montreal Bagels: reason # 836,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, to feel deprived, living on CRAZY ISLAND.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

everything with tofu cream cheese is the best. the place around the corner from my apartment makes the greatest bagels in new york city, FACT.

― maura (maura), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

DAREST TOFU CREAM CHEESE

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

nutrament you were probably right downstairs from my apartment! WHOOAOAOOAOAOAOA

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

salt! Piled thick with cream cheese. Yum!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating ciabatta toast with butter right now.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 9 October 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

so is tofu cream cheese really all that? i've never tried it. where would you rate the taste on a scale ranging from "tofu" to "cream cheese"?

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

s1ocki we may even have met earlier that night!

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I want a bagel.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Garlic or onion with cream cheese, tomatoes, red onions, capers and smoked salmon. AND IT HAS TO BE BOILED! Fuck this steamed shit.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

we may have?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

This is SO un-classic bagel that no one is going to agree with me but in the Midwest there's this cheese bagel thing going on. It involves large amounts of sharp cheddar or grated hard cheese baked into the top (and possibly throughout), sometimes with various savory herb combinations, and when you toast 'em the aroma wafts through the house and carries me by the nose to the source of that incredible yumminess. (NB NOT to be confused with the Starbucks versions that I've seen recently which are all bready and unchewy and rudely flaut the laws of bageldom.)

In NY, I brake for sesame + lox/cream cheese/tomato.

― Laurel, Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

St. Viateur Poppy-seed bagel with Arahova tzaziki!

Despite also hearing numerous testimonies in support of this Fairmount bagels, I remain a loyal supporter of the ex-cons and ne'erdowells who toil just below s1ocki's apartment.

Has anyone tried the matzoh?

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

There's a store with a great deli I get to once in a while. They make lunch sandwiches using onion bagels. Don't get all excited though. It sounds better than it actually is.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

the matzoh ain't really matzoh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

You guys are making me want a bagel so fucking badly. I hate you all.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

In the dark ages of my University education, while working for a company that was going BK, the co-workers and I sat around and tried to think of ways to make some $$ after this job failed (contract obligations forced us to be at the actual office until a certain date in teh closure of the place). I came up with and followed thru on, a bagel delivery service it started out as a subscription service to pvt homes, then quickly grew to deliveries to restaurants who thought that the bagel place I purchased from had the best bagels in Los Angeles. (True) but at the time the place didn’t deliver, but I did. Made a boatload of dough (no pun intended). Sometimes I miss it.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

S.T.R.A.O.B.T.S.
St.Viateur Totally Rules All Other Bagels Totally Suck.

(haha, I just thought that was funny; I am not really like that. About bagels. But haha also because I'm going there tomorrow morning for hott sesame bagel action. I'm also really glad this thread was started by J0hn Darn1elle even though, for whatever reason, the Golden Boy Peanuts song has been in my head all day because of it.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm a Fairmounter, through and through. Miss 'em like you wouldn't believe.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Definitely the one I'm eating now is in contention:

Seeded bun (poppy & sesame)
Cream cheese
Smoked salmon
Cucumber
Lettuce
Onion
Capers

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

i like the egg bagel

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

i swear by bacon and sausage on toasted poppyseed with lashings of ketchup.

but the best bagel of all is of course http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/images/snoopy_header_left_bottom1.gif

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

FUCKSTICKS

the best bagel of all is of course http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/images/meet_snoopy_big.gif

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

i swear by bacon and sausage on toasted poppyseed with lashings of ketchup.

that is the most goyische thing ever, possibly.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to have to go and buy a bagel right now.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

lauren, if goyische is yiddish for 'tasty' then i agree!!!

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Posin's deli on Georgia Avenue NW, Washington DC, gone now, used to have the best bagels. The real thing—small and dense and soulful—the humble Model-T ancestor to the pumped-up SUV of today's bagels.
Also, don't forget the wonderfulness of BIALYS!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

BAGEL WARS. (Internal LA version, not MTL vs. NYC)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

i wanted to revive this a while back after trying to eat two salt bagels in a day and feeling like i'd been punched in the mouth. i can not handle the salt bagel. ess-a-bagel pumpernickel raisin is my topical #1. eating their cream cheese/tofu variations is like dunking your bagel in peanut butter ice cream (in a good way and a bad way).

― schlump, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

i love ess-a-bagel, but last time i was there i wanted to murder the 3 girls ahead of me in line. they talked the entire time about how bad bagels were for you, and how they weren't going to eat dinner to make up for the sin of bagel-eating they were about to commit. then they held up the line by asking the counter guy to "scoop out" the inside of their bagels and complaining about how much butter or cream cheese he'd put on. if you feel that way, why bother going to a place that's renowned for making some of the fattest bagels in the city?

― lauren, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe it was a scene from Heathers 2.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

scooping out a bagel seems a common way to remedy the too-big-for-your-mouth-too-messy-for-your-hands dilemma of involving yourself in the cream cheese debacle at ess-a-bagel. i do not know why anyone would do that to a bagel. yesterday my pumpernickel raisin was dripping so much butter that i could practically see through my hand, but they're so delicious.

i work in midtown so am going to the one on 51st/3rd. i still haven't made it to any of the aforementioned jewish places; they all seem to be right on the rivers. where else is good?

whole foods blueberry bagel for wildcard storebought entry, too.

― schlump, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

The best kind is big-ass:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_txOWjhFJODM/SPSl8y943NI/AAAAAAAAAdM/cJqc83GnlTA/s320/bagel98.gif

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

stale before it's halfway gone.

― ian, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

Not if you share.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

The best bagel is the everything (or "mish mosh") bagel, and the second best bagel is the sesame bagel.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)

where are you that they call them "mish mosh"? never heard that one before.

― carne asada, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:16 (sixteen years ago)

salt bagel, egg bagel, everything bagel, pumpernickel, whole wheat.

― ian, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

not necc in that order. with tomato only if tomato is in season, reg cream cheese, lox, red onion, fresh ground pepper plz.

― ian, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

fuckin l.a. bagels

― Then, it dawned on me: "I HAVE BEEN PLAYED!" (omar little), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

tomatoes on bagels is hot right now

― carne asada, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)

LA bagels do not get it done like NY bagels. Just sayin'.

― I got it. I'm gone. (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)

Nobody is disputing that. Nobody sane, at least.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)

i usually go for salt, garlic, or onion bagels.

i've seen "mish mosh" w/r/t soup -- there's one deli here that makes a "mish mosh" chicken soup with a matzoh ball, noodles, carrots, maybe some other starch and veg.

― billy mumia (get bent), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

where are you that they call them "mish mosh"? never heard that one before.

Chicargo, but only in two places (one of which is now a sports bar ;_;) so I don't think it's really a thing here.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.hermanisnotdead.com/tshirts/strip1/tshirt3_07.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:25 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.ahajokes.com/cartoon/bagel1.gif

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

xp They were both Jewish delis (one of which has a sign that says, "One of only a few Jewish delis in Chicago!") so given that and GB's soup sighting, maybe it's Yiddish/Yiddish-derivative.

― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/warehouse/storage2/2008-w49/img.433577_t.jpg

― billy mumia (get bent), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:28 (sixteen years ago)

If only high quality were a universal bagel trait, then the correct answer would be "the bagel I am eating". Sadly, the universe is not such a perfect paradise as that... yet.

― Aimless, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T_Gn4vb7qXg/ScI0aF4g85I/AAAAAAAAAIA/8FgVXEU3u_M/s400/moose-bagel.png

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

maybe it's Yiddish/Yiddish-derivative.

oh, it definitely is... it's a phrase my family would throw around sometimes when speaking yinglish. it just means "a bunch of ingredients thrown together indiscriminately."

― billy mumia (get bent), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

Fashionable:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Rsl_LePBeKE/RgyhDtSsQkI/AAAAAAAAADk/uLc4RVX521w/s400/Bagel+Hat,+Spain.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

bjork, there's something different about you...

― billy mumia (get bent), Monday, 13 July 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Everything Bagel is the Best Kind of Bagel

― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 06:41 (fifteen years ago)

man, i want a bagel

― sleepingbag, Thursday, 30 September 2010 07:23 (fifteen years ago)

if someone brought me a bagel right now it would be the Best Kind of Bagel

― sleepingbag, Thursday, 30 September 2010 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

the best bagel is plain and fresh and warm. should be smallish, but quite tall. in shape like a fist. a perforated fist. so dense and chewy that it's something of a chore to eat.

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:45 (fifteen years ago)

oh god i miss bagels

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

salt is still the best but pumpernickel with butter yes plain fresh butter is giving it a run for its money these days

― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:48 (fifteen years ago)

there used to be a place in providence r.i. that had spinach bagels - spinach had been added to the dough - and i'd order one of those with butter, a slice of tomato and a slice of cheese, practically every morning

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

salt is way too difficult. always have to brush off 2/3 of those palate grinders. but yeah, pumpernickel and butter (bagel or not) are oddly, amazingly agreeable.

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Thursday, 30 September 2010 09:51 (fifteen years ago)

if you can find it, pumpernickel raisin > pumpernickel, for the same reason that some kinda topping makes a bagel > plain bagel.

sesame bagels always surprise me by having their own (light & nutty) identity, rather than just being an inferior variety compared to poppyseed or everything.

― FORTIFIED STEAMED VEGETABLE BOWL (schlump), Thursday, 30 September 2010 13:03 (fifteen years ago)

man i don't live near good bagels anymore and it sucks

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 September 2010 13:19 (fifteen years ago)

has tuomas weighed in here as yet?

― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 13:22 (fifteen years ago)

man i don't live near good bagels anymore and it sucks

^^^

don't think i'm on the thread above because i was too busy touring bagelries to find pumpkin bagels. i just get fourpacks of supermarket onion bagels now and be done with it, then post on the internet.

― FORTIFIED STEAMED VEGETABLE BOWL (schlump), Thursday, 30 September 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

soo i have a new bagel

― surm, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

The best kind of bagel is the one you are eating.

― Mark G, Thursday, 11 August 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

Jalapeno please

― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Thursday, 11 August 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I am still in search of the cinnamon-raisin-everything bagel which I want so so bad.

― funky divacups (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:57 (thirteen years ago)

I have resorted to just buying the two separately and eating halves of each together (not the same)

― funky divacups (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:58 (thirteen years ago)

i am eating a cinnamon raisin bagel, what 'everything' am i missing

― mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:38 (thirteen years ago)

I used to sometimes melt cheddar cheese on a cinnamon raisin bagel and it was kind of gross and good at the same time

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

you always run that risk with melted cheese tbf

― mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

like, the smart part of your brain tells you that the cinnamon doesn't really go with the cheese while the dumb part of your brain is going "MMM FAT SUGAR SALT"

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:44 (thirteen years ago)

smartest part of yr brain stays quiet and lets the other two parts fight it out while you eat the bagel

― mister borges (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:47 (thirteen years ago)

def feels controversial using a cinnamon raisin as a base for other flavours

― schlump, Thursday, 21 March 2013 04:23 (thirteen years ago)

I am going to get whole wheat everything tomorrow.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 21 March 2013 04:58 (thirteen years ago)

everything bagel, heavy on the cream cheese, from katz on 16th & valencia, with a large coffee. this is incontrovertible

bagels with smoked salmon are pretty overrated imho

― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 21 March 2013 05:17 (thirteen years ago)

Warm St-Viateur's bagel + nutella = greatest moment of one life, everyday saturday morning.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 March 2013 05:31 (thirteen years ago)

^ ^ ^ correct answer, with or without nutella.

― Lee626, Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:21 (thirteen years ago)

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