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Search and Destroy the grebts of bready products!
What kind? What on them?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I know we've done at least one thread on this, surely...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, there was some long guessing-game typa thread that ended in the everything bagel being pronounced the king of bagels, a sentiment I heartily disagree with

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Absolute tops: Salt bagels with jalapeno cream cheese.

Also grebbit: Sesame bagels, onion bagels, garlic bagels, cheese bagels, poppy seed bagels, and many (but not all) kinds of everything bagels. Horseradish cream cheese, scallion cream cheese, garlic and herb cream cheese, or cream cheese and lox -- but not lox chopped up in cream cheese (good in theory, I've just never experienced its goodness in practice).

Not My Bagel: sweet bagels in general (the bakery out here, which is the St Louis Bread Company elsewhere and I forget what here, makes all their bagels very sweet, nearly as sweet as danishes), the various fruit danishes, fruit cream cheeses, etc. The whole joy of the bagel is having something savory for breakfast that's still bready! Otherwise just get a donut/danish/etc.

Destroy: frozen bagels (although I'm sure they're better than when I was a kid), grocery store bagels that are just kaiser rolls shaped like bagels, and unfortunately, my homemade bagels, which are ugly and labor-intensive and not terribly tasty and go stale in about six hours.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

sweet bagels are nasty!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinnamon raisin bagels roxx, u r all gay.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Bagels can be plain, or sesame, or poppy seed, but NOTHING ELSE!!

― Bagel Rockist (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The best bagel is a sesame bagel with cream cheese, thinly-sliced cucumber, black pepper, and lemon juice.

*drool*

― Bagelist (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam, don't forget salt. Salt bagels are also among the holy. And they are the best. From H&H. Fresh. Warm. Divine.

I don't think I've ever had a good bagel outside of NYC, however.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I never met a bagel I didn't like except for this one misguided, whole wheat deal that was like eating mulch.

Oh yeah, Goldstein's bagels rule!

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You need to go to North or East London, Chris. It's a different kind of "good", but one I'm sure anyone can appreciate.

― Boogie Woogie Bagel Boy, 1281 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinnamon raisin bagels roxx, u r all gay.

(with a small shmear of plain "lite" cream cheese)

― Priscilla Beaulieu Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know the story of the origin of the bagel? I don't, but I'm sure it is fascinating.

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Bagel (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a pumpkin bagel this morning at a drive-through coffee bar in Sunset Beach. The pumpkin taste was great, but the bagel itself was inferior. I've never had a good bagel outside of NYC either.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

shmear is a funny word. I hadn't heard that until I visited NYC.

― The Archangel Bagriel (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, finally someone comes on this thread and is right. Cinnamon raisin with some cream cheese, you people are all unholy to deny this.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure I've ever had a cinnamon raisin bagel, but it's probably better than the just-plain-weird sweet bagels like honey-frosted-corn-flake-surprise ("surprise, there are corn flakes in your damn bagel") and vanilla-blueberry-walnut. And I'm usually a defender of weird foods (witness my love of the McGriddle!)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinnamon raisin must have butter, and lots of it. Nothing else! Mentalists.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

OK where the hell are you finding honey frosted corn flake bagels??

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I honest to God did not make that up. That was either here or on the road trip here, I forget which. It was this ... sweet honey bagel thing ... rolled in sweetened corn flakes. It looked like some kind of spiky health food porcupine donut.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm such a bagel rockist.

and I hereby present the origin of the bagel: they were invented by a Polish baker as a gift to the king, who was a riding fanatic.

the shape was supposed to resemble a saddle. or whatever you call those things that go around the horse and you sit on them. I know it's sketchy.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

history of mtl's beloved fairmount bagels can be found here:

http://english.montrealplus.ca/infosite/477826/3.html

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

tasting a piece of history c/d?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had what I assume are bagels possibly close to as-good-as-NYC ones here, as I live in a very Jewish 'hood. They make proper jewish boiled bagels, and they are delicious - moist and heavy and they toast up very nicely with cream cheese and pesto on top, yes thankyou.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

cinnamon and raisin bagels = yuck

I like egg bagels best.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

This past Saturday morning, I had a "taralli" bagel from Greg's Bagels, toasted, with a schmear of cream cheese, topped by moist and meaty chunks of Wolfhead custom hot-smoked salmon from Canada's frigid North. Hard to imagine it getting much better than that.

Sweet bagels are fine with me, though I hardly ever eat 'em, and almost never with cream cheese when I do. That said, I have never understood chocolate in bagels--white, dark, bittersweet, whatever. It seems unnatural somehow.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eww I've never even heard of that! GOYIM!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Goyishe alchemy, this chocolate bagel nonsense.

― Tower Of bagel (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If you eat a bologna and Miracle Whip sandwich on a chocolate bagel, your foreskin will grow back.

Even if you're a girl.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

haha what about ham and butter on a bagel?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You turn into Pat Boone!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops!

― pat b (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I love everything

(also blueberry with strawberry cream cheese)

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i kill for bagels with veggie spread

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You make the bagels with meaty spread do their own killin, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-but is it bagel or beigel???

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

BEIGEL

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the beigel/bagel fite begins!!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Beigels are lifeless, nasty, horrid, tough BEIGE things, hence why they are called BEIGEls. Bagels are the most perfect breadform every invented. And Bagels On The Square in Greenwich Village is the best place in the world to get them!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

What Is The Best Kind of Bagel?
Taking sides: The Bagel Factory vs Ixxys vs Delimento

The search function is rather spiffy these days.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

loose onion bagels from Sainsbury's are pretty fabby, i wish i had one right now smeared with that cheese n' spring onion spread they do, and pastrami, with english mustard

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

No question, no question, no question, no question

Ess-a-Bagel established in 1976 on 21st Street and 1st Avenue

http://www.ess-a-bagel.com/

― Skottie, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Never mind Bagels, what about Pretzels?
Where cab I get me a nice pretzel encrusted with pumpkin seeds in Cardiff?

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ess-a-bagel is okay. my favorite is kossar's on grand and essex. recipe for a great sunday: pick up cream cheese, smoked fish, dried fruit, etc, at russ and daughters on houston and orchard. walk down to essex and over to kossar's for bagels and onion disks. go sit in the park at grand and chrystie. eat. sit around.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite is NOT Sainsbury's bagels, as they're not very nice. But I can't find aything better without putting effort in. Sigh. Though if anyone can tell me where to look in Soho for delicious bagels I'll be very pleased.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I am eating a cinammon raisin bagel covered in cream cheese right now. What do you all have the say about that, you bagel rockists?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The everything bagel is an abomination in the eyes of God.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll deal with your bagel deviance later Allyzay - um, the Sainsbury's bagels ARE nice - as long as they're loose and you get them early enough in the day. the ones in packs suck. maybe i'm thinking of Tesco's tho.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

so Mark are you working in Soho now?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

everything bagels are nowhere near as bad as blueberry bagels. gah!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell are you going to do about my bagel "deviance"?

― Allzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything bagels are not kosher because they're cooked in their mother's milk

― Skottie, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Blueberry bagels are vile only because blueberry anything is vile. Mixed berry bagels are fantastic, as are CHOCOLATE CHIP BAGELS YUM.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan proves himself none more goy. As for me, I've having an everything bagel right now, hah hah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell are you going to do about my bagel "deviance"?

i was planning to thumb thru your magazines mainly, why?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

where do we stand on lox

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

and more urgently, the caper question

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

where do we stand on lox

Room 12, down the hall and around the corner.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing like the cool oiliness of freshly-sliced lox on my aching tooties

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://static.userland.com/images/marxidad/Tootie.gif

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

that was plural, dan

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://static.userland.com/images/marxidad/Tootie.gif http://static.userland.com/images/marxidad/Tootie.gif

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm working for about a month in Soho, so it's not a proper job or anything. Sigh. And yes, I meant the ones in packs, even though their long life-ness let me down the other day when I found them covered with blue-green mould. Sorry, schmeared with blue-green mould.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i fucked up my joke

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

That's okay, we still love you.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

this is the best christmas ever! sniff

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

What are the names of the bagel places on Brick Lane? There's the 24-hr one, but a little birdie told me that it's actually the other one that has the best bagels in London. Haha "best bagels in London" hahahahahaha anyway. I do want to see what is meant by this phrase.

Bagel Boy in Brooklyn, on Fulton Street just on the other side of Flatbush from Fulton Mall. THE BEST. It looks like something died in there, but they always give you half again free and they were the FLATTEST, LARGEST, DENSEST bagels I've ever eaten. "And they DON'T serve cinnamon raisin."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Columbia Bagels, Tal Bagels
Destroy: Pick-a-Bagel, Absolute Bagels

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

how would anyone know where the best bagels in London are. have they been to all bagel sellers in the capital?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The best bagels in London (that I've had at any rate) are not those nasty Beige things on Brick Lane, but came from St. John's Wood. I don't know what shop, though, unfortunately - my old boss got them for me as a present when I was feeling homesick!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Where is the love for lox though?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

If you can get good smoked fish (such as at Greg's Bagels, just a few blocks from my house, thank God), there's nothing better. Food service lox is nasty, though. With the good stuff you don't really need onions, capers, etc.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

a big, screaming yes to lox.
tracer, i think both beigel shops on brick lane are open 24hrs? people tell me that the one closer to old street is better, so that's all i've tried. acceptable lox and corned - or "salt" - beef, but the beigels are just like little chewy dinner rolls.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, what is a beigel? Is it a bialy?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Schmears, flavors...sheer trivia. Either a bagel is SO ABSOLUTELY PIPING HOT IT HURTS YOUR FINGERS TO TOUCH IT or it is not worth a damn.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

beigel is the crazy British spelling of bagel

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: beigel vs beagle

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Snoopy would not taste good toasted, split in half and stuffed with cream cheese.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

lox must be very thinly-sliced for me to get into it, and also it must involve sliced raw onions (possibly red onions), cream cheese, salt aplenty and fresh ground pepper

and then we'll talk.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yay red onions, nay cream cheese. the fish & dairy combo bugs me. how about some thinly sliced tomato?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I was gonna say! but really no cream cheese? my brother does that, I find it weird

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i always used to eat lox with cream cheese because it came that way, but then when i tried it without i liked it much better. i like as much pure unadulterated salmon taste as possible, and for me the cc undercuts it while onion or tomato plays it up.
god, i think i would have smoked fish three meals a day if i didn't care about malnutrition.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

see thing is I think I like the salmon taste cut a little--too intense and I'd get skeezed out

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought some bagles today at Bagel Boy, not at my normal place Bergen Bagels on Myrtle, because Tracer Hand suggested and I was in the general area (went for a huge walk this afternoon). I hope they're as good. I prefer to eat bagels with tofutti imitation cream cheese and sliced tomatoes (although lox is good too).

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder if creme fraiche would be any good on a bagel. I like it with smoked salmon ... (I love capers but don't like them with smoked salmon, for some reason; raw onion tastes funny to me unless it's blanched. My usual smoked salmon accompaniments: creme fraiche and fresh dill, if anything.)

Or would I totally go to food hell for that? Bagels are one of the few things where I think experimentation should be frowned upon.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, save that experimentation shit for college.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the cafeteria at my college offered lots of bagels with every meal. I didn't "experiment" with them, but you never know, maybe somebody else did, it was a weird school.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Whenever I see a bagel I just want to put my ASS on it"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a dude who stuck a banana up his butt as part of a "performance art piece," of course.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

was that dude perhaps you, sir?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Karen Finley?

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ok the worst bagels in London are definitely at Manhattan Cafe, City Road, Old St.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil you are making me seriously homesick!! r they good??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

um I went out to eat for breakfast today, so I haven't had one yet! They look promising though.

s1utsky it was most emphatically not me with the banana.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil your bagel sloth disgusts me. When you finally eat one, just try to imagine it a day fresher, right!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never been too hungry to turn down a quality bagel.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahem. Too "full".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

look there's always the possibility I'll eat one later! I buy like 6 at a time, y'know, so I can have them around the house and don't have to go outside so I can continue my Boo Radley-esque ways.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha "Boo Radley-esque ways" !!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

When you got six did they give you three more for free?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

what?!? I'm supposed to get free ones? No they didn't do that. Now I am sad.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

use your scene power to destroy them.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with the Ally contingent on the cinnamon raisin bagels. Mmm!

Also, I like my bagels just like I like my men: hot, a little crunchy, and soft in the middle.

Usually, I go for the plain bagels and plain cream cheese. There, I said it.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

NA RUN FOR COVER

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

But maybe NA bakes naturally.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Boy, am I sorry I missed this thread.

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 31 October 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Why, what happened?

hstencil, next time you have to just stand there purposefully, like a bellhop waiting for a tip.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

not gonna be a next time! Seriously, these are okay bagels, but not as good as the ones from Bergen Bagels, which is closer to my house anyway.

― hstencil, Friday, 31 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Philistine.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever man!

― hstencil, Friday, 31 October 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude I'm just kidding!! I didn't even know there was a Bergen Bagels on Myrtle!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 31 October 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah there is! They make my favorite bagels in NYC.

― hstencil, Friday, 31 October 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i just bought a bagel because of this thread

damn you ilx!!

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay late night bagels for Geeta!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 November 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Arrgh, I'm about 10 posts into this thread & I'm dying for a real bagel. It's all the fault of this thread if I buy a plane ticket to NYC for a bagel tomorrow.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I have cinnamon raisin bagels in my fridge. I am so happy to have just realized that.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

There are no good bagels within about 2,000 miles of the Space Needle. Someone needs to invent a way to mail really fresh bagels to the west coast- they'd make a killing.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 2 November 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

in the early 70s my uncle spent some time running H&H bagels from NYC down to DC for profit

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 2 November 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.islandnet.com/~lbulmer/cole1.jpg

i LOVE Baegels!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 2 November 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst bagels I ever had were in New York City (as part of the hotel's free "continental breakfast," a sobering illustration that you do indeed get what you pay for). I do not deny the delights of a toasted plain bagel with a schmear, but my suburban white girl self actually likes the blueberry bagels (untoasted, with cream cheese).

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 2 November 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, my wife is Jewish and grew up in NYC so she's the expert, I guess. We HAVE a Jewish section in a suburb of Cleveland that probably make bagels closer to the Big Apple but we get ours, usually, from a franchise, Brueggers (sp?). At first, we mocked them a bit (they aren't as dense as the NY variety). Once we accepted them for what they are/were, they became a suitable sub. I prefer garlic, onion or everything....spread with a rather thick layer of the store's bacon scallion cream cheese and then cut perpendicular and eaten like a sandwich. This has become my breakfast of choice with a cup of hazelnut coffee...

― ed dill (eddill), Sunday, 2 November 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had those Brick Lane bagels, they're highly overrated. And instant coffee, WTF?

Its the time of year for pumpkin flavored cream cheese which is something I really wish they made all year round.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 2 November 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a Breuggers right down the road from my dorm in college, so I ate there quite a bit- they're not great, but they make better bagels than most chains.

Right now I'm eating a plain bagel (or Seattle imitation) with cream cheese & lox- while I was at the store, I noticed that they serve PESTO bagels. And the couple behind me ordered 4 of those to go. Interesting.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 2 November 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

bruegger's, ack. if you're in cleveland, go to broadway bagels on mayfield road in mayfield heights/lyndhurst.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 3 November 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I'm familiar with Broadway Bagels and some others in the area.....too far for us to go to regularly, although I guess we could buy a bag full and freeze them....

Again, Bruegger's is ok as chain bagels go. If there is a problem with them, it is more density than taste. The ones I CAN'T seem to stomach are the supermarket ones.....they are usually deadly.

― ed dill (eddill), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

pesto bagels are the f'in bomb - w/butter and slice of tomato and cheese ohmigod!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite East Side Cle bagel place was Better Bagels (on Taylor, N of Cedar). Used to make a crosstown bagel run every couple weeks or so. Now that the chains have proliferated I make do with Einstein's.

I think there was a Broadway Bagels on Pearl in Parma Hts. that died a pretty quick death a few years ago.

― Jeff Wright, Monday, 3 November 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

nowhere down the north end of City Road seems to do bagels. idiots. where am i find a hot puffy lightly toasted savoury snacklet filled with chessy goodness in the Old Street area?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Pumpkin flavoured CREAM CHEESE?! Good grief I'll have to visit the Bagel Factory at this rate. OR THE ASYLUM whichever comes first.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

There are no bagels in Singapore. Care package, anyone?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The asylum is on the left just AFTER the Bagel Factory, Sarah. Their bagels aren't so good anyway: they're full of nuts!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to know where I can find this "pumpking cream cheese"! I love pumpkings and the oddest thing they can make pumpking flavoured the better. Is there pumpking coffee anywhere yet?

I mite start a PUMPKIN THREAD!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I had some Brick Lane Bagels this weekend and they were um interesting! They would make excellent stress toys I think!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 November 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Help!

I am working on a project about the bagel, and I need some research material! Links, facts, funny stories, anything!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a chocolate chip bagel in the batch we had at brunch today. I didn't dare try it.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't exaggerate how proud of you I am.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me what you need to know!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Where did you hear that story about the polish king?
Tell me about how bagels got to where they are today.
Perhaps some facts on bagel consumption.
What is the Hebrew blessing for a bagel? Is it the same as the one for bread?
Where will the bagel be in thirty years time?
Are there any films, books, music, or artworks about bagels?
How many different spellings/pronounciations of the word "bagel" are there?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 November 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Call some bagel places: ask them these questions!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll do that!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

re:New Yorkers talking trash on London bagels - it hurts because I know they're right!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a book called the bialy eaters that might be helpful.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 November 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I never thought I'd say this, but...I think I'm all bagelled out. As I ate a buttered sesame bagel this lunchtime, I suddenly got the sensation that I was becoming a giant bagel with a face on it. And I just...stopped, and suddenly felt totally nauseous.

Have I eaten my last bagel, I wonder?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, you just had a bad bagel moment! Blame the individual bagel, not bagel-prime! Stop with the crazy talk!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

send me real bagels kthxbye

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep's years of manning the phones at the Bagel Helpline come in handy once again.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna be having flashbacks for a decade, methinks.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on a bagelatical myself - but I will surely return to my friends - with lox - tomorrow morning.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep's years of manning the phones at the Bagel Helpline come in handy once again.

I read this as the Bagel Helphine, and wondered if Tep used to work at a fancy French bagelry.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lox with that, Spencer!

sorry

― oops (Oops), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

See, Spencer has the right idea! You don't abandon bagels. You might mix it up with the brioche and the bialy, you might cruise some baguettes, but you come home to the bagels. You like the bagels. The bagels are good.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

send me real bagels kthxbye

if i'm over in may i'll bring a giant sackful. i'll be bagel claus.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god lauren. I'm going to buy a calendar to put on the wall, write this on it, and just keep it turned to May for the next three months.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 27 February 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I try not to eat more than 4 bagels per day. I usually have 3/day. But I'll eat none rather than eat crap awful bagels-- see Einsteins et al. Someday I'll write a poem about how I love them.

If the seeds weren't cooked, I would have a forest of sesame and poppy plants growing in my car.

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i eat a bagel every morning for breakfast. i think about stopping sometimes, and then i cry.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the last really good bagel I had was in Victoria Station of all places. Cheese and spinach. MMMMM. Noahs don't do it for me anymore, every once in a while I get one that has too much baking soda in it or something and it makes me gag. I could get good bagels around my workplace but I'd have to walk more than one block.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

where in new york can i get a good bagel at this hour? i hate you ILE.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's New York! Can't you just harpoon one from your window?

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

oh. right. the harpooning.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 28 February 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I got up early this morning to get bagels, because of this thread, and a bialy for extra credit.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 28 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Everything toasted with lowfat creamcheese!

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

BAGEL CLAUS

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

My husband once made pumpkin bagels using our bread machine. They were FANTASTIC.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

ooooh

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

I have been living off bagels this summer (unsurprisingly). Finally hit H&H again yesterday. It had been a very, very long time. Maybe this weekend I will hit Ess-A-Bagel. The local bagels out here in Queens are not so bad either!

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bagel Boy on Flatbush is still my favourite, if it hasn't been replaced with an "upscale luxury condomunium" yet

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

i mean they're just so fuckin cheap, and sometimes when i eat a bagel with creem cheese i really like forget that i'm on earth, and i feel like the angel in the philadelphia creem cheese commercial. and then i finish the bagel and life sucks again.

lol those are soooo everywhere around my house! and then the arena's on its way! oy

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

i haven't had a bagel in ages and ages

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

"surprise, there are corn flakes in your damn bagel"

― G00blar, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

My family loves bagels...I love Einstein Bros.. Fresh potato bagels? MMMMMMMMMMM

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

oh dear

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Is anyone familiar with Bagels Forever? It's the frozen band I grew up with but they're based here in WI. I've been stopping by the outlet lately b/c they're soooo cheap, like $4/dozen.

On my last Brooklyn trip I stopped by the Bagel Hole a couple of times, loved that place.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Slocki's right, sweet bagels are nasty.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

No, some sweet bagels are great (e.g. Einstein's cranberry)

― Tape Store, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

i live an equidistant 1 block away from both Fairmount and St-Viateur bagels, in montreal. they are open 24 hours. the bagels are always hot. i think i am more partial to st-v but i like very much swinging by fairmount and having a cream-cheese one prepared for me on-site. so i don't know. except that i'm a little bit in heaven.

― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Eistein's jalapeno are delicious

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

to me, einstein's are flavored rolls.

― lauren, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

eistein's

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I remember when a college friend of mine from Staten Island took me to the bagel place near where his folks live. I went to order an everything with butter - my norm - and he goes "No, he'll just have a plain plain."

Upon tasting the plain, plain bagel, I realized that there really are no finer bagels than those made within the Five Buroughs of New York City.

Good Christ, it was heaven.

― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

i like sweet CREAM CHEESE

or cream cheese and preserves

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

And I just got an everything with butter. Thanks, ILX, for making my late morning.

― B.L.A.M., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

mmm that's good

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I also live a black from Fairmount and St-V bagels, but have only been to St-V... is it worth checking out that other one?

― Will M., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

a "black," huh

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

i live above st-v. so i am kind of sick of them. fairmount gets my vote for now.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

it's kind of funny how everyone in montreal lives a block away from each other.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, a black. The o's not even near the a. How did I do that?

Also, does it surprise you that everyone lives within a block of each other? I mean, we're all clearly bagel aficionados... you can't get that kind of bagel love in the Hoch.

― Will M., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Paradise Cafe on 8th ave and 17th in Chelsea is a couple blocks from where I work. They bring in H & H Bagels there, goddamn so good. But I am usually too hungry to wait til the Manhattan end of my ride, so I buy the super cheap ones from the spanish bakery at Grand and Union in W'burg.

My life has pretty much revolved around bagels for years. I cannot abide any kind of seed on it though. It's not even a taste thing-- bad things happen if I eat a bagel covered in them.

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

what bad things??

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Bagel flavor hall of fame:

plain
egg
sesame
poppy

Fancy stuff like asiago or chocolate-chip may seem like a good idea at the time, but doesn't go well with cream cheese/sandwich toppings and usually means you're at a corporate bagel joint anyway.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

PUMPERNICKEL

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

my favourite "flavour" has always been poppy. my main beef with montreal bagels is the stingy amount of seeds they stick on their PBs.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have gone from plain to onion to everything back to plain and then finally on to cinnamon raisin. I dabbled in pumpernickel and found it wanting.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

i'm a bagel extremist (plain or everything)

― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Surmounter, bad intestinal things.

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

Bagel flavor hall of fame:
SALT

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

i do not live a block away from either mile-end mtl bagel place but i do live pretty close (i have no preference really)
i v rarely eat them tho b/c i am all 'wheat-sensitive' and crap :/
but damn they gooood straight-up outta the oven

i like how bagel threads bring out the mtlers

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

1927 -- Polish baker Harry Lender opened the first bagel plant outside New York City in New Haven, Conn. The bagel's popularity began to spread in the United States

1987 -- Bagels made their way into mainstream America, sold around the country in grocery stores and listed as standard items on fast food menus.

1997 -- Schnucks' Nancy Anne Bakery introduced 17 bagels reformulated to match the special tastes and texture desires of Midwesterners

http://www.schnucks.com/pressreleases/19970528-BagelHistory.html

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

i'm actually two blocks east of st. laurent, but you know, "a block" to me (originally a country boy) is like... you know, a 5-10 minute walk.

― Will M., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

um everything is just the best bagel ever, ok?

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

All I know is that it better be thin and not look like a hamburger bun with an anus. i'm easy as far as toppings/seeds/whatever go. but that massive-5-piece-of-bread-and-tastes-like-shit thing is the worst

― Will M., Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

lol wait are u saying u don't like those HUGE blown up chewy delicious bagels? i love those! the ones that look like a ball? i mean it really depends on the bagel

love me a panini style crisper too

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Sam's Bagels on Larchmont is still my vote for best bagel in Los Angeles.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

For two years I lived on 108th St in Manhattan, one block from Absolute Bagel. But now I live on the wrong coast entirely for bagels. The best bagels in Santa Cruz, CA are at the Bagelry, but they're not great.

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

bagels reformulated to match the special tastes and texture desires of Midwesterners

This is so patronizing. :(

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Onion Bagel, toasted with lots of butter = CLASSIC

But you can't get onion bagels in Australia. Not even a Dunkin' Donuts!

― King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I love that Dunkin' Donuts is now a bagel and coffee place with, maybe, six kinds of donut on offer.

― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

the bagel broker on beverly and orange grove = best bagel in l.a.

― get bent, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

best cream cheese, too!

― get bent, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

But you can't get onion bagels in Australia.

I bet you can at Glicks.

http://www.glicks.com.au/

― Trayce, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh challas. I am a 10 min walk from a Glicks, I thik I might have to go raid it later.

― Trayce, Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

the bagels at Stanford before they contracted with Noah's, especially the bagel that makes you think of wheat germ and macrobiotic diets

― youn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

A place near us makes bourekas in the shape of bagels. The spinach and cheese one is droolsome.

― Kim, Thursday, 19 July 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh challas. I am a 10 min walk from a Glicks, I thik I might have to go raid it later.

Ooooh and I'm only an eight hour drive! Local!

― King Boy Pato, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

does australia have jews?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

lol.

― Trayce, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

Australia only has two Jews: John Safran and Diamond Joe Gutnick.

― King Boy Pato, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

John Safran lives down the road from me, I see him having coffee down the street all the damn time.

There was a giant bar mitzvah street party in my street the other week too, with much dancing and clapping and Hava Nagila played by a dude with a synth on the back of a truck, as 100s of people trundled down the road.

I love this neighbourhood so much.

― Trayce, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

I have a real weakness for bagels, but not if they're the plain kind. I think Pesto bagels might be the best, but I'm a fan of several varieties. Cream cheese is a treat maybe every now and then, not necessary by any means. I don't need toasting or even any spread on a bagel to be perfectly happy with it.

― Bimble, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, as long as it's fresh, obv.

― Bimble, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

Pesto bagels

― gabbneb, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

pesto bagels? does bimble-onia have jews?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 19 July 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

pesto bagels just sound weird, man.

― get bent, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

they're two great tastes, but not together.

― get bent, Thursday, 19 July 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

don't knock it til you try it

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

pesto donuts

― gabbneb, Thursday, 19 July 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

had a tasty poppyseed today from the bagel store on metropolitan. i guess the stoner guys there got fired, it doesn't take 20 minutes to get a bagel now.

― hstencil, Thursday, 19 July 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Those guys make nice ones. I like Bagelsmith a little more, they're just so ABSURDLY huge.

― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

mmm poppyseeds

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently eating an Everything bagel with bacon scallion cream cheese, from Brueger's. Cream cheese overpowers garlic-y wonder of Everything bagel, but I still like it.

And what's with the toasted bagels being cold by the time I bring it back to my desk?

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know where bagelsmith's is, i hardly leave the neighborhood.

― hstencil, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

mmm absurdly huge poppy seed bagls

― Surmounter, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Bagelsmith is on Bedford, not far from the place you mentioned. Can't remember the cross street. Also, I suppose it's possible they could have closed down... their hypertrophied bagels were rather pricey.

― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

i miss h&h to the point where i'd shell out serious cash to have some shipped over here.

― get bent, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

https://www.hhbagels.com/Order_Form.htm

― gabbneb, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

are these Columbia Bagels? http://www.zabars.com/zabars-bagels--4-per-bag-/default/911000A.prd

― gabbneb, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

i know (xpost)

― get bent, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

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― get bent, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to walk into Dunkin Donuts while we are in Boston this wkend and ask for a "hamburger bun with an anus" btw.

― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/357880

― gabbneb, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

i've tried the ones from brooklyn bagel -- not bad, but that's not a glowing endorsement.

― get bent, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i can't stop eating bagels. like i have one every morning, even if it means i have to skip lunch.

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 15:12 (sixteen years ago)

bagels are mostly a weekend indulgence for me now. my new favorite one that i get at bergen bagels is the toasted whole wheat everything w/ jalapeno cream cheese mmmmnomz

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

bergen's jalapeno cream cheese is a++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

― mizzell, Friday, 3 April 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

i've been wanting to try jalapeno cream ch!

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

all other cream cheeses now taste bad to me.

― right thread, Ned (mizzell), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

do it! you will not regret

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

cream cheese from real bagel places is like dunking a bagel in peanut butter ice cream to me. butter all the way. do any of you hit up places that do unusual bagel variations? i am collecting knowledge on finding herbal sourdough/pumpkin/strawberry locations in ny.

many bagels a day anyway.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

wait what does that mean, peanut butter ice cream? like it's too much cream cheese?

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

peanut butter ice cream on a bagel sounds great btw

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

i occasionally do butter but it's usually cream cheese v. egg bacon and cheese for me

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:11 (sixteen years ago)

i do like thinly spread c.c. tho and not AVALANCHE

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:11 (sixteen years ago)

you know what's reall good? a thin spread of cc and bacon.

― right thread, Ned (mizzell), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

pig + c.c. is so decadent but yeah undeniable

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

(i made salami + c.c. canapes for a party once)

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

One of the perks of my job is every Friday morning, we have fresh bagels delivered to us from a nearby bagel company. There's lots of different varieties and they are mmm mmm good. We also have a bunch of different cream cheese flavors, but I prefer to bring my own fat free cream cheese.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

i miss bagels!

― 69, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

place near my gf's house makes these incredible breakfast sandwiches on bagels. i am damn near addicted to them. egg, sharp cheddar, pancetta.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:35 (sixteen years ago)

is there anywhere that does good hand-rolled non-generic deli bagels downtown kinda central, not hitting the 1st/12th st fringes with the best old school places? i want to pick some up after work.

the peanut butter ice cream thing just refers to how cream cheese avalanche makes me want to choke, like having that mouth-coating quality peanut butter has, but being in massive swirly form like ice cream.

quintessential bagel accompaniaments: tomato soup; avocado (not at once)

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

omg wow

i did salami and cc the other day! was gr8

PS i feel silly but i actually EAT allll the cc they put on my bagels now :/ but it's low-fat!

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:37 (sixteen years ago)

the wow was @ pancetta

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:37 (sixteen years ago)

yeah i had never really had much experience w/pancetta but it is sickkkk

― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

current standing of my bagel variation expeditionary work detailed below:

ess-a-bagel 51st/3rd: pumpernickel raisin (downtown ess does not toast, damn purists)

bagel place down the street from masonic temple, BK: weird pink strawberry bagel

bagel place i guess around north first next to metropolitan pool in williamsburg: regular specials like pumpkin, some weird kind of swirly candy bagel, chocolate, alluringly purple blueberry bagel, jalapeno cheddar (currently). oatbran raisin is good.

bagelsmith, as above: sourdough

place a second away from west fourth/ifc center, heading southeast: herbal sourdough, blueberry variation, sundried tomato, seven grain, dark russian pumpernickel-esque bagel.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

collecting knowledge on finding herbal sourdough/pumpkin/strawberry locations in ny

Oh my GOD what I wouldn't do for a pumpkin bagel. Crikey.

I agree about the peanut butter ice cream analogy, the whipped cream cheeses we get are really...it's too much. I don't like an avalanche, either.

Avocado on any type of bread = A+++

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

the other day i had sesame encrusted french bread with salami and avocado OMG

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

sorry off subject...

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

There's a place on the eastside of the Seattle area that does French Toast bagels...good, but very sweet.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

I think they do like some kind of apple pie variation as well.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

Avocado on any type of bread = A+++

word. i pretty much live off avocados, but they're real good for you.
forgot french toast bagel at the will.i.amsburg place too, in case anyone is transcribing the above into a handy pocket guide.

pumpkin bagel was excellent. i am not american and was totally intrigued by the beatlemania-esque fever of pumpkin harvest time.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

place a second away from west fourth/ifc center, heading southeast: herbal sourdough, blueberry variation, sundried tomato, seven grain, dark russian pumpernickel-esque bagel.

i'm trying to picture where this is - bagels on the square?

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:58 (sixteen years ago)

beatlemania-esque fever of pumpkin harvest time.

Oh hell yeah. I even used to be into pumpkin beer for awhile, until the brewery here changed their recipe. I love pumpkin anything...pie, muffins, hell...one Thanksgiving recently this lady made pumpkin bread pudding...incredible. Ha! I even eat pumpkin puree right out of the can, I'm serious.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

streetview tells me yes, that's the one. they have a pretty broad selection. herbal sourdough = o k. am kinda intrigued by the blueberry one because it's labelled as B.E.D or something that doesn't correspond to being exclusively blueberry themed. potential berry medley bagel: will keep you posted.

about pumpkins: i was asking around to try to determine the roots of it, and i think it was a staple way back when, for like settlers maybe; it feels like there is this over-arching pumpkin narrative i am missing out on. but seeing pumpkin butter and pumpkin everything spring out all of a sudden was nice.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

most canned pumpkin is actually butternut squash.

― right thread, Ned (mizzell), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

nah, I don't believe that. I've eaten butternut squash out of the can, too!

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

Anyway, what's the deal with strawberry bagels though? Whenever I've had these strange pink colored things, they don't actually have a strawberry taste. Anyone have a different opinion?

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

there is no such thing as strawberry taste outside of strawberries really though. strawberry flavour references strawberry flavour, not the fruit.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

i am not really down w/ the idea of fruit-flavored bagels (or fruit anywhere near my bagel in general)

― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

ahhh i would kill for an everything bagel w tomato and cream cheese

― 69, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

also yknow whats mostly gnarly, but kind of good? everything bagel w plain cream cheese and orange marmalade

― 69, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

I miss living 2 blocks from Bergen Bagels

― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

i like your username bear, bear, bear

― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

um...

oh yeah, i LOVE strawberry creamcheese on a poppy. nothing like it. and the place near me, they actually have like HUGE chunks of strawberry in there

― Surmounter, Friday, 3 April 2009 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

Wowza!

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 3 April 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

Man, Tofu Scallion CC on Everything..

― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 3 April 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

if i was able to find a vendor who would spread flatly and exercise restraint, that's the one i'd go for. + walnut variations.

― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 3 April 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

I like this bagel sandwich from Russ & Daughters: pumpernickel bagel, scallion cream cheese, lox, onions, tomatoes, capers. I also like the bialys(ies?) from Kossars, but whenever I bring them home they are like the poor bagel stepchildren.

I thought I was going to try and give up bagels, but unfortunately I live around the corner from a passable bagelry (Brooklyn Bagels) even though it's confusing since I live in Queens.

My willpower shrunk to nothing and I bought 3 "mini" pumpernickel bagels (this means they are about 3/4 the size of a giant bagel, "nonfat" cream cheese and lox.

Are bagels bad for you? Tell me the truth.

― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 9 August 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

Also, whole wheat bagels: a healthier choice or self-delusion?

― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 9 August 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

I miss being able to go to East London regularly and get proper bagels. DAMN YOU RUBBISH SUPERMARCHE BAGELS THAT TASTE LIKE BUMMING.

That is all.

― The last Gooner optimist: (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 9 August 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

dense chewy bagels in nyc => murray's bagels at #4

Should I go there? I have yet to find the dense compact chewy bagels that I expected to find in NYC. Everything tastes too much like bread.

― youn, Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

if you wanted dense chewy bagels you missed montreal by about 600km, dawg

but seriously i am no help on nyc bagels. the only ones i had when i was there were RUBBISH

― Quantic Dream, So Hard To Beat (Will M.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:47 (fifteen years ago)

I live 7 blocks from an Ess-A-Bagel but a) I haven't been there yet because it's too hot to walk that far, but fall weekends it will prob be a LIFE STAPLE, and b) I grew up on Lender's so I always wish "real" bagels had that slight...sourness.

― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)

I found Montreal bagels in Hendon Central!

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:49 (fifteen years ago)

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