bagel as sandwich-filling conveyance C/D

kind of C, kind of D

i love everything bagels so having them as part of a sandwich is an obv classic, but they are usually just tough enough under tooth pressure to compress the fillings of a sandwich, causing them to spill out over the edge, rather than yielding and allowing a normal, even bite to be taken. just my $.02

i am opposed

this really only works when the bagel is very soft and fresh or nicely toasted and crispy. any place in the middle area and you get all sorts of squishing, sliding, and meat-dropping. also much better w/ flavored bagels than plain bagels b/c plain bagels are kind of useless unless they're slathered in fat.

it's just so big and heavy for a sandwich IMO - I love bagels but when I'm eating one I want a simple topping and I want to appreciate tue bagel as a piece of great bread -not just a vessel for other shit. otherwise it's a waste of a bagel and a waste of a sandwich.

the bagel*

I had my first bagel at age 13. It was A Thing. We went to Our Jewish Friends' house, and they served us bagels and Dr. Brown's soda, and it was. v. confusing b/c I had never heard of bagels or even seen Dr. Brown's soda and was unsure of what they were, or why they were different. On the car ride home, my mom explained that this was what people from New York ate, and that they were really quite cosmopolitan. Because I wanted to be cosmopolitan, I went on a summer-long bagel kick culminating in a trip to Queens.

with pb & j, the smushing out part is kind of awesome.

dud is with a more serious sandwich, avg bagel just can't hold enough of the goods so you are getting ripped off, to which all jews are thoroughly opposed.

bagel sandwich needs to be cut in half and bagel can't be too fat/wide so that you can eat not straight into it like a sandwich but with its arc #bagelphysics

On the car ride home, my mom explained that this was what people from New York ate, and that they were really quite cosmopolitan

i had pretty much the same what is a bagel/a bagel is new york experience on a trip there around the same age. i maybe go too far away from toppings - i just like mine w/butter - but yeah i think volume and how well you can handle them are paramount here. avocado is a good fit; a lot of the cream cheeses less so, imo, because they're gonna smoosh around.

Dudly, do not like bagel sammich.

ditto - English muffin sandwich is better.

people at the bagel store who request bagel sandwiches "with the insides scooped out" are literally worse than genocide

if i worked at a bagel store i would be less offended if someone asked to molest my kid than if someone asked me for a bagel "with the insides scooped out"

i would sooner ask for prostate cancer than a bagel "with the insides scooped out"

bacon egg & cheese on an onion bagel, fuiud

"literally" worse than genocide

no quotes

Elmo otm.

Egg sandwiches on bagels are C but not too keen on any other kind of bagel sandwich except for maybe the pizza bagel which isn't actually a sandwich so probably doesn't really count.

whiney, ts: bagel with the insides scooped out vs your kid with the insides scooped out

bacon egg & cheese on an onion bagel, fuiud

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:45 AM (31 minutes ago)

otm! i mean the breakfast bagel sandwich is fucking classic

Prefer bkfast on a bialy tbh, it's more sourness and less overall bread.

one advantage of the bagel sandwich is the heartiness of the bagel lends itself to travel without getting soggy. i will often take a bagel sandwiched to go for a long trip to the beach in the ice chest

this thread is so timely. i made the mistake of ordering a club sandwich on a bagel yesterday.

they are usually just tough enough under tooth pressure to compress the fillings of a sandwich, causing them to spill out over the edge, rather than yielding and allowing a normal, even bite to be taken.

otm

club sandwich on a bagel? what did you use for the middle slice of bread tortilla?

metaphorically worse than genocide

seriously, if you gave me the chance to watch 20,000 people have their necks methodically slit and then their corpses stacked and buried in a shallow grave OR watch a grown man in a sweater ask another man to scoop out the inside of his bagel, guess which I would pick

literally worse

literally

"actually"

^

what does scooping out the inside of a bagel even mean

"in a sweater"

http://www.kickinthehead.org/kickinthehead3/comics/2008-08-06-bagel-scooped-out.gif

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why on earth would someone want the inside of their bagel scooped out

are you sure this isn't an euphemism?

because they're human pieces of shit

i've never heard of this insides scooped out, but brueggers has a special knife that cuts the bagel into ~3~ slices. then they throw away the middle. when i told the woman gettin my food that this was nearly but not quite worse than metaphorical genocide, she only shrugged. wonderin what kind of standards they have at breuggers corporate.

Isn't the insides scooped out thing for annoying people who are afraid to live life and enjoy the occasional carb?

true, i did tell woman i thought it was wasteful and asked her for sandwich made of middles, but she only had one

I just meant that I thought that is why ppl did that in general. I didn't realize it was SOP for bruegers.

surprised at all the naysayers here

i think one key element being overlooked here is quality of bagel--a better-quality bagel will be less tough and not mess with fillings as roxy points out above (needless to say the bagel *must* be toasted)

i agree that big involved sandwiches w/ a lot of cold cuts on a bagel is not a great idea

but a bagel BLT is just... i mean, done right, its honestly one of my top 5 sandwiches of all time

breakfast sandwich--really any kind--on a bagel is also an undisputed classic

my fave is bacon, egg & tofu cream cheese on an everything bagel

ime of non-traditional traditional sandwich breads, English muffin > bagel unless the sandwich involves hummus

I can't believe you you dumb motherfuckers, I would go as far as to say that the bagel is my favorite sandwich bread

if someone asked to molest my kid

chances are good the perp would be a hyperbolic blogger

english muffin, gtfo

just a note I don't really know if you motherfuckers are dumb because I only skimmed the thread but I just didn't see overwhelming joy all the way through it hence the post

i mean for breakfast sandwiches a bagel is mighty fine and an English muffin in inoffensive at best but there is nothing, nothing superior to a griddled portuguese bolo

http://midwesternexposure.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/bolos-02.jpg

what about croissants

haha only people from rhode island, portugal, and fall river MA will have any idea what a bolo is

lol and New Bedford but yeah

haha yeah i guess bolos & portuguese sweet bread in general are probably regional to immigrant communities but i think hawaiian sweet bread is practically identical, so i've heard

croissants are ok but they fall apart too easily imho

I used to be a big croissant booster before realizing that, for my purposes, they are a terrible bread choice for a sandwich unless it's baked-in ham & cheese

yeah it probably is, lotta portuguese ppl in hawaii

portuguese sweet bread

This is one of the best things I've discovered in the past couple years.

omg

portuguese breads made as far down the coast as fairfield co ime

meant to write 'made it as far'

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/06/27/news/photos_stories/ashley_morrisette--300x450.jpg

conflicted tbh

i guess this is not technically a breakfast sandwich but I once french toasted some portuguese sweet bread and then put a heap of marscapone & blueberry compote between two slices

omg

then i died of joy

now i miss portuguese sweet bread like a motherfucker. missin u, providence.

do people really get the insides of bagels scooped out or is whiney in a twilight zone episode where only he can see the scooped out bagels people are eating

i wouldnt call these walking turds "people"

HOH my god the GIS for "scooped out bagel" is frightening

whiney otm

bagel w/ tomato, lettuce, cheese (sharp cheddar or any fresh), s&p, w/ or w/o mayo is one of the defining sandwiches of my life real talk

how do you even scoop out a bagel? a knife? that seems like it would be sorta hard

dayo otm tho that gis is like the food version of looking at amputee photos

i would have imagined scooped out bagel is more about the way the toppings fill the cavity & not calorie conscientousness. unthinkably dinky either way though

I got the "veg out" (onion, lettuce, tomato, sprouts, cc) on an asiago bagel from einstein bros today and realized as all the toppings slid away how much I'd rather have had just the bagel and cc

now i miss portuguese sweet bread like a motherfucker

horseshoe otm. portuguese folk please continue to migrate inward from SE new england, bring bolos and linguiça as well

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/15/article-2037734-0DE6DD6900000578-373_634x418.jpg

I realized as all the toppings slid away how much I'd rather have had just the bagel and cc

What are you doing with my seal?!

the seal represents the lumpy veggies falling out of the bagel

hdu

u_u

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― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 16, 2011 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

powerlol

the bagel scoopers are just trying to save 30 calories or so

i wonder if you could fashion a taco like sandwich out of a hollowed out bagel

i'm just trying to work w/ this heinous creation

for the record i'm pro bagel as sandwich bread BUT a sandwich with really good normal bread is pretty incomparable to mostly anything

nothing is more appetizing than "normal bread"

^ this ignores tortillas, which i will not abide

we're talking about in the realm of sandwiches imo

come on yall a taco is just an abstract sandwich

i have been known to begin making myself a sandwich and then instead transubstantiating the whatnot into a taco while yelling BUSSIT WHILE I CHANGE THE STYLE

quit stealin my bits hoos

that was just on a silver platter, soz

besides, you're right here in the thread, its not stealing, its ~homage~

i would have imagined scooped out bagel is more about the way the toppings fill the cavity & not calorie conscientousness. unthinkably dinky either way though

yeah even if you think it is barbaric, kinda surprised by the bemusement over bagel-scooping. i thought of it as like a sister to the schmear, where you get a bagel & topping &c but ask them to flatten it so you don't have to deal with a cream cheese avalanche; all the problems mentioned upthread about having too unwieldy and three dimensional a bagel are solved by having dug topping foundations into the bread itself.

i am not defending it, i just think it is a different way of eating, using the bagel shell as more of a vehicle.

i dont understand what hoos just stole from whiney

I just had a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwich for breakfast. I am generally on board with bagels as sandwich filling conveyances except for all of the logistical problems of actually eating them.

Scooping out the inside of the bagel throws off the texture and flavor balance that makes bagels so delicious.

I think there is some regional specialty sandwich that involves scooping out the inside of the bread its on but I can't think of what it is.

scooping out makes me think of $12 ski mountain chili-in-a-hollowed-out-boule atrocities

You are nuts. Soup in a bread bowl rules.

I like bagels, I really do, but its too awkward to have anything in them that isn't a spreadable filling.

i dont understand what hoos just stole from whiney

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Saturday, September 17, 2011 1:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

while yelling BUSSIT WHILE I CHANGE THE STYLE

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:05 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

is a joke whiney made on twitter a while back

RT @1000TimesYes: Every time I change a font in a document, I yell "BUSSIT WHILE I CHANGE THE STYLE!" like Son Of Bazerk

im banning whiney from this thread

Thi bagel-scooping horror is making me think of that Seinfeld bit about the muffin tops and the left over muffin-asses.

wtf

being a bagel purist should be 1p3 101

im banning whiney from this thread

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Saturday, September 17, 2011 7:58 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 68.53.18.199] Bookmark

dying

Oh I'd never scoop out a bagel, it seems like senseless violence if u ask me.

bacon egg & cheese on an onion bagel

ciabatta or english muffin is 10000000x superior

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2675282222_fa460830c4.jpg

big appeal of the bagel to is the fact that it's boiled, not so much that it has an insane amount of filler material. i don't think i'd necessarily mind the cheating, but something about doing that warrants some denomination of cheating. whoever serves that oughta make st8-up boiled bread sandwiches if they're really wasting dough like that

i don't if it's dyslexia when i use words i'm going to use later in a sentence near the beginning. in this case, i meant "i don't think i'd necessary mind the act" - not "the cheating"

idk i feel like whiney is fighting the good fight here

Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

Done.

can't tell which side of the argument the picture just upthread is supporting, & it seemingly only contains things i don't eat, but man it looks good + i vote for whatever that is as the right moral option here

felt similarly moved by the portuguese bread mentioned earlier; i wondered about making some kinda take on it, since it's regionally contraband, though i am not a great breadmaker

whiney, it is 101, so why are you bringing it up in a 300 level discussion on bagels