Everything bagels

Sorry Op, I love them.

R1. Me, too

Do your loved ones carry an umbrella in your presence, r1 and r2?

No for me. I'm a purist. Poppy or sesame, New York or Montreal. That's it.

The rest are just buns with holes no matter what else is added.

I agree OP! A plain NYC bagel toasted just right with cream cheese lix & capers is the way to go. It’s so good.

(lix = lox, obviously)

I"ve never had an everything bagel that looks like the one in OP's pic. Too much going on there.

I prefer lix, r6

All you need is one thing, like sesame seeds. Not EVERYTHING.

I love taking everything bagel seasoning and encrusting it on salmon filets before cooking.

R5 and R8 need to go here

The onion and garlic are too bitter. The Montreal bagel is just too small and some of the New York bagels have gotten too damn big. Give me a plain, sesame or poppy toasted with butter or cream cheese. I worked in a bagel store while in high school, baked tons of them. One right out of the oven is heaven.

Water bagels or egg bagels? There's different you know.

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Water bagels.

Salt bagels and pumpernickel bagels.

My favorite bagel, the poppy seed, has been replaced by the ubiquitous everything bagel. I hate those little specks of dried onion and garlic. Team poppy seed.

My favorite is a salt bagel, preferably with lox and some bacon cream cheese. Yes, I want to die of salt poisoning.

Pumpernickel has no taste for me. I wonder how come there's no such thing as a rye bagel.

I think of Everything bagels as a typical example of American excess. I much prefer a simple toasted sesame bagel with lox and cream cheese.

The onion bits always look, and taste, burnt. Sesame seeds get stuck in your teeth. Poppy seeds register a false positive on urine tests.

The best option is plain.

Poppy seed or plain!

That’s for shiksa and other gentiles.

Does anyone eat bialys anymore? They were only good fresh or toasted. They weren't as popular as bagels, but they were definitely around.

Cosí bread was the Gentile bialy. Too funny.

The guy who owned the bagel store also owned a bialy bakery. He'd bring fresh, still warm ones in and give me one. Warm, soft, dripping with butter, with a slight onion taste was sublime.

Get a load of R20!

I do t know that I’d take his load —pic please.

But he’s right about a proper Jewish repast. Pumpernickel, poppy or sesame—with cream cheese and Nova lox. Onion or capers allowed in a pinch ;)

Re Zucker’s on 8th Ave.: a quality bagel and lox, but a danger zone should you get in line behind some tourist trying to create a “concoction.”

I grew up eating bagels and bialys (and excellent Italian bread). I never ate lox and cream cheese on a bagel until I was almost 30. It was a revelation!

Fresh bagels shouldn’t be toasted. And don’t get me started on those who order a scooped bagel piled high with full fat cream cheese. Just eat the damn bagel and don’t eat any carbs for the rest of the day.

Where is it written. R30?

R14 as usual is Defacto aka teacake trying to get us to discuss one of his many pathetic cosplays

R29 Bad Jew!

R39 you just learned this?! Of course, it’s all wrong. Oy!

For R30^

R33, I'm not Jewish, though I grew up with Jews, ate bagels and bialys growing up, and baked bagels while in high school. The idea of eating fish for breakfast was not in the realm of possibility. The first time I had bagels and lox was after a burial service of a half Jewish lesbian I was friends with. It was really lunch time so I figured, why not.

I've talked about this before on here and people didn't believe me, but it's true. I love onion bagels - and NOT the kind with the onions baked to a crisp on top of them. That kind is horrible and the onions are baked to a crisp and become bitter.

I love the kind that have the little bits of onion incorporated throughout the dough, which gives the bagel a savory (yet slightly sweet) flavor. No, it's not a bialy...it's a BAGEL with a hole.

One of our grocery chains makes them and they are tasty - love the flavor. My only complaint about theirs is over the years (at this grocery store) the onion bagels have become more and more flat, which makes it difficult to cut them in half and toast them. But, you take the good with the bad.

R37, I have never in my life heard of this bagel of which you speak. Where was this?

I'm in Northern CA and it's Safeway that carries them.

I really can't fathom what is so other-worldly about that to you (or others). Case in point: I've had poppy seed bagels that have the poppy seeds within the dough as well. Yes, REALLY.

You CAN put ingredients INSIDE the dough (see also: cinnamon-raisin bagels).

Tradition, R39, tradition! I have never heard of poppy seeds in the bagel. Never! I bet they are not water bagels (bagels are thrown into a vat of boiling water until they puff up and rise to the surface)

Yes, r40 I know how bagels are made.

I've made them myself on occasion; however, it's been probably about 15 years.

R39 a bagel from Safeway?

Mshuge!

r42 Unfortunately, bagel places aren't ubiquitous here, and I'm not a fan of the bagel places there are. Safeway's onion bagels have great flavor and are made fresh every morning. Lovely when I can get them still warm.

That’s no excuse. Oy!

Even Noah’s works, in a pinch.

R31 in the Commandments.

So it is written, so it shall be done.

R10, everything bagel seasoning is also really good on baked sweet potatoes.

R43, we are just going to have to take your word for it. We still don't believe you, btw.

R46, WHAT?!

r44 there are no Noah's nearby and I'm not driving 20 miles for a bagel. If I happen to be there in the morning, yes.

r46 I use TJ's Everything bagel seasoning in scrambled eggs and it's fucking delicious.

So you live on some non-Jewish vacuum?

I'm quite fond of rosemary salt bagels myself. And you shouldn't need to toast a fresh bagel. A good bagel shop will question your choice if you ask for it toasted.

Bagels? Nah. I prefer freshly made buttermilk biscuits.

R51, I bring them home then toast them. I love them with butter, cream cheese or tuna salad. I also slice and freeze them. They are delicious toasted even after a few days in the freezer.

I always feel like I’m taking my life in my hands, literally, whenever I slice a bagel, so I usually just eat em whole and ungarnished.

r50 - there are Jewish people around here. How there are not Jewish bagel shops OR delis is beyond me.

Also, I look askance at you people who are questioning why we would want to put butter or cream cheese and toast our bagels.

I refuse to cow-tow to anyone who tells me I can't enjoy a toasted onion bagel (with small onion bits INSIDE the bagel) with melted butter and a fresh, hot cup of coffee. You can judge away to your heart's content...I also don't care what you think about me wearing flip-flops as often as possible. While gardening, no less. I even go to the office in flip-flops as well.

I can do what I want in my own little world. Bob Ross taught me that.

Agreed. Eating is too messy.

R56 has stated her boundaries!

I like them - but they don't need SALT as one of the sprinklings, when there is clearly salt in some of the other stuff they put on there. That's what I don't like.

Otherwise I like an Onion bagel.

I also don't like flavored cream cheeses - some of them are nasty, particularly fruit-based. Who the fuck wants blueberry cream cheese on a flavored bagel?

In my mind, you can have a flavored bagel with plain cream cheese - but to have flavored bagels with flavored cream cheese is a food crime.

R52 fat Baptist

R53 will die in a grease fire…the day after they learn that no one actually toasts bagels, much less freezes them. You buy them fresh and eat them immediately.

R60 Episcopalian, my dear. I could lose 20 pounds though. I don't know any Baptists.

R56 cow tow? Oy gevalt!!

Clearly, people DO toast bagels AND freeze them.

Just because "every living Jew and/or real 'bagelist'" doesn't toast them doesn't stop others from doing just that.

And that's okay.

Fuck this.

I've heard of people microwaving day old bagels but only for about 10 seconds.

r65, that's the sort of thing that would be cute at pride, but the fact that people were waiting in long lines for those when they first came out baffles me. It's a plain bagel with food coloring.

Dubai chocolate bagels all over Tiktok

R62 same difference

That's nasty.

R64, Clearly there are a lot a lot of stupid people in this world.

r71 you believe someone is STUPID because they choose to toast their bagel and/or eat them with butter or cream cheese?

Go outside and breathe in some fresh air. Then contemplate WHY you choose to be outraged because someone [bold] eats a common food differently than you do. [/bold]

Next thing you'll be doing is encouraging the villagers to string someone up because they want to put vinegar on their fries instead of ketchup.

Are you OK? ^. This thread is meant to be humorous. Are you not familiar with Jewish humor?

Has the DL sunk that low, at this point? You gentiles are the wurst.

I LOVE an Everything Bagel toasted to hell and back with plain cream cheese. YUM. Now I'm going to have to get one for breakfast tomorrow.

The Everything Bagel cookie.

I know people love them, but to me the dried minced garlic in that Everything Seasoning is unappetizing. A bagel can be delicious, but I’d prefer sesame or even a plain toasted bagel with butter and/or cream cheese, or salmon spread.

There are a few bagel shops near my place in NYC that make chicken salad sandwiches on a very fresh bagel, and these look delicious, too.

The common food has a specific ethnic origin before its mass popularity. It's common for people to think the way their food was eaten in childhood is the best or only way to do it. Agree to disagree. Really, who cares?

Jeni’s Ice Cream had an Everything Bagel flavor a few years back. Reviews were ecstatic, including one from America’s Test Kitchen, and they quickly sold out. When it returned, I tried some - it was really odd but almost worked. Tasting garlic in ice cream was the showstopper for me.

Sounds vile r78. But I am curious.

It was not terrible, r79. These reviews are more mixed, but there was a lot of buzz from other sources.

My African-American BF eats blueberry bagels with tuna salad. He's always threatening to prepare one for me.

There was a place in Ottawa that served huge, soft, round, ring shaped bread rolls in multiple flavours. Always toasted. The raisin bread bagel was nice but don't call it a bagel.

R61, you can really go fuck yourself. I lived around the corner from Barbra Streisand, Judge Judy's father was my dentist for 10 years, I got a BS from Brooklyn College, I baked bagels in a Jewish owned bagel store in high school, I've been eating bagels and bialys for as long as I can remember and I work at Mt Sinai. I might be even more Jewish than you!

^^^Oh, and I lost my virginity at 17 with a Jewish woman!

How often are you fat whores eating bagels for fucks sake? They should be a rare indulgence and eaten however you like.

Not very often.

R85, they are. We're talking about a lifetime's worth. Now I think I eat about 6 a year. Back in the day, at least once a week.

R85 That’s true. These are loaded with carbohydrates and the toppings full of fat and sodium. At least when they’re served at breakfast meetings at work they are pre-sliced into quarters. You almost always find a lonely bowl of fruit or fruit salad nearby.

I read once that a bagel is nearly as unhealthy as a doughnut.

These look and sound delicious but I abstain because I know myself too well and could end up overdoing it or, worse, adopting the habit of having one each day, then two on weekends, it’s a slippery slope.

[quote] I baked bagels in a Jewish owned bagel store in high school

In a wood-fired brick oven?

That's Montreal-style

God I miss Montreal bagels. It's been so many years since I've had one (I used to live down the street from St Viateurs Bagels in Montreal). I've never understood why they never became a thing in the US

No, R89. It was gas.

I think the flame is what makes it r92

They weren't religious. The store was open on Saturday and they sold pork products. Still, it was owned by a Jewish family.

My 90 year old dad LOVES the Everything Bagels from Einstein's. All I know is they stink up my car when I take him to get a batch. I couldn't imagine actually eating one.

R83 Sure, Yankel.

No one brags about working at Mt. Sinai. 😳

R91, you'd be shocked at the rents around there now. I had a 5 1/2 on Henri-Julien near Laurier in the early 2000s for $580 utilities extra. My neighbours who were longtime tenants laughed at how high my rent was. Now it's quadruple that or more. The Plateau and Mile End have suffered from being labelled "coolest neighbourhoods" by various magazines over the years.

I've only had the everything bagels twice. Not much of a fan. I prefer the sesame seeds and then then poppy seeds variety instead. If you're in NYC try those sold by Tompkins Square Bagels, probably the best.

R98. I don't doubt it. I went through this in Portland in the 2000s when "Portlandia" was broadcast and the NYT discovered Portland and the affordability of the city vanished.

Anyway, The Plateau was such a wonderful and crazy cheap neighborhood in the mid 90s when I was a student at McGill. I just loved it.

That was the best time r100. I shared another 5 1/2 in a triplex on Chrisophe-Colomb between Mont-Royal and Gilford. Insanely cheap but that first outside stairway was treacherous in winter. Everything was within a 5 minute walk. Of course parking was always a problem but I loved it.

My father grew up there, on St-Hubert in a huge place. And the Metro was close by. I live in an apartment in Outremont now but I miss those days.

So.many cool little restos.

I’ve never had a blueberry bagel but blueberries IN tuna salad is delicious.

I had an everything bagel once and it turned out just to be a toasted-coating in the round with no bread in it.

[quote] You bite into them and the entire environment is subjected to a SHOWER of shriveled little bits that were loosely embedded in the bagel.

How devastating for you.

*kowtow, r56.

And as far as I'm concerned, you can reach into your toilet and smear a turd on your onion bagel.

[quote]I’ve never had a blueberry bagel but blueberries IN tuna salad is delicious.

I could have written this. I once grabbed a bag of what I thought were cinnamon raisin bagels, and they were blueberry instead. I'll just say that blueberries and bagels are each a crime against the other. And yes, when I get to eating tuna every five years or so, I like to add a healthy amount of blueberries. They distract me from the mayonnaiseness of the mayonnaise.

R69 Mazel tov!

R105

R63^

What, no love for everything flagels?

That thing looks like something you'd put outside for birds to eat.

I don't eat bagels anymore TOO many calories ( a large bagel can have 400 calories)

[Quote] How devastating for you.

Shut up Darphan.

"These are loaded with carbohydrates and the toppings full of fat and sodium.... I read once that a bagel is nearly as unhealthy as a doughnut."

The difference is that you will feel full for quite awhile after that bagel with toppings, but that donut will give a sugar rush and then you will feel like you haven't eaten anything in no time at all.

Not that you should be eating tons of bagels, but the two aren't really the same.

I love bagels. I gave them up to eat healthier. I’m going to have to eat some on my birthday.

I stopped eating bagels about 3 years ago. They are incredibly carbohydrate loaded and bad on the digestion. Now I would only have it once or twice a year on a Sunday morning and it would have to be a great one from a places I know makes the best.

All true, R96.

R97, who said I was bragging?

I wanna bagels, that should be enough calories for lunch.

Lick bagels*

God I love Montreal even though their bagels suck.

I crave bagels when I crave pasta, in the dead of winter, mostly in February.

This thread is virulently anti-Semitic and must be deleted forthwith.

When job applicant was told he failed a portion of the drug test ... "It must've been my poppy bagel." When told he flunked the rest of the test ..."It must've been my everything bagel."

R122 That wasn’t poppy seeds, that was Delta 8.