Bagels

We normally get sesame seed bagels, almost always have bagels in the freezer ready to go. I like onion and egg bagels too. We buy large packages of lox (smoked salmon) from Costco, and use the onion and chive Philadelphia brand cream cheese for our lox and bagels. Sometimes we'll make other sandwiches with the bagels, or just have a bagel with butter or smart balance as a snack. I don't care for the sweet bagels at all.
 
I love bagels-especially the cinnamon/raisin-but we have stopped buying them because we were all getting fat from them! They really are soooo bad for you. Especially when you put cream cheese and other toppings on them. There was a time when everyone thought they were almost a "health food" when used as a replacement for doughnuts and such but they`re probably not much better.
 

I miss the days in NYC with their "bagel with a schmear" - those were REAL bagels. Never found anything as good since then - close, but never quite the same.

I haven't had a bagel in a few years and until this thread I was doing fine - I thank you, Debodun, for now putting the bagel-whig in my ear! :mad:;)
 
What we have here at grocery stores around here aren't true bagels. They are just bread shaped in a ring and baked; brushed with some egg wash to give them a shiny look. When I contacted the store chain to point out that REAL bagels are boiled before baking and they shouldn't call them "bagels" but "bread rounds", they became defensive saying they just didn't have the resources to make boiled bagels. I even contacted the Attorney General's Office, but never heard back from them and the store is still promoting bread rounds as bagels.
 
Good for you Deb.
I'm with Seabreeze & SifuPhil... love the sesame, scallion or chive cream cheese and lox... and nothing beats a NYC bagel! Now and then Whole Foods has them trucked in on Sun. mornings, but ya gotta get there early!
 
Nothing in the bread world like a real bagel. Give me the poppy seeds and I'll gladly flunk my next drug test. (Actually only ever had to do one and passed of coarse)
 
You guys got me going... yesterday I met a friend at the "NY style" bagel joint, grabbed toasted seames bagles w/ scallion cream cheese, took them a few doors down to the Starbucks & thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!
 

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