https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/n...e=articleShare
Now civilization is failing. I managed to get a package of Kraft and some local bagels, yesterday.Now, New York’s bagel purveyors are starting to feel the effects in a sudden and surprising development that has left them scrambling to find and hoard as much cream cheese as they can.
Years back, so many years back that TWA was still flying coast to coast and Fairchild still making A-10s, I flew back to California with 5 dozen NY bagels in a garbage bag at my wife's "request". I had forgotten how large authentic bagels really were. The smell permeated the entire cabin. Most bagels I've found since are little more than bagel-shaped bread. Good on you for the score.
Commercial bagels and chain supermarket bagels are trash. Just squishy rolls. We have a local bakery that does the real thing. We have Kraft cream cheese, of course and a pretty good one from Cabot from Vermont.
My wife thinks the onion bagels stink up the house. That's true!!
I worked in a bagel factory for a while during my senior year in high school. I would make bagels and bialys.
Only job I ever got fired from.
Turned out that a bully that I taught a lesson to for picking unmercifully on another kid that worked there...was the boss's son. Who knew?
(I found out the next day that they couldn't have "people like me" working there. No mention of his son's preying on a younger, smaller kid.)
Oh well. The bagels and bialys were great, though.
There's nothing civil about this war.
How many people even heard of a bialy? I've only saw them in NY and surrounds. I've mentioned watching an ex-pat from NY trying to buy chopped liver in an HEB - @HCM for HEB. I had to translate. Needless to say, HEB didn't have any.
A cream cheese shortage might drive consumers to other baked goods and reduce bagel injuries. ;-)
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Did you know? Eating bagels can be a dangerous pastime. Well, it’s not exactly the eating of the bagel, more the preparing of the bagel. It turns out that bagel related injuries are some of the most frequent causes of trips to the ER for the average American, even beating out burns form overheated coffee!:
“Americans ate an estimated 3 billion bagels at home in 2011, an average of about 11 per person (this doesn’t include bagels eaten at work). And in the course of slicing up all those bagels, almost 2,000 people cut their fingers so badly that they ended up in an emergency room. By the finger-cut-to-E.R. metric, that makes bagel-cutting the fifth most dangerous activity in the American kitchen.
https://www.newyorkerbagels.com/blog...n-er-statistic
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I do like a proper bagel. And if you start with one that's already good and chewy and let it sit out for a couple of days, it's a great jaw workout. :-)
Oy vey schmear…Originally Posted by Glenn E. Meyer
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
You should lox this thread.
When I arrived in Montreal in 1980 to begin college, I was shocked and horrified by three things:
1. The pizza
2. The casual, guiltless smearing of mustard on a hamburger roll
3. The skinny little Montreal bagels with the enormous holes that seemed designed solely as a deliberate insult to real NY bagels
Canadian pizza is still unfathomably horrible, the shame of the developed world. Mustard on a hamburger is still gross and contrary to God's will. But, it wasn't long before I came to appreciate the unique Montreal bagel, and now I can barely tolerate what passes for a bagel here. Fairmount and St. Viateur were/are the cathedrals of bageldom. Whenever we go up there we bring back many dozens. In the 45 minutes or so to the border, typically one of those dozens have already have been consumed.
https://www.stviateurbagel.com/
https://fairmountbagel.com/
@blues - they still sell a very nice bialy at Russ & Daughters.
This whole thread is a red herring.
ETA: Making the holes was tiring work...they didn't have Viagra back then.
There's nothing civil about this war.
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