Re: Bagels

On 5.8.24 11:14 am, Citizen Smith wrote:
> 
> Bit empty in here, so here goes...
> 
> Getting on for forty years ago I used to service the fridges in a bagel shop in
> Brick Lane, east London. The lane was mainly a Jewish area then. They sold the
> bagels filled and unfilled and they were delicious. My favourite ones were the
> hot salt beef and mustard, and the smoked salmon and cream cheese. You can't
> get bagels as good as that from the supermarkets.
> My favourite breakfast bagel (from the supermarket) at the moment is a bit of I
> weird one, but it works for me and I like it, it's a cinnamon and raisin bagel,
> toasted and buttered and filled with half melted cheddar and a couple of slices
> of spicy salami.

We stayed a couple of times at a hotel just across the green from the
Houses of Parliament where smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels were
always on the breakfast buffet and I rapidly acquired a taste for them
(it took about 3 seconds) and they stayed favourite. Sadly, bagels of
any kind are not on my menu as they are only slightly less calorific
than sugar. The self imposed ban is only broken when I go to visit
youngest son who cannot do anything useful all day if denied bagels for
breakfast - toasted and  topped with bacon, omelettes and anything that
falls into the frying pan. SWMBO is now coeliac thanks to a nasty bout
of Covid, and the gluten free jobbies are not in the same league at all.

-- 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire , UK

The saddest fact of life: Bread, Chips and Coffee never taste as good as 
they smell when passing the shop.