Re: Bagels

Bob Henson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

I've never really tried bagels except perhaps very rarely at a hotel
brekkie buffet where they've just been plain and unadorned, not to say
[ahem] naked.

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