Re: Bagels

Sn!pe wrote:
> 
> 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.

Not in the same league. I've had croissant and danish pastries at hotel brekkie 
buffets, pretty meh.