Re: Bagels

Julian Macassey wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 11:14:23 +0100, Citizen Smith
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >
> > 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.
> 
> 	Historically, the East End was where immigrants settled,

Yes, that was true.
Before the Jews it was the Huguenots. Since most of the Jewish peeps have moved 
on it is mainly Bangladeshi with a smattering of bent over woke hipsters. The 
Bangladeshis have been there since the late 1980s and they ain't going 
anywhere.

> Besides bagels, they gave us talents like Marty Feldman, Manny
> Shinwell, Sir John Edward Cohen, etc. I could fill pages with the
> names of East End Jewish immigrants and their children that came
> out of the impoverished East End and made Britain a better place,

Did you know you come across as rather patronising?

> 	There are still a couple of bagel shops on Brick Lane,

OK, I only know of one at the north end of the lane nearest Columbia Road.

> alas they don't sell bialys.

I had to google what that is. I don't think they ever sold them, it's a bagel 
bakery. The refrigeration service company I worked for way back then was Jewish 
owned and run and so a lot of their customers were Jewish establishments.

> 	While we reel from the thuggish riots in England, remember
> the The Battle of Cable Street in the East End when Jewish
> immigrants confronted Fascists.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street

Blimey, having seen that plaque a million times I had no idea what it was 
abawt. Fanks fer da edukashun, geezer.