Yes, I live in Brookyn NY, and I grew up in Queens NY.
I’m a New Yorker.
And I don’t care what Chicagoans say, with their deep dish pizza… NY pizza is awesome, dammit!!
But you know what food is also great in NYC?
Bagels.
Yes, that circular bread treat, sometimes with different seeds on it, like poppy seeds or sesame seeds, or maybe large-grained salt, or garlic or onion. Sometimes the bread is flavored, like cinnamon raisin or pumpernickel.
Salt:
And sometimes they’re plain.
Then there’s the Everything Bagel, adding every external topping at once. The indecisive (or greedy) New Yorker’s dream.
There are different types of cream cheese spreads, or other spreads like whitefish salad, or they could be the base of a sandwich.
Crazy, I know.
I know eating lots of bread isn’t great for keeping my weight down… BUT… I can’t go cold turkey.
Now I now have relatives in other areas on the USA. In Ohio, Maine, Colorado and Florida. And yes, I bring bagels wherever I go.
Honestly, they’re just not the same in other areas. And frozen bagels in stores are bareable, in a pinch. I guess.
…
Legend has it that the NYC water, for some reason, is great for making bagels. Go figure.
And since I’m driving to Ohio for Christmas, I’m bringing FOUR DOZEN BAGELS.
I’m just glad that holiday eating doesn’t count : )
bagels are my favourite breakfast food – next time in NYC I sure will check the bagels 🙂
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Holiday calories, what are those??? 🙂 enjoy the bagels!
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Oh yeah
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New Yorker born and raised, and I say: amen.
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Amen
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I wanna come to New York now. Sooo hungry…
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In the mid 70’s, I was stationed at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. I would take the bus into Manhattan every weekend.
Since those days, I’ve lived in six other states and four different countries. I now live permanently in Washington State.
I haven’t had a real bagel since those days in the 70’s. You can’t GET real bagels outside of NY/NJ. Stores might CALL the round things “bagels”, but once you’ve learned what a real one is, you can always tell the phonies.
I wouldn’t have believed that I could miss a simple thing like a bagel, but oh, my, I do. To this day, I do.
Of course, I can balance that by saying, you all on the East Coast have no idea what real salmon tastes like. No, no, no…’lox’ isn’t real salmon. It’s farmed Atlantic salmon, so heavily processed that it loses any semblance of reality. Pacific coast salmon…wild caught…is unbeatable.
As for pizza, you’re right. There’s nothing to beat a NY pizza (and I’m not talking that Sbarro crap).
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Sbarro is awful
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Ooh salmon. Nice
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I’m all for a serious carb load, salt are one of my favorites but I can never find them!!! Bring bagels when you come to Florida??? 😀
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Salt and scallion cream cheese is near perfection
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Now my mouth is watering…. Thanks.
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Bagels to Florida? That depends on how many GREX reblogs you make ; )
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Tomato sauce on TOP of a pizza? Fuggedaboutit!
And bagels. They must be large enough to challenge your diet and chewy enough to challenge your fillings. Enough said.
Lox, cream cheese, red onions, fresh cracked pepper. Beer. Nirvana.
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Great points all around. Especially fuggedaboutit
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Damned straight. I’m from Denver and even I know what’s what.
Do it like you mean it or go home. Ya gotta bite into life.
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Denver and all Colorado are awesome
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I can’t get those here!!
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I’m sure
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4 Dozen made me lol. I’m having a bagel today, and I only get one a week (diet) so it’s a big deal. Funny post. 🙂
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Thanks. My brother’s request of 4 dozen made me laugh too
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These look yummy! I could really go for a NY bagel right about now. I think it’s a great idea to bring them to your family get together’s so they can enjoy them too. 🙂
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Where do you live?
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Texas!
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I love Texas. What part?
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East Texas
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Houston? I doesn’t an evening there once
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No, like the Tyler area!
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Oh god I love bagels so much. I’m from California and my favorite bagel of all time is a Lox with plain cream cheese and red onions and lettuce on an everything bagel. Or a turkey and sun dried tomato cream cheese on a cheese and jalapeno bagel! HOLY CRAP I WANT A BAGEL NOW.
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I prefer Montreal bagels. *duck and run*
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BLASPHEMY!!!
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The bagels, like the pizza, from NYC are just unparalleled. I’ve lived all over the U.S., and can say this with confidence. They say it is something about the water ??? Not sure that it matters. ☺
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