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  • From: Lisa Drake <ldrake AT pobox.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: why you should never move to Boston
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:00:25 GMT

Chocolate chip bagels are just...wrong.

In article <200601051229.k05CTMpY003887 AT eddings.acpub.duke.edu>,
bendy AT duke.edu (bendy) wrote:

> Chris Calloway wrote:
>
> > I guess it's more like a doughnut than you think. As far as I'm
> > concerned, a doughnut, meaning a KK, should be eaten within five
> > minutes of coming out of the oven.
>
> It is my belief that the bagels success is just a case of natural
> selection; at a time when a big segment of the population started
> believing that a daily doughnut was a bad thing, they found a doughy
> circle that came in several different flavors that was good with coffee
> and could be eaten in its stead.
>
> The eventual demise of the salt bagel will be confirmation of this
> theory. I'm surprised there hasn't been an echinacea bagel. Or maybe
> there has, out west.
>
> I spent most of the 90s living in a Pittsburgh neighborhood that had two
> local, independent bagel shops. For a while, I lived above the larger of
> the two- I remember getting bugged all winter by this noise, an
> electronic *scrunch...scrunch...scrunch* that sounded like a giant dot
> matrix printer. In the spring, the back door to kitchen was open, and I
> finally saw what it was; a machine, sorta like a tennis ball serving
> machine, that was hooked up to the hoppers of bagels. Employees could
> dial in a order- 12 poppy, 4 sesame, 4 plain - and it would suck the
> appropriate number *scrunch...scrunch...scrunch* from the appropriate
> hopper and shoot them into a bag. Then the bags would get delivered to
> the offices that had made the order.
>
> Anyways, this shop supplied most of the city, and the other served just
> the neighborhood, and you could hear the mumblings about which was
> better, but both served dense, three-inch rolls that came in about seven
> flavors, all savory, none sweet.
>
> First, both shops started in with the extra flavors- chocolate chip was
> one of the first. Then Bruggers moved in, and the smaller shop closed.
> Chesapeake moved into the smaller shop's storefront. All the chains did
> decent business, and eventually the old shop closed it's neighborhood
> store, retreating to is large-scale bakery in the 'burbs and going
> wholesale.
>
> A traditional bagel isn't like a rock in the stomach first thing in the
> morning, 'cause it's only got a bit of cream cheese on it, and it's a
> small portion. It's a pleasant little buffer for black coffee.
>
> At any rate, if a local bagel shop can't make it in a neighborhood that
> supports a kosher Chinese restaurant, it's folly to expect dense,
> crunchy, thin-schmear-of-cream-cheese bagels to survive in these torrid
> climes.
>
> And if the 90s made it through a bagel expansion and swing revival
> without a prominent cover of Slim Galliard's *Dunking Bagels* the war
> was over before it began.
>
> - bendy
>
>
>
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