What Happened To Bagels?

Bagels are an ideal food item -- crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside, and a perfect vehicle for cream cheese and lox. But ONLY for cram cheese and lox! I just stopped into Einstein Bagels at the Denver airport (on my way home from a business trip to the Great Plains) and was mortified at what they sell there. The only things that belong in a bagel are sesame seeds, poppy seeds, onion, garlic, egg, and salt. No raisins, no chocolate chips, no green chile, and no asiago cheese. And I'm not even going to begin with how wrong the bagel dog or egg-and-bacon bagel sandwish is! Somehow they have done away with all of the real bagel flavors and now just specialize in the totally unacceptable. Though as I walked away with my plain bagel and plain cream cheese, I started to wonder if I may have just gotten old and crochety.

Comments

[Sadia]

Nope, not old. Perhaps crotchety. ;)

I recall that you, Sara and Kari once accused me of being a bad Jew when I put cinnamon sugar on a bagel in college. :)

[Emily]

I remember that too! As far as I'm concerned, nothing sweet belongs anywhere near a bagel.