PrintTOO BIG BAGELS?
Can someone tell me why bagels have gotten to be the size of hubcaps? They just seem to get bigger and bigger except for the horrible frozen ones at the market which no one eats anyway. And why can noone bake a bagel like he ones of my youth? Crusty outside, chewy inside!
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7 Comments:
Ah no truer words have ever been spoken. I live in bagel wasteland. What is here is not authentic and what they make in most grovery stores are damp when I get to them and stale. I miss the bagel shops in NJ. To get a good bagel here I have to make them and when I do they eat them all.
This is a philosophical question. Kind of like why is a soft pretzel now as big as my skull.
JerzeeTomato at 1:39PM on 12/19/07
Amen! I don't want to eat a bagel as big as my head. NJ can't be as much of a bagel wasteland as where I live - Mississippi. One of the very few things I miss about living in the vicinity of NYC is the bagels! They were perfect in every way.
Library Lady at 3:50PM on 12/19/07
All food items now come in one size....the hubcap. It's ridiculous. Bagels, scones, muffins, etc., etc. I'm not a bagel expert, but I do miss the bagels from the Bagel Emporium in Miami across from the UM campus.
elaine nan at 5:06PM on 12/19/07
Try Montreal! Montreal bagels are a whole different genre of bagel than NY bagels in the first place, and much much smaller. Sweet too, and you can buy up a bag of a half dozen (poppy seed or sesame seed yum yum), a thing of cream cheese, and greedily devour it all in a park while listening to french-speakers take their morning walks.
Note: this may involve travel to Montreal.
Note: that travel is totally worth it.
veggiesattva at 7:06PM on 12/19/07
This is such a great question! I grew up in New York and an average bagel was..well...average. They were medium sized, chewy and even if you only ate one, they satisfied. In these days of Supersizing everything, you need a fork lift to pick up your bagel from the counter these days.
The wagon wheel bagel is just another statistic of this "bigger is better" mentality. "Why should I get a bagel from this guy when the guy down the block is selling one 10x the size for the same price?" Who cares that it's blown full of air and in texture, doesn't really resemble a bagel?
therealchiffonade at 4:47AM on 12/20/07
@veggiesattva: I totally agree! We bring back dozens of Montreal bagels when we go there! They're more like bialys- thinner dough and not squishy like American supersized bagels.
On another note, has anyone noticed that a lot of store-bought breads and baked goods have gone the way of bland? The breads I ate in Europe were so crusty, they made my gums sore. Here, you don't even need teeth to eat bread!
LiveToEat at 9:58AM on 12/20/07
During my freshman year of college, there was an AMAZING bagel place that we carried in bagels from every week. By my sophomore year it closed, even though they had the chewiest insides and crustiest outsides you could ever hope for :(
R.I.P. Bagelman's bagels.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 12:09PM on 12/20/07