We need to demand that Congress define "a bagel", and frozen cannot be included. Neither can anything purchased at a grocery or coffee shop. It must be purchased from a bagel bakery.
Oy gevalt this is repulsive. Next they'll do it with the "lox" already on it!
Doesn't matter, as long as it's real bacon, not just the stuff in the supermarket!
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Kelly,
Unless you are looking for an expensive decoration, why copper. Yes, it's a great conductor of heat, but even with the stainless interior it's a bitch to maintain. If you want to drop bucks go All-Clad or any other high end stainless ware.
As for me, I buy at TJ Maxx/Marshalls or at Restaurant Supply stores and use the savings on the food. YMMV
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I am in love with these bagels. I have tried the bagelfuls, cinnamon and strawberry. I am especially addicted to the strawberry flavor. It is a plain bagel with different kinds of cream cheese in the middle. My family and I have gone through 12-15 boxes of the strawberry bagelfuls. I could not find them at one store, so I bought regular bagels and strawberry cream cheese, and even though it was good, it was no where as good as the bagelfuls. They are great, easy, convenient, and delicious. The only problem is eating just 1, and not wanting to eat the whole box. The price is not too bad either, 4 bagels for $2.19.
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I love my Falk Culinair -http://www.copperpans.com/
They have a brushed copper exterior which is easy to maintain as it doesn't scratch when you scrub it. I've found I can use much lower heat as they are so conductive. Also practicly stick free. I don't put them in the dishwasher as they clean up so easily I haven't seen the point. Only drawback is they are heavy. I doubt I'll ever have to replace them unless someone steals them!
I have six pans and I love them. Barkeepers Helper keeps them looking new. The only gripe I have is the covers are not copper, I repeat, not copper. They're copper plated steel. after many cleanings the steel starts to show through. So the covers are a big rip off. I've tryed to get the company to do something about it, but they haven't responded.
I have to agree with Sara! I just tried one this morning (part of being an underpaid editor is never turning down free food) from the cart that was set up outside my office, and it actually inspired me to google it, I was so surprised by how good it was.
The thing is, it's weird, it doesn't actually taste like a bagel and cream cheese. I've seen Gothamist and Consumerist flipping out about how it's a sin to eat one of these in NYC, since we have some pretty awesome bagels here. But this isn't something I would eat if I were in the mood for a bagel and cream cheese. I would eat it if I were in the mood for a Bagelful. The cheese inside tastes more like the cheese in a blintz than straight up Philly cream cheese. it's almost sweet -- maybe it's the bagel dough they use? And I'm assuming they used a convection oven or something, because the crunch was amazing, while the inside stayed soft.
So thumbs up to this! Mind you, I'm not a very picky eater, but, being from here, I am a New York food snob (only our pizza and bagels are true Pizza and Bagels, blah blah), and I still thought this was great.
(Okay, maybe great is a little much. But it was definitely not the abomination everyone's making it out to be. And I probably wouldn't actually buy it, but if someone yelled at me "delicious and free!" on my way to work, waving it, I would definitely eat it.)
I actually tried them last week and they are awesome!! Made with real cream cheese. Texture is good and its not too soggy, doughy, or hard. I wish people would wait to try a product before judging it.
I dont really understand why some of you are so bent out of shape about a product that 99% of you have never tried. I have actually tried a product very similar to this and it was amazing! I did some research on this upcoming product and came to find out that not only are they using "real" cream cheese, but it is made with real bagel dough. If you dont want to take my word for it , i guess you will just have to wait and see the product before you critique it so harshly!
Pretty sure I just had a bagel with cream cheese this morning and "making it easier" was never something that crossed my mind while doing it. This is just a little bit absurd.
Nothing says director of marketing more than calling people consumers, and calling breakfast a meal occasion instead of a meal.
The absolute height of laziness. The whole world has bastardized the bagel to begin with, but that's for another topic.
Fake food. Fake nutrition. Real obesity.
After the invention of peanut butter slices, it was just a matter of time, really.
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