I scoop my bagels because I like the outside much better than the inside. It has never occured to me to have the bagel guy scoop the doughy part out but to each his/her own. The world might be a better place if we worried less about bagel scoopers and more about "real" problems.
Must be charred with
Spicy brown mustard, chopped onions, relish
or spicy brown mustard and saurkraut
or deli mustard and potato salad
I love cottage cheese... large curd 4% is best but I'll eat others
Mia Rose- I love it with tuna and sardines
Miss Molly- I love it with Catalina, try cottage cheese, Catalina dressing and grated sharp cheddar cheese- looks gross, but is so delicious
and SRBrooklyn- cottage cheese with egg noodles, cinnamon and sugar is comfort food for breakfast
jello
spam
margarine
cool-whip
wonder bread
miracle whip
frog legs
minute rice
tarragon
watercress
Steamed littleneck clams, lobster, grilled corn, lots of melted butter, homemade coleslaw and double chocolate cookies.
Salt, of course, or Spike seasoning or Montreal steak seasoning
Every year I take my NYC 4th grade class to a local farm to learn about colonial hearth cooking- we make vegetable soup and cornbread with butter. After the clumps of fat (butter) begin to form, pour off the liquid (buttermilk! and it is useable) and use a wooden spoon to knead the butter and squeeze out any additional liquid. Then use cold water to wash the butter so it will keep better. It does taste amazing and the kids are always enthralled that they cooked this meal, without modern technology, no less.
My dad's specialty was a split-cheese sandwich- lightly toast white bread, make a slit almost to the bottom but keep three edges intact, spread inside with mustard and slip in sliced imported swiss cheese and then pan-fry in butter. Quite delicious to this day!
Molten chocolate cake made with Valrohna and Vanilla Haagen Daz ice cream
For some reason, whenever any of us are sick we crave Wonton Soup or Yat Gaw Mein (Chinese Noodle Soup with Roast Pork). I think I started this when I was young and my kids and husband just picked up on it!
I scoop bagels.
...because I like to eat the soft, fluffy innards first.
Seems like this is something the consumer could easily do for him/herself. What if the kid behind the counter scoops too much? Ask for another bagel with less scoopage because the current one is ruined? Or keep returning it for more scoopage because enough hasn't been removed yet?
Personally, I don't care how much or little of a particular food a person wants to eat, or how picky they want to be about trimming the food. But really, at some point, you just need to do the trimming yourself. I mean, people who don't eat pizza crusts don't ask for their crusts to be removed for them, do they?
Bisbee - that's *exactly* what my problem is - these women are having the clerks hollow their own bagels out for them. It's like the epitome of laziness - no wonder you need to cut the calories if you're too lazy to shuck your own bagel fluff.
Interestingly I noticed that no-one commented on
"women are asking to have their bagels hollowed out to cut calories"
I guess my problem is being at the counter and holding up the line so someone can do that for you.
- just a thought here- instead of asking someone else to do your hollowing out of the bagel- do it yourself and burn those 3 calories.
Wow, I never realized people would get so passionate about this--I still don't see how scooping a bagel is less caloric than eating half, though, and it is harder to estimate how much you've lost.
As for puffy white things that people have been inveighing against, though--those things are not bagels, and I do not eat them at all--they are inner tubes! Bagels are small and dense!
I have never thought of scooping a bagel, but if that is how some people like it then what's the big deal? We all have our food quirks, right?
@Tokyorosa--LOL, I thought exactly the same thing about the pizza crust issue!
1. Okra
2. Miracle Whip
3. Whole milk
4. Spam
5. Olive loaf
6. any ketchup but Heinz
7. Plain yellow mustard
8. mango
9. hot cereal (oatmeal, cream of wheat)
10. kale
Oh, this is fun!
1. Canned entrees (ie. spaghetti-oh's)
2. Cool Whip
3. Miracle Whip
4. Durian fruit
5. Spam (or any canned meat for that matter)
6. Any deli "meat" that you can stick your finger in, and it will congeal back to its original state---I've seen it; it's disgusting.
7. Any creme filled cookies (Oreos or those nasty oatmeal cakes)
8. Bitter melon
9. Sweetened applesauce, and most other canned fruits (I do like the applesauce with no sugar added)
10. Fake caviar...I have to have to real thing.
1. margarine
2. fat free anything
3. eggs from any grocery store in the 5 boroughs ( only place to get eggs is at greenmarket. flying pigs, millport dairy or knoll krest)
4. processed cheese
5. canned fruit
6. pickles (i'm a chef who hates pickles i can't help it, i will never change)
7. oreos, just hate them always have.
8. jelly. my pb&j sandwiches have always just been pbS
9. anything containing aspartame.
10. white bread. it tastes like nothing. give me a good whole wheat sourdough or whole grain anyday.
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