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Do you scoop your bagels?

This is ridiculous. What's wrong with scooping out the bagel to be calorie-concious? I don't think there should be such a stigma to trying to watch what you eat. Because you know what, there is also a stigma with being heavy so really you can't win. If you want to eat the whole bagel, go ahead. But I think its crazy say that someone else shouldn't eat a bagel that way.
Furthermore, I am happy to scoop the bagel out myself but if I order it that way and the guy behind the counter does it, then great. Why should I feel bad about that? Because I am paying for something and I want to eat it a certain way? If there is a problem, then the establishment should either decline to scoop out my bagel or charge extra. They have a choice too.
Oh and I don't have a dog, but if I did it would be a big one.

sarag22 at 12:04PM on 07/02/08

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Cold Cereal Confessions

Cereal is my favorite food! In fact, my surprise bridal shower last year was cereal/breakfast themed.
I try to stay away from sugar cereals now, but past favorites have included cinnamon toast crunch, fruity pebbles, cocoa puffs... and I have gone through grape nuts, LIFE (ooh love that), and raisin bran phases. Right now I'm very in to Puffins in the morning! I usually like to mix 2 or 3 cereals and have with skim milk.
Has anyone ever been to this place? http://www.cereality.com/main.php
I made my friends go there with me on the way to a party in Philly (we are in NYC) and since then I have seen them in Newark Airport but that's it.

sarag22 at 3:29PM on 06/02/08

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Becoming a food professional

CookiePie - what a great story! I currently work in TV news, but I'm thinking seriously about making a change. I have thought about transitioning to the magazine industry, but it's something I need to learn more about.... I'd love to pick your brain if it's okay. My email address is saragartman at yahoo dot com. I hope to hear from you!

sarag22 at 12:51PM on 04/30/08

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Most embarrassing moment while entertaining?

I was trying a peanut sauce recipe for the first time, and it said to put the mixture in the microwave for 30 seconds. I thought it said 30 minutes, and actually I thought that was strange so I swear I double checked.. but guess not.. because I put it in for 30 minutes. After about 5 minutes, a horrible smell started coming from the microwave... needless to say no peanut sauce that night...

sarag22 at 1:31PM on 04/24/08

From Required Eating

Brownie Boxing: Ghirardelli vs. Jacques Torres

That's funny I just made the Ghirardelli Double Chocolate last night... I had forgotten about them... but now I can't wait to get back home :)

sarag22 at 2:19PM on 04/04/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way'

oatmeal! for breakfast every day. love it.

sarag22 at 1:44PM on 01/21/08

From Talk

Which is your ultimate comfort food?

cereal

sarag22 at 3:17PM on 10/24/07

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Do you scoop your bagels?

Amen.

bisbee at 6:39PM on 07/03/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

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.

feriorrenna at 6:32PM on 07/03/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

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.

bisbee at 12:46PM on 07/03/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

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!

HeartofGlass at 5:46AM on 07/03/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

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!

wookie at 10:45PM on 07/02/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

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.

deefine at 8:11PM on 07/02/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

I scoop my bagels. So what?

Amen to whomever said that eating a half a bagel is not the same thing.

Next can there be an overblown discussion about people who don't eat their pizza crusts?

Tokyorosa at 7:07PM on 07/02/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

@bobbob -- i know the bagel hole well, i used to live in the slope and liked their bagels a lot.

canadianfoodiegirl, montrealers don't need to scoop their bagels since their bagels are not ginormous poofy calorie bombs the way ours are.

cybercita at 6:56PM on 07/02/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

I scoop all bread, rolls, or bagels. I only like the crunchy crust. Period.

izatryt at 6:24PM on 07/02/08

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Do you scoop your bagels?

Scooping a bagel? never heard of anyone doing it before reading this thread. Seems to me how you eat it in the privacy of your home is your own business, but in public -- I don't think so. If the idea is to cut calories or for other dietary purposes, I would think you'd either eat only a portion or avoid them all together. Scooping a bagel in public would be, IMHO, as bad as double dipping...simply not done.

bubbamom at 6:15PM on 07/02/08