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I Am Tired of Spreading Cream Cheese on a Bagel for Myself

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!

spew99 at 6:28PM on 03/06/08

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I Am Tired of Spreading Cream Cheese on a Bagel for Myself

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.

kass12 at 8:20AM on 06/16/08

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I Am Tired of Spreading Cream Cheese on a Bagel for Myself

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.)

karatemonkey at 10:47AM on 04/09/08

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I Am Tired of Spreading Cream Cheese on a Bagel for Myself

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.

Sara Nelson at 1:55AM on 04/04/08