We have been buying bagels most weekends, for something like 15 or 20 years now, from a bagel store nearby. Recently the local specialty supermarket started selling bagels, so just for the heck of it we decided to try some from that store. THIS is one of the bagels! I have never seen a bagel that looks like this. My sense is that bagels are cut out of a rolled out sheet of dough with something like a cookie cutter. This looks like a strip of dough rolled out to a cigar shape, and then the ends stuck together. Is this a REAL bagel? Anyone else ever seen a bagel like this? By the way, the bagel was not as good as the ones from our favorite bagel store!
5 comments:
Ken-
You live in the center of the bagel universe and you are complaining that the grocery store bagel isn't as good as the bagel store bagel??? Duh! Us out in the hinterlands have to make do with round pieces of bread that are called bagels. And no, I've never seen a "seam" in it like that, but taste and texture seem more important to me. Even when we are 2,000 miles closer to NY (Chicago) the pumpernickel bagels at Jewel Grocery are a LOT better than anything in Tucson, but in NY, I wouldn't think you'd have to put up with it! -Dean
I think you need to back to the baker and inquire, even though you will be purchasing any more!
Joan
Thanks to both of you for the replies. "The center of the bagel universe" indeed! :-)
Lately, I have been wanting a good bagel. We had a very good little bagel shop just outside of our neighborhood but they closed and now there is a coffee shop in it's place but they don't do their own baking. The next best bagel place is a few miles from home but not worth the time and expense to buy a couple bagels for breakfast. So we do without. But we do have locally grown collards sold at a small outdoor vegetable stand nearby- does that count for something?
Ken: Collard greens or bagels? Either one is fine with me... :-) NOT!
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