On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:53:37 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

>On 3/25/2012 9:16 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I see that New Yorkers are up in arms about Consumer Reports' ratings
>>> of bagels:
>>>
>>
>> Bagels? Who cares? Not everyone likes bagels. I find them to be too
>> tough and too doughy. Slather them with cream cheese and lox, doesn't
>> make them any less doughy. I don't understand the appeal.
>>
>> I do like "bagel chips" as a snack. But that's a horse of a different
>> colour
>>
>
>I venture to suggest that people who don't like bagels have never really
>had good ones.

Even those sold in NYC aren't very good anymore... the old bagel
bakers are dead and the newbies are only interested in profits, they
use much cheaper flour so naturally their bagels turn out gummy, they
also skimp on baking time, they sell them practically raw. Bagels
today are also expensive, I can remember buying bagels hot right out
of the oven for 50¢/doz, and they were 50% larger.