On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:18:46 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
> wrote:

>On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 6:40:12 AM UTC-7, John Kuthe wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 8:08:27 AM UTC-5, wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 10:33:00 PM UTC-4, John Kuthe wrote:
>> > > YUM!!
>> > >
>> > > John Kuthe...
>> >
>> > Panera, huh? Quite a shitty choice for a bagel, even in St. Louis.
>>
>> Yeah, their Asiago Cheese bagels I noticed are way too fluffy and airy to be considered a real bagel, but still yummy! Others of Panera's bagels are not quite as bad as this too. And better than NO bagels!
>
>I can be ostracized for saying this. But I don't like "traditional" bagels. They are hockey pucks to me. I LIKE the big fluffy softer bagels like Panera. So sue me.

You probably never ate a real bagel, they don't exist outside of NYC,
and are best eaten less than an hour out of the oven. The bagels
outside of NYC are indeed hocky pucks. There's no such thing as a
"traditional" bagel, it's a NYC bagel or it's not a bagel.