On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 8:29:53 PM UTC-7, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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.

We have a bagel shop here that makes NYC bagels. Same methodology. They are excellent NY bagels. Scroll through the pictures. The guys who own it are from New York.

http://www.bagelrybellingham.com/