>Agree with everything EXCEPT the toasted part. Yuck! Give
>me a fresh (crispy outside, chewy inside) bagel that I don't
>have to toast.
>
>sf

On the day of Christmas eve someone brought me two dozen bagels fresh from
Queens, NY; half plain, half sesame... perfectly crisp crust and chewy
inside... it'd be criminal to toast them. I'll eat them with cream cheese but
prefer them slathered with unsalted butter. I couldn't possibly eat them all
before they'd go stale so I froze half... those I will toast, but lightly. I
like those with butter and fresh sliced American Cheese. I don't much care for
cream cheese and lox on a bagel, I much prefer a schmear and lox (real lox, not
nova) on a bialy... so sue me.


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