Sheldon wrote:

>
> Unless they're purchased in NYC they ain't bagels, I'm serious... I've
> tried bagels in about all 48 and NONE are even close to a real bagel...
> NOT EVEN CLOSE... they are just nondescript rolls with a hole. And
> even a perfect NYC bagel once it's been out of the oven more than 60
> minutes it's no longer a bagel... it's just a stale hunk of dough. And
> there is no such thing as a frozen bagel (Lenders ain't any kind of
> bagel), a NYC pigeon has to be starving to peck one, and even then
> won't let it's neighbors see its pecker pecking. And so, unless yoose
> come to NYC you can't have a bagel... and Staten Island doesn't count,
> that's part of Noo Joisey anyways.

Montreal bagels are pretty good too. There are a lot of places that sell
these round things with holes in the middle, and being shaped like a bagel
is enough for some people to think there are bagels, but that is where the
similarity ends.