The Old Bear wrote:

> [...]
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>When my son was a baby, he used to go with me to the House of Bagels=20
>in San Francisco and the woman behind the counter would always give=20
>him a tiny "cocktail bagel" to teethe on.
>
>(BTW, vis-a-vis that other thread about bakery naming, the House of=20
>Bagels' name wasn't that unusual, but it had a slogan on its sign:=20
>"When is a seagull not a seagull... When it's a bay gull!" Oy!)
>
Yup Bear, quite good, at least 8 years ago and so were the Schmiers.

AFAIR they were in the vicinity of Polk & Geary up towards California=20
and used to be a regular treat in our office when I ran a training=20
program for UAW out of the old Jack Tar, then Cathedral Hill Hotel, now=20
something else, on Van Ness & Geary.

I don't think that any city can beat SF, as far as the food is=20
concerned. Too bad I moved into this forsaken hellhole.
All you have to do is check the bread isles in the Supermarkets and=20
count the number of junkfood places if you want to know what people eat=20
in any given city.

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Sincerly,

C=3D=A6-)=A7 H. W. Hans Kuntze, CMC, S.g.K. (_o_)
http://www.cmcchef.com ,
"Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it Happened"
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