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Bagels - join the movement for REAL ones! |
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I know.. don't I have better things to do? Naw .. not tonite. Ok.. here's what happened: Was at DCA today and wanted an iced espresso and a bagel. Starbuck's is closed for remodeling so I went to .. another place. It was hard to tell if the bagel was real - you know, even CLOSE to a New York bagel - by looking through the glass. I didn't bother asking. It's like asking a restaurant if they use real turkey in their turkey sandwiches and being told they do and getting served pressed turkey. I come from a 'poultry family' - no jokes please - and I know the difference. So.. I got my order and felt the bagel and shuddered. It was like Wonder Bread cut in circles and then piled one on top of another .. ugh ugh ugh. And the espresso had no taste. (Wrote to the chain and told them that they should either not call those things bagels or get a new supplier and to PLEASE have real espresso .. not dark water!) I then did a bit of research and found out the American Bagel Assn. is in .. DAYTON, OH - my home town! And then I got a definition of bagel: >>From: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | Date: 2005 | Author: DAVID A. BENDER  - bagel A circular bread roll with a hole in the middle, made from fermented wheat flour dough (including egg), which is boiled before being baked. A Jewish speciality; the first recorded mention of beygls was in Krakow (Poland) in 1610, in regulations that stated they were to be given as a gift to women in childbirth.<<
It's the boiling first that is important. I emailed my husband and a friend and we think there should be a movement for GOOD (read 'real') bagels. Who wants to join us? Anytime you get a fake bagel, write and complain. Explain the boiling thing. Explain the crusty outside, chewy inside. It's absurd what people are passing off as bagels. I guess it's 'cause there are people who eat at Taco Bell and think it's "Mexican food" or the people who go to Vegas and think they've been to Paris or New York or Egypt! Enough!
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in General Discussion Topics by JoanEisenstodt, 08-01-09 17:57
