Where is the ideal location to eat a bagel?

Milski

Bagels are delicious and easy to transport. What is your ideal bagel spot?

Quetzi

Transit (specify)

The ideal place to eat a bagel is while walking - does that count as transit or other?

Pinfeldorf

Other (specify)

In my mouth is the proper place to eat a bagel.

Milski

Bed

I would consider that transit, unless you are walking on a treadmill

Quetzi

Transit (specify)

Yeah my ideal bagel is purchase from a cafe or deli, toasted with cream cheese, and eating it while walking somewhere else to go do errands or whatever

I also enjoy like, a bagel sandwich, bacon egg and cheese sort of thing, but those are a sit down affair (so either kitchen or restaurant, depending)

Pinfeldorf

Other (specify)

I really dig a whole wheat bagel with poppyseeds, medium toast with cream cheese and a dash of pepper. Really basic, but totally delicious.

Milski

Bed

Straightzi wrote: »

Yeah my ideal bagel is purchase from a cafe or deli, toasted with cream cheese, and eating it while walking somewhere else to go do errands or whatever

I also enjoy like, a bagel sandwich, bacon egg and cheese sort of thing, but those are a sit down affair (so either kitchen or restaurant, depending)

I would agree with this but I had to vote bed because the best bagel I ever had was waking up to a glass of pedialyte and a hangover bagel prepared by an extremely kind friend after a house party. Truly a bro who knew how to fry an egg and put it inside a bagel.

Lasbrook

Montreal, I’m told.

Solar

Kitchen

One of my favourite things is a bagel, toasted, with philadelphia spread on top, then some smoked salmon, avocado, lemon juice and dill

And I eat that in the kitchen

tynic

Other (specify)

Standing on a bridge overlooking some part of Manhatten

Lasbrook wrote: »

Montreal, I’m told.

My sister loves Montreal bagels, personally I find them unnecessarily hard on the old mastication muscles.
They're basically a less fluffy variant of parisian bagels.

see317

Office

To be honest, I don't think I've ever eaten a bagel outside of an office setting.
Like, they send out an email saying "I got bagels for us in the break room" I'm all about it.

But to purchase bagels on my own? Seems weird.
Like, if I'm going to buy a bagel, why wouldn't I get a muffin instead? Or a donut?

Shorty

I make my own bagels

I don't know if they'd satisfy a new yorker but they're in that style and they're both the best bagels I've ever had, and better than any I can buy locally

#pipe

Larlar

@Larlar has bagel opinions.

I once advised him to get bagels in New York and afterwards he told me New York bagels were pitiful gutter trash compared to Montreal bagels (paraphrased)

tynic

Other (specify)

I avoid baking my own bagels purely because I don't need to seed my apartment with that kind of carb-laden landmine field, but it's almost worth it to have that super fresh bagel experience.

Pinfeldorf

Other (specify)

Another good way to eat a bagel is lightly toasted with butter and prickly pear jelly.

Vargar

Kitchen

By Kitchen, I only mean standing over the sink as normal people do.

Duke 2.0

Larlar

In the period of time between clocking into work and actually being needed for work.

Rorshach Kringle

Transit (specify)

Shorty wrote: »

I make my own bagels

I don't know if they'd satisfy a new yorker but they're in that style and they're both the best bagels I've ever had, and better than any I can buy locally

i am agreeing with this because i have tried to buy bagels locally

Quetzi

Transit (specify)

Yeah I've tried buying bagels in Oregon and I can't imagine you've got much better up in Seattle

Usagi

Other (specify)

NYC, preferably either on the train or walking from whatever deli to wherever is next on the agenda

edit: OR walking three steps and then sitting on a curb or a stoop because you're too hungover to function until you get the bagel and blisteringly hot coffee into your body

Rorshach Kringle

Transit (specify)

oh and for me, specifically, it's buying a bagel because the pretzel place is closed and i am waiting for my bus

tynic

Other (specify)

Fuck it I'm gonna go eat a bagel right now
(just a supermarket one)
(but it's from a pretty good local supermarket, so they're usually decent)

miscellaneousinsanity

best place to eat a bagel is sitting at the window counter of frankel's delicatessen, but that's not very viable for the time being

Mysst

Other (specify)

there is no ideal place to eat a bagel when a donut exists

tynic

Other (specify)

Mysst wrote: »

there is no ideal place to eat a bagel when a donut exists

They're completely orthogonal options! A donut is a sugar-laden grease bomb you consume to feel bad about yourself. A bagel is lunch.

Mysst

Other (specify)

tynic wrote: »

Mysst wrote: »

there is no ideal place to eat a bagel when a donut exists

They're completely orthogonal options! A donut is a sugar-laden grease bomb you consume to feel bad about yourself. A bagel is lunch.

because it takes half an hour to eat!

Rorshach Kringle

Transit (specify)

get better at eating bagels, @mysst

3cl1ps3

Office

A good bagel with cream cheese is one of the finest breakfasts there is.

Lasbrook

tynic wrote: »

Standing on a bridge overlooking some part of Manhatten

Lasbrook wrote: »

Montreal, I’m told.

My sister loves Montreal bagels, personally I find them unnecessarily hard on the old mastication muscles.
They're basically a less fluffy variant of parisian bagels.

I’m just a dumb Texas boy who doesn’t have much frame of reference but I thought they were pretty good. Even if I’m a heathen for not liking sesame seed ones.

I’m sure I’ve been in donut shops that make their own bagels but if I’m in a donut shop I’m getting kolaches.

Mysst

Other (specify)

Rorshach Kringle wrote: »

get better at eating bagels, @mysst

get better at making them! a donut is complete as is, no additions required.

there's those bagels are basically cinnamon rolls, those are ok i guess

Quetzi

Transit (specify)

Savory bagels only, if I wanted sweet shit I'd eat a donut

Uriel

I do not like bagels

They are like pretzels but chewier and often covered in gross nonsense.

ouzaru

Bed

Uriel wrote: »

I do not like bagels

They are like pretzels but chewier and often covered in gross nonsense.

Excuse me sir, but my toenail clippings are not gross nonsense.

Munkus Beaver

Other (specify)

Bagels are good shit and you can prep them in any of a thousand different ways

Uriel

sarukun wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

I do not like bagels

They are like pretzels but chewier and often covered in gross nonsense.

Excuse me sir, but my toenail clippings are not gross nonsense.

Talk about an "everthing" bagel

*mugs for camera*

*badum tsh*

Munkus Beaver

Other (specify)

My favorite bagels are probably breakfast sammich bagels.

I used to get them on occasion and I cannot remember where, it certainly wasn't in the city i live in that's for sure

#pipe

Larlar

I used to eat a bagel for breakfast everyday until my doctor was like "hey that's your entire allocation of carbs for the day in just one bagel"

Bagels are like 4 slices of bread smooshed together.

I do still sometimes get one from the local Jewish deli as a weekend treat, though, with a herb garlic schmear of course

Uriel

They should bring back stuffed bagel bites.

They were like regular bagel bites but instead of pizza on a bagel the pizza was inside the bagel's skin, like it was in a horrible teleportation accident.

MulysaSempronius

Other (specify)

A park. Get one at a deli, walk to the nearest park and sit on the bench.

MulysaSempronius

Other (specify)

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

My favorite bagels are probably breakfast sammich bagels.

I used to get them on occasion and I cannot remember where, it certainly wasn't in the city i live in that's for sure

Egg and cheese on an everything bagel. Bacon egg and cheese if it's from a halal cart.

Uriel

#pipe wrote: »

I used to eat a bagel for breakfast everyday until my doctor was like "hey that's your entire allocation of carbs for the day in just one bagel"

Bagels are like 4 slices of bread smooshed together.

I do still sometimes get one from the local Jewish deli as a weekend treat, though, with a herb garlic schmear of course

4 slices of bread is too many carbs?

Wtf are you supposed to eat instead?