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For some reason bagels failed to take off in Oz, not surprised, have tried them numerous times whilst visiting the US, a bit like eating a doughy week old bread roll with filling.
I enjoy most American culinary offerings, bagels! nah, sweet potato with sugar and cinnamon! nah, scrapple! double nah.
"(Scrapple is typically made of hog offal, such as the head, heart, liver, and other trimmings, which are boiled with any bones attached (often the entire head), to make a broth. Once cooked, bones and fat are removed, the meat is reserved, and (dry) cornmeal is boiled in the broth to make a mush."
Perhaps these foods are revenge on us Aussies for inflicting Vegemite on the world.
Bagels are delicious, I make them at home whenever I can, and bought plenty of them when I was in the US. Lots of places to buy bagels here in Sydney and I know of a few excellent bagel choices in Hobart. Maybe they didn't take off, but you can certainly buy a tasty bagel in Australia.
For some reason bagels failed to take off in Oz, not surprised, have tried them numerous times whilst visiting the US, a bit like eating a doughy week old bread roll with filling.
Never been to the US but that's exactly my experience with them here. Figured they must have lost something in the trip overseas if they were so popular in the States, but maybe they didn't.
I've not been to the US either and most of the bagels I've tried here have been diabolical. I think the problem is that you need to go somewhere that sells a lot of of bagels and have the ability to keep them restocked throughout the day. I have made bagels also and the quality nosedives pretty quickly after cooling down. I imagine most of the bagels we try are the bagelry equivalent of a cafe that keeps the doser fully topped up all day long
Of course they're not really bagels, not in the traditional form anyway. Baking a firm, flavoured bread roll with a hole in it and calling it a bagel seems to be all you have to do to sell 'bagels' these days. They're yet another example of an extremely bastardised ethnic food and I'm sure anyone that doesn't like them hasn't actually tried a real, traditional bagel.
I've not been to the US either and most of the bagels I've tried here have been diabolical. I think the problem is that you need to go somewhere that sells a lot of of bagels and have the ability to keep them restocked throughout the day. I have made bagels also and the quality nosedives pretty quickly after cooling down. I imagine most of the bagels we try are the bagelry equivalent of a cafe that keeps the doser fully topped up all day long
Quality nose-diving, absolutely. Make bagels when in company, eat within the hour!* (Or freeze, and toast)
*not literally, they're just too tasty to last very long.
They're yet another example of an extremely bastardised ethnic food and I'm sure anyone that doesn't like them hasn't actually tried a real, traditional bagel.
I've tried em in various locations in the US, particularly New York.
As I said earlier, very ordinary fare, I'd need to be hungry to eat one voluntarily.
Trust me L3N, they never had much to lose, pretty ordinary fare.
But, Al enjoys em! so there ya go, one mans meat as they say.
Oh! and while I'm about it, what the hell is a schmear???? sounds like something you may stumble across in soiled underwear.
Well, never surprising when you and I disagree on something Yelta!!
Not that I knew what a schmear was, but fun to discover that it is legitimately bagel (or rather, yiddish) related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmear
Thought I'd chime in on the bagel front.
I am from Montreal, which arguably have the best bagel places in all North America.
A good bagel will not decrease in quality significantly when cooled down, but if not frozen or consumed within 12-24 hours, will definitely have a noticeable change in texture and thus quality.
I may be biased, but I believe bagels should be baked in a wood-fired oven...and sesame bagels are the true legitimate bagel whereas other "flavored" bagels are just...no.
You definitely can not say you dislike bagels until you've tried a fresh (or freshly frozen and re-toasted) Montreal bagel.
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