why I'm an anti-cream cheese bagel

Dairy is the root of all evil in the world!

:silly:

and boy do I LOVE dairy...cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, chocolate cheese....give me cheese and I am a happy person!

but a chocolate cheese cake is nice compromise! :)

;-)

cream cheese, red current jelly.....Life.

STALE F***ING BREAD. TASTE MUST BE DISGUISED BY BUTTLOADS OF CREAM CHEESE. :puke:

Because where I'm from, in Philly, there is NOTHING BETTER than an everything bagel piled high with cream cheese, lox, cucumber, red onion, and a pinch of sea salt and fresh-ground black pepper.

Here in Virginia, they sell these things...it SAYS "bagels" on the packaging, but they aren't anything like actual bagels. I don't know who they think they're trying to fool--maybe the poor souls who've never had an ACTUAL bagel and so don't know what they're missing.

Anyway, point is, if you've had bagels from 95% of the country, you're probably right. If you've had bagels from New York, Philly, New Jersey, and you STILL don't like them---well then, there might be something wrong with you. :)

Cat

I'm from Syracuse, NY and our bagels are pretty damnned good too. Real bagels at that, too.

I can't stand bagels no matter what you slop on them.

And I'm in heaven.

I don't understand how bagel haters can possibly think that there are no regional differences between bagels (I've seen bagels down south I wouldn't feed to my dog), yet so many would be quick to claim that it's impossible to get decent barbeque north of the Mason Dixon. A good bagel is a beautiful thing.

Hey, there is nothing worse than a stale bagel. Tough as a Goodyear tire!

But there are some good bagels here in Dallas - of the easily accessible (ie lot's of 'em) places my first choice would be Benny's.

Now, y'all can keep the cream cheese. What kind of horrible torture to a poor bagel is that? I prefer eating them with fruit, and just a wee bit (maybe 1/2 teaspoon) of butter (butter, not hydrogenated oil) spread on carefully.

Oh, and make mine a sesame :)

so many are so very enchanted with the original packaging?

;-)

:hi:

You hunka, hunka burnin' bagel you!!

is a soy-based product sold at health food stores that tastes remarkably like the original substance, but with a little more tang and a lot less GI distress. It's especially good with a thin sliver of red onion on top.

I agree. Dairy is horrible stuff when it comes out of a cow.

regulah. no, make that a kaiser roll w/butter (see 'jersey city')

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...let's talk about that nasty soy shit. YUCK!!! Give me Cheese Cake, Cottage Cheese, American Cheese, and MILK...FROM A COW....and I'll show you a happy girl.
Duckie

No one makes cheese like Americans!

Then you'd be anti- cream cheese AND bagles *blech*

:P