New Yorkers horrified by 'crime' of bagels sliced like bread

[brooklynite]

The Guardian

A man who brought his colleagues bagels sliced like bread is getting an earful from New Yorkers and social media.

Alex Krautmann on Monday tweeted a photo of his bagels and called the vertical slices “the St Louis secret”. Krautmann said it creates more slices and more surface area for cream cheese. He said the few remaining slices make nice bagel chips with hummus.

“It was a hit!” he wrote.

However, Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader and a born-and-raised New Yorker, wasn’t buying it.

He tweeted: “On behalf of the New York Delegation: St Louis, fuhgeddaboudit.”

Link to tweet

[UniteFightBack]

1. Wow I never even thought of doing that. nt

[csziggy]

16. I've doen that when supplying bagels for snacks to groups

It lets people have smaller servings and makes the bagel slices more "finger food" and easier to eat as a two-three bite snack.

Another benefit - the left overs can be toasted in the oven and made into bagel chips which are perfect for snacking later.

Damn - I haven't had a bagel in over a year. Now I want one really bad. Maybe next week - tomorrow I have my back operation and need to eat light today.

[UniteFightBack]

18. Absolutely! I think it's a great idea and this New Yawker approves !! nt

[Sherman A1]

33. Good luck on the operation

hope it goes well.

[Sherman A1]

2. Just finished a bread sliced

Chocolate Chip Bagel at Panera. It was just fine.

[Sanity Claws]

6. Anything called Chocolate Chip Bagel deserves to be mistreated like that.

Bagels are bread, not pastries.

[Sherman A1]

26. It is obvious that you have never

tried this delicious breakfast treat. We must broaden our horizons

[3_Limes]

7. Watch yourself!

That may be a ban-able offense!!

You might wanna keep such criminality to yourself in the future!

[Sherman A1]

25. I like living on the edge

[leftynyc]

20. Blech

Choc chip bagels? That sounds thoroughly unappetizing. Did you get that in NY?

[Sherman A1]

24. No

in St. Louis

[leftynyc]

41. One place closeby my old office

did some very weird things with bagels - strawberry, blueberry, jalepeno peppers - it went out of business in around 6 months.

[Codeine]

49. Jalapeo cheese bagels are pretty popular

here in Southern California. I have pretty much settled on the everything bagel (“garbage bagels” in my household) as my go-to choice.

Blueberry is weird? I thought they were pretty common.

[leftynyc]

50. NYers consider anything sweet

in a bagel weird. I can't even eat cinnamon raisin and I love cinnamon. Most bagel places have plain, poppy, sesame, everything, whole wheat and bialys. That's about it. If everything bagels didn't have salt, I'd love them. I'm not a lover of salt.

[Codeine]

52. Savory is definitely the way to go.

I’ve had a few sweet ones and they’re just not right.

[gldstwmn]

30. I love their cinnamon crunch bagels. Yum.

[Kurt V.]

3. well, when we deep fried ravioli it caught on. just sayin

[Sherman A1]

27. Indeed

Had that last night for dinner! Great as always.

[Takket]

4. This is disgraceful

The person that defiled these bagels and also the “cutter” who went along with it should be doxxed and lose their jobs. This is just going to far.

[iscooterliberally]

14. It's like eating pizza with a fork, an impeachable offense.

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[mr_lebowski]

34. To be fair, with hands that small ... not sure he could pick up such a large slice ... (nt)

[WeekiWater]

39. I eat pizza with a knife and fork.

Have since I was a kid.

[shanny]

45. Horrors!

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0ect4f/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-me-lover-s-pizza-with-crazy-broad

[WeekiWater]

46. Great segment. Thanks for sharing it. NT

[shanny]

47. my pleasure

[iscooterliberally]

48. Ha! I think we can all forgive you.

Besides, you're in no danger of impeachment.

[3_Limes]

5. Whomever it was that did this dastardly deed

Should be kept away from innocent bagels for a long time.

A disgrace!! SAD!

[flor-de-jasmim]

8. You can't make a decent lox + cream cheese bagel sandwich with that.

Show a deep lack of appreciation for the bagel and its cultural traditions. And I can't even imagine a chocolate chip bagel. My dad used to make a mournful sigh when my mom ate cinnamon raisin bagels. They were already a bit beyond the pale. And don't get me started on blueberry blintzes!

[Daninmo]

9. bagels

St. Louis gave us so much from toasted raviolis, ice cream cones, etc. Maybe NY isn't ready for great new ideas?

[Sherman A1]

29. It would appear that

they are not open to experiencing this delightful treat.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Normally, I automatically roll my eyes at obnoxious New York bagel snobbery.....

....(especially that whole "Our water makes our bagels taste better!" bullshit).....


....but I do have to reluctantly agree with them on this particular point.

That's just no way to cut a bagel. Basically it's just regular bread right now.

[gratuitous]

15. New York bagel snobbery

Second only to Chicago hot dog snobbery, but I could be persuaded otherwise.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. There's also the related cousin....

....New York pizza snobbery.

And yes, Chicago hot dog snobbery is pretty fierce itself, and God help anyone who mentions the k-word when it comes to hot dog condiments.

[GoCubsGo]

32. You might not want to tell New Yorkers about St. Louis-style pizza, then.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/st-louis-style-pizza-missouri-provel

[gratuitous]

38. Yes, the k-word

Which is why I always request catsup for my dog.

[mr_lebowski]

36. From what I've heard there's also some serious Philly Cheese Steak snobbery ...

In a certain large New Jersey suburb ...

I mean, to the extent that 'snobbery' is actually possible there

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. Even as a native Marylander, I will cringe at the occasional crabcake snobbery from my peers. nt

[Amishman]

11. Spiral slice it, unravel, apply cream cheese, roll it back up

Bagel roll!

[ellie]

12. I, too, am horrified

and I am not a New Yorker. Who would do such a thing?

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Sliced bagel toast w/a soupcon of melted better are just the thing for that spinach-artichoke dip...

once you've tried that, tortilla chips just aren't good enough anymore.

[meow2u3]

17. Slicing bagels like bread is SACRILEGE!!

BTA, I was born and raised in New York.

[Sherman A1]

31. Them Thar

be fight'n words there Pardner........

[leftynyc]

19. Fresh bagels are only sliced in half

The leftovers at the end of the day, slightly stale, are often sliced like that in the picture, baked again so they get hard and then used as crackers (called bagel chips). What I'm seeing in that picture would get laughed out of any NYers home or office.

[Yavin4]

21. Slicing bagels like bread is the truest sign of an once great nation in decline.

That and that Tan suit.

[procon]

22. I like to slice bagels that way, but a little

thicker than those pictured. They are easier to eat and the ratio of cream cheese to bagel is more evenly distributed. It's hard to find unsliced bagels unless you make a special order at a bakery

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. One of my favorite treats is a cinammon raisin bagel

sliced like bread with a sweet cream cheese, like honey walnut.

And as someone else has pointed out, having the bagels bread sliced is a great way to bring them into an office, because even an entire half bagel might be more than someone wants to eat.

[Codeine]

35. Half the appeal of a bagel

is the thick, chewy texture, and slicing it like this seems a guaranteed way to mess that up. I’m not looking for a “better ratio of cream cheese to bagel” because a bagel is about the bagel, not how much cream cheese you can ram down your gullet.

The good news is that I have some everything bagels from our local bagel shop at home and I’m ready to devour one after work. This whole topic made me ravenous!

[JHB]

37. If he got them from Olive Garden from a pit bull moon-bomber...

...it would be DU thread-fodder perfection.

[smirkymonkey]

42. And also, he was an uncircumcised vegan

[JHB]

43. Don't bread crumbs have to be involved somewhere?

And "he" would have to be "she", because breast-feeding also has to be part of the mix. Plus kids in restaurants.

[smirkymonkey]

44. *snicker*

[dewsgirl]

53. I saw the original tweet yesterday. It would never have

Occurred to me to do this.