Bagels! Your Preference?

[smirkymonkey]

Tell us what your favorite bagels are. Favorite brand, flavor, what you like on them, do you like them split in half? Toasted? What is your favorite flavor of cream cheese?

[sakabatou]

1. Poppyseed with cream cheese and red onion

That's my absolute favorite.

[violetpastille]

2. Garlic!

Toasted with lox, a slice of tomato, cream cheese, capers and red onion.

I'm not a bagel snob, but I give wide berth to a cinnamon or blueberry bagel.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I completely agree with you on both counts!

The first sounds great and I'm not a fan of sweet bagels.

[Laffy Kat]

3. I'm so boring.

Either an Everything or Cinnamon Sugar, toasted with just a "touch" of butter. I tell them several times..."just a little bitty bit of butter" and they still slather it on so it melts all over me. Yes, I realize this is a First World Problem, but you asked.

[SeattleVet]

4. Plain, preferably bought on the Lower East Side of Manhattan...

with just a simple schmear and a hefty portion of good lox.

(Anything else is just...wrong!)

[smirkymonkey]

9. Yes! LES or UWS is the place to go for bagels.

I used to go to H&H when I lived in NYC. I miss having a good NY bagel place. Lox, red onion and capers is the way to go.

[pnwest]

5. Everything bagel, double-toasted and buttered.

[PaulX2]

6. Pumpernickel

[smirkymonkey]

8. I love pumpernickel bagels!

My favorite! And this might bum some people out, but I love it topped with olive cream cheese!

[CTyankee]

20. Sounds great to me!

[NeverTrumpDemocrat]

10. Well not cinnamon raisin with lox.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Not even with blueberry cream cheese and chocolate sprinkles?

[fierywoman]

11. The ones from the Jewish bakery across the street from where I grew up on

Long Island in the 1960s -- with everything, not toasted, with cream cheese.

[Freddie]

13. Onion, toasted with lots of cream cheese

In college I worked at a Jewish deli and they would lightly butter the bagel, brown it a bit on the grill and serve with cream cheese. Totally wonderful. I served countless bagel combos with lox, whitefish etc. but this Lutheran never developed a taste for the smoked fish.

[MissMillie]

14. I like the savory bagels

The picture you posted is spot-on for me... only it needs some arugula.

[PJMcK]

15. Everything bagels

Served up just like your picture.

Now I know what we'll have for brunch later this morning!

[ghostsinthemachine]

16. Onion, from a bagel place

Regular cream cheese. Slices of avocado and Roma tomatoes on top with fresh cracked salt and pepper.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Oh, that sounds good!

I'm getting hungry!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Pumpernickel from Katz's fully dressed! 🥯😋

[bif]

19. Everything bagels. Buttered. With extra everything topping

sprinkled on top. We have one of the most amazing bagel shops here in Detroit. It's called The Detroit Institute of Bagels. Their poppyseed bagels have so much topping on them, they're totally black. And their everything bagels are the best I've ever had.

[ailsagirl]

21. I like them all but am partial to sesame seed

And, for some reason, I prefer them untoasted

[IrishEyes]

22. Pumpernickel with blueberry cream cheese.

[Totally Tunsie]

23. Poppyseed or sesame, split and toasted,

with cream cheese, red onion, a slice of tomato, and lox if I have on hand.

Big NO to sweet bagels.

[PennyK]

24. Salt

Temp-Tee on one half, butter on the other, lox, Jarlsberg, red onion. Eat it and swoon into the Sunday Times crossword puzzle.
I was just in NY and ended up with an everything by accident, but the rest was perfection.