Bagels

[mik]

Heavy. Stodgy. Taste stale when fresh.

Which of you weirdos actually likes them?

[evostick]

Agreed. Bagels are fucking rubbish.

Lardy cake, that's what you really want.

[Rich B]

Bagels are awesome, especially toasted.

[NotoriousREV]

Agreed, I’m not a fan. See also ciabatta. Too heavy.

[Mito Man]

Bagels are awesome, especially toasted.

This.

[Jobbo]

Yeah, toast them. The texture is wrong if you don’t.

[JLv3.0]

Exactly. Ham and cheese on a toasted bagel is my go-to breakfast / CBA snack. Balls to chewing through an untoasted one.

[mik]

This is actually interesting.

I would never eat a sarnie with Scottish Plain bread, but there is no finer toast in teh world. FACT.

[Simon]

People eat un-toasted bagels? WTF?

[JLv3.0]

"People eat un-toasted bagels and then cry about it ? WTF?"

There. That's better.

I can understand it from the Northerners and the Sweaties - they seem to struggle even with their own bread products enough as it is - but Evostick is from the smarter end of the country and should know better.

Hey - hang on - are you sure you lot don't already have bagels, but call them boonswoggle penguin cakes or something?

[NotoriousREV]

We call them “shit donuts”

[JLv3.0]

You a Ross Noble fan Dave?

Vol-au-vent being French for "inadequate pie", and all that

[ZedLeg]

I didn't even consider that someone would try and eat a bagel without toasting it.

A bagel with goats cheese and fried mushrooms is one of my favourite things.

[GG.]

I would give my vote to the awesomeness that is salt beef bagel with pickles and mustard - ideally from somewhere like Beigel Bake on Brick Lane.

This is ending up as a Bagel appreciation thread - sorry Mik

[Rich B]

I would give my vote to the awesomeness that is salt beef bagel with pickles and mustard - ideally from somewhere like Beigel Bake on Brick Lane.

This is ending up as a Bagel appreciation thread - sorry Mik

Yep, been there many times - we also get bags of bagels from there to have on Easter breakfast (salmon and egg) at my wife’s family every year after the nights drinking.

Anyone who doesn’t like bagels is odd.

[Mito Man]

Seems to be a bit of north/south divide going on here

[NotoriousREV]

I would give my vote to the awesomeness that is salt beef bagel with pickles and mustard - ideally from somewhere like Beigel Bake on Brick Lane.

This is ending up as a Bagel appreciation thread - sorry Mik

Waitrose do a pretzel sub with salt beef, pickles and mustard. It's amazing!

[ZedLeg]

See also ciabatta. Too heavy.

Ciabatta is better toasted as well, makes the best garlic bread. It's also pretty good for a steak sandwich.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to say in a Scottish accent without sounding like an idiot (shut up JL ).

[NotoriousREV]

You a Ross Noble fan Dave?

Vol-au-vent being French for "inadequate pie", and all that

Weirdly, I've never really watched any of his shows but he's funny whenever I see him in something I happen to be watching. Vol-au-vents always appear to be filled with cat vomit, so I avoid them.

[Alex_]

I like my bagels untoasted.