I had a revelation today while doing my shopping....

[conuly]

I was looking at bagels (I scream, you scream, we all scream for bagels, right?) when it occured to me, in a flash of inspiration, to check the ingredient list for Everything bagels.

Let's see... hm... there's poppy seeds, and sesame seeds, and onion, and garlic, and... uh... what else? What popular (EVIL!) bagel topping is conspicuous by its very absence?

That's right! The everything bagel contains neither cinnamon nor raisins. That's because the cinnamon raisin bagel is an anathema to all right-minded bagel eaters everywhere. It is of the devil, and it has no place in the pantheon of bagel flavors. Eat it at your own risk - if you're EVIL. Seriously, wouldn't you prefer a nice onion bagel, or a bialy? One cannot put lox, after all, on the sickly sweet (and EVIL!) cinnamon raisin bagel (well, one hopes one wouldn't do such a thing. I feel nauseated just thinking about it!), nor onions.

Cinnamon raisin bagels. They're just wrong.

_{AND EVIL!}

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Amherst I suppose, in Massachusetts. Not 100% sure that's how it's spelt, but it's along those lines. Whether it was one bakery or many I don't know - I do recall that we ate bagels on multiple days.

[conuly]

Ah, well, Massachusetts. They only got any sort of bagels a few years ago, right? I'd be surprised if they were any good at them yet.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

It was more than 10 years ago that I had bagels there. There was a lot of variety, not something you'd associate with a recently arrived product.

[conuly]

A lot of varieties indicates that they didn't understand the nature of the bagel. Note what I said about a closed pantheon.