Today's blueberry.

[navygreen]

I wonder if anyone really loves bagels for anything more than their cream cheese delivery service?

Comments

[sdaisyk.livejournal.com]

I don't like cream cheese. I put butter on my bagels.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

We're still just using them here, you see. *nods*

[sdaisyk.livejournal.com]

I was known to eat mini bagels plain and untoasted as a snack in my toaster-less college dorm room

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I've eaten them as sandwiches (with no mayo or anything like that), but never just plain.

[livemockingbird.livejournal.com]

I love them for their butter delivery service!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

LOL, that too!

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

I frequently eat my bagels toasted with butter instead of cream cheese (mainly because I run out of cream cheese fast, and butter is cheaper). I like bagels with peanut butter on them too, depending on what kind of bagel :)

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

But do you ever really eat them plain? Do you ever love them for just WHO they are, not WHAT they can provide you with? ;-)

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really eat ANY bread product plain. I love bread in all its forms, but I only eat it with butter or jam or peanut butter or lunch meat... I haven't eaten a plain slice of bread since I was about six. The only exception is occasionally fresh French bread, but even that I usually eat with spreadable cheese of some sort and/or balsamic vinegar mixed with olive oil.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, French bread. A toasty baguette sounds SO good right now! You're like me, though - I don't generally eat bread plain. Crackers, yes, but bread, no.

[lotsofjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm the odd one out... BUT it's got to be a REAL bagel... not the bagel shaped bread that most people think of as bagels. With a real bagel I dig out a part of the side and the hollow it out, then I eat the "crust".

YUM..... but, oh, I haven't done that in AGES and AGES and AGES because Oregonians don't know what real bagels are. *sigh*

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I'm betting that my Pepperidge Farm mini-blueberry bagels aren't REAL ones, but they sure are tasty!

[lotsofjoy.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.. I'm going home to Detroit in a month.... maybe I'll see if it's possible to get some real bagels sent to you fast enough that they are still worth eating.... without breaking the bank!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

So many of you mentioned REAL bagels. I'm now wondering if I've ever had one in my life!

[ginky.livejournal.com]

I don't eat cream cheese (unless it's in dip format) and I love bagels, so ME!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I can eat a Panera® Cinnamon Crunch bagel plain... but that's about it. ;-)

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say that if it's a Panera Cinnamon Crunch bagel, I can eat that without any cream cheese.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I consider those to be a dessert. ;-)

[scarletharlot52.livejournal.com]

When I eat bagels, I have them 'raw' (ie. untoasted) and plain. No delivery service. :-)

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

But you're missing out! Thirty minutes, or they're free! ;-)

[marshmelococoa.livejournal.com]

I think I would choke on them raw - I prefer them toasted with tons of butter AND cream cheese. I like plain cream cheese but I also love FLAVORED cream cheese.

Just FYI, pretzels make an excellent delivery service for warmed up cream cheese. :P

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I agree - to me, a plain bagel would be so, so dry. Then again, from the comments to this entry, I'm wondering if I've ever had a REAL bagel...

Regular pretzels, maybe. Philip likes those big, soft pretzels, and I think they're so yucky!

[marshmelococoa.livejournal.com]

I do like the big soft pretzels too - but not from the frozen foods section - from the little stores in the mall but they don't have any around here.

So yes, regular pretzels - yummy.

I'm not sure I've had a 'real' bagel either now. But I can bet you that we're pretty unlikely to find one up here in these parts. :P

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I'm so curious: what is it that makes them REAL?

[(Anonymous)]

I probably don't actually know but they have to be very, very chewy in order to qualify for me. Smooth and shiny on the outside and kind of hard.

[hearts-refuge.livejournal.com]

Oh I do! They have to be real bagels, which is one of the few perks of going to chicago!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

LOL, so many of you have mentioned the REALness of a bagel - what makes it so? What's the difference in bagels? I'm doubting now that I've ever had one!

[butterflymama3.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly like cream cheese so bagels don't work for me that way. Toasted with some butter - yum. Even plain with nothing on them - yum. But...they have to be real bagels. I am kind of snobby about my bagels. NY bagels are the BEST. No weird bagels either like chocolate chip or blueberry (sorry). Plain, onion, sesame, poppy those are normal flavors. I like them warmed up too. When I was pregnant and had morning sickness I would stop and get a plain bagel every morning. Worked like a charm.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

See, now I've never tried the onion, sesame and other "savory" varieties because in my mind, bagels have always been sweet. I look at them in the store sometimes, but I just can't wrap my brain around the idea. I do have a friend that loves onion bagels with veggie cream cheese, though.

When you say NY bagels, do you mean ones actually from New York? Or does the New York Style brand in the store fit the bill? I've seen those, and they're just a *smidge* larger in size...

[butterflymama3.livejournal.com]

Funny how you see bagels as sweet and I see them as savory. When I say NY bagels, I mean a bit of both. NY style and actually from NY. I grew up in NY (Staten Island) and now we live 45 minutes away from Manhattan. Many delis here get their bagels delivered from bakeries in the city or they make them themselves in the NY style. Not only are they bigger but they are made differently. First they are boiled, then they are baked. Plus I swear it has to do with the water. The NY water adds something. Sorry - didn't mean to write a dissertation on the superiority of NY bagels. :)

[a1.livejournal.com]

I only eat real bagels sans any toppings. The people at Dunkin Donuts often look at me funny when I say I want a blueberry bagel just plain and in the bag. When I go home to RI I look forward to spinach bagels at the local sandwich shop - no cream cheese necessary!

However, the store bought mass produced ones are best with globs of cream cheese - mmmmm

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I could eat my blueberry ones with no topping. I couldn't do a plain bagel... well, PLAIN, though.

I'm now on a quest to find myself a REAL bagel!

[mrs-picasso.livejournal.com]

My father eats them plain, but he's a plain sort of guy.

I once made croutons out of stale bagels. They were great!