It was the chief biochemists birthday last week and she brought in assorted doughnuts, cakes and chocs. We all looked like hamsters for the rest of the day. Hamsters with grubby faces.
A real bagel isn’t just “a piece of bread,” although the bagels you get these days aren’t anything more than bread doughnuts. As a lifelong New Yorker, I don’t think I’ve had a REAL bagel since the 1970s. Modern bagels spring back when you squeeze them. A real, old-fashioned bagel is too dense to squeeze at all. That’s not to say that they’re any more of a “special treat,” but they’re about as culturally authentic as chop suey or instant grits.
You’ve never had a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese? Those (along with a slice of raw onion) are the traditional toppings! That’s like never having had a hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut, pancakes with butter and maple syrup, or pizza with pepperoni.
bagels can become unhealthy as doughnuts. putting melted asiago cheese all over is unhealthy. or, making the bagel the crust for a pizza is not healthy at all.
Michael Thorton over 11 years ago
Now that IS a crisis.
Dwilesjr over 11 years ago
He’s dead Jay
Tog over 11 years ago
It was the chief biochemists birthday last week and she brought in assorted doughnuts, cakes and chocs. We all looked like hamsters for the rest of the day. Hamsters with grubby faces.
Thomas Scott Roberts creator over 11 years ago
He didn’t even have one. He merely saw them and down he went.
seldon913 over 11 years ago
It must have been just plain bagels. If they’d had a good variety I’m sure he could have survived with one of the chocolate chip bagels.
LadyLavendar over 11 years ago
Give him a sugar cube quick!
Comic Minister Premium Member over 11 years ago
Poor Roy.
Cartoonacy over 11 years ago
A real bagel isn’t just “a piece of bread,” although the bagels you get these days aren’t anything more than bread doughnuts. As a lifelong New Yorker, I don’t think I’ve had a REAL bagel since the 1970s. Modern bagels spring back when you squeeze them. A real, old-fashioned bagel is too dense to squeeze at all. That’s not to say that they’re any more of a “special treat,” but they’re about as culturally authentic as chop suey or instant grits.
Cartoonacy over 11 years ago
You’ve never had a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese? Those (along with a slice of raw onion) are the traditional toppings! That’s like never having had a hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut, pancakes with butter and maple syrup, or pizza with pepperoni.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
bagels can become unhealthy as doughnuts. putting melted asiago cheese all over is unhealthy. or, making the bagel the crust for a pizza is not healthy at all.