Julia Altshuler wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> I have never had a New Work bagel, but I have it on good advice from
>> people
>> who have had both that Montreal bagels are as good or better. They are
>> incredible. There is nothing like them around here.
>
>
>
> There's a bakery we sometimes go to when we drive into town. They have
> a big sign in their window saying "Best Bagels In Town." I always
> laugh. The bagels are HORRIBLE here so saying you have the best isn't
> saying much. They make spectacular croissants so we get those.
>
>
> Then the folks around here think they're eating bagels, but they're
> really a sort of doughnut shaped bread. Not bad, but not the real deal.
> A true bagel is hard, not stale hard, more dense chewy hard.

Exactly, and the ones I had in New York were much softer
than the ones I get in Pittsburgh!

Kate

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