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By: Eating Post! « in-the-cup

Eating Post! « in-the-cup — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:29:27 +0000

[...] proves that eating can make for a good story in his short post (or in his words a warning): BagelFail. [...]

By: jeff lowrey

jeff lowrey — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:21:01 +0000

Steve – Crisco comes in butter flavor. You should ask them to also make a cream cheese flavor, to avoid further embarrassment.

By: skzb

skzb — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:41:55 +0000

Do they have a Crisco flavor?

By: Keino

Keino — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:18:40 +0000

Sorry for laughing, but this entry made laugh loudly.

Philadelphia has been making cream cheese with different flavors. I would encourage everyone to try the Tomato-Basil flavor. Love it on bagels….

By: Miramon

Miramon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:47:45 +0000

The best bagels certainly used to come from New York. But while they are still better in NYC than from any other place I’m aware of, their quality has deteriorated, and you have to search hard for a good source. For example, H&H is not all that great anymore.

A good bagel should be well cooked (boiled and baked) with a bit of glaze and hardness on the outside (yet not at all brittle) and should be perfectly edible untoasted if bought fresh from the bakery where it was made. That last bit is the tough part in most of the country, since the “bakery” is really a factory half a day away from the store in most cases, and even local sources just don’t seem to have the recipe down right.

Sadly all the bagels I get in MA don’t even seem to be fully baked and need to be toasted to even be edible. I imagine this is deliberate since they have to be shipped to the store, due to the lack of local bakeries.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:10:34 +0000

The truly annoying thing about Philadelphia cream cheese (“don’t forget the Philly”) is that my supermarket has decided that the true, real, original Philly belongs two shelves below my knees, while all the upstart low-fat and flavored and whipped (and God help me, sometimes low-fat flavored whipped) varieties on all higher shelves. Faaaugh.

By: Big Mike

Big Mike — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:26:20 +0000

Philadelphia cream cheese doesn’t come from Philly. Hard as it is to believe (I once read about it), it was cool to be associated with Philadelphia at the time cream cheese was created. On the other hand, IMHO, the best bagels do come from Philly. When I was growing up there, it was cool to be FROM Philly rather than in it.

Everyone knows that what you want on bagels is butter cheese and smoked pinkfish.

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:49:16 +0000

Philadelphia? The correct cream cheese for a bagel is “Temptee” brand whipped cream cheese. Do the best bagels come from Philadelphia? No. Then why should the cheese?

By: skzb

skzb — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:27:56 +0000

Never mind, found it. Thank you.

By: skzb

skzb — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:59:55 +0000

Chuck: The link isn’t working; can you check it please?