# How do you take your bagel? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756 "2005-05-20T16:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/41 "2005-05-21T05:17:01Z")
Cinnamon raisin bagel with a light amount of cream cheese. And the cream cheese is spread on the top. I see no reason to slice my bagel in half. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/42 "2005-05-21T12:09:26Z")
I know a place that has Black Russian Bagels–very dark pumpernickel with onions and caraway seeds inside and sesame seeds on top. Toasted with butter and/or cheese, they are great. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/43 "2005-05-21T12:54:38Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > For a real treat; lox, thinly sliced fresh onion, capers, and cream cheese on a toasted poppyseed or onion bagel. Mmhmhmhmhmhmhmmmmm. I think I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/44 "2005-05-22T04:14:02Z")
When I was a small child, I ate choclate chip bagels. Nowadays, I “take my bagel” back to the counter and point out that I ordered a donut. I have totally lost my tast for them. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/45 "2005-05-22T06:05:08Z")
In some places just south of here, a bagel is a very vocal dog. They take their bagels hunting. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/46 "2005-05-22T06:26:15Z")
The ultimate? A plain bagel, lightly toasted, with a schmear of cream cheese, then sprinkled with capers and topped with a tissue-thin sliver of lox. That rarely happens. For everyday…a plain bagel, or maybe egg or pumpernickel, toasted and then smeared lightly with cream cheese. I’m a deviant. I _love_ cream cheese whirled with bits of green olive. Or ‘veggie/herb’ cream cheese, as long as it isn’t dehydrated soup mix stuck into plasticky erstaz cream cheese. Bagels are honest _good eats_ and they deserve honest ingredients. Fresh minced herbs, bits of finely chopped (blanched) carrots–bagel toppings shouldn’t crunch and jam between your teeth–definitely a whisper of garlic, maybe a touch of minced dried tomato…yum. But bagels once lulled me into an offense against the Postal Service, before such would get a person featured on America’s Most Wanted, strip seached and thrown into a legal neverland. My college routine was to study late–procrastination, y’know–then stagger down the cafeteria for a bagel and coffee for fortification for morning classes. It was all very robotic. Until one morning when I’d written out some checks for bills and a few very overdue letters (we wrote letters back then) and went through the routine, swinging by the mail box on the way. And staggered into the classroom, checks/letters in hand. I mailed the bagel. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/47 "2005-05-22T13:38:30Z")
Jalapeno bagels toasted. I don’t use anything else on them to save calories. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/48 "2005-05-23T10:42:35Z")
Orally. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/49 "2005-05-23T22:55:16Z")
Jalapeno bagel with sundried tomato spread Salt bagel with whipped cream cheese and smoked mackerel, whitefish, or trout. ---
**Author:** ![DrLoveGun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/50 "2005-05-24T06:58:54Z")
Everything bagel. Toasted. Cream cheese. Maybe lox if I’m in the mood. Definately not on this coast. There isn’t a decent bagel shop within 3000 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/51 "2005-05-24T23:03:17Z")
Bagels, bah. I’m not sacrificing my net carb quota on any bagel. Wait, are those donuts? ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/52 "2005-05-24T23:24:22Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Orally. As opposed to [anally](http://www.xxxfreesexchat.com/TO/0588-6.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/53 "2005-05-25T01:26:54Z")
I LOVE bagles, but since Actos and Metformin became my friends, the carbs were not so good. Enter the local bagle shop. Well, not too local, he’s 4 towns to the west. Lo-Carb bagels. Stop holding crosses up at me, they are actualy GOOD. One Third the carbs. The major drawback is they have the shelf life of a vat of Francium. They go from his oven, to a bag, transported home at a eye-poping speed, flung into freezer bags and poped in cryostatis. A pair are sacrificed for breakfast daily. Asiago rules. 14 carbs per bagle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/54 "2005-05-25T01:50:09Z")
When I have money: plain or onion bagel lightly toasted with cream cheese gravlax, capers, and\* paper\* thin onions. Most of the time: plain bagel, cream cheese, ham, and alfalfa sprouts. That’s a good sammich! ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/55 "2005-05-25T02:21:36Z")
Onion bagel, NOT toasted (can’t get this through my SO’s head), and thick spread of cream cheese. Light cream cheese, if possible, but not that whipped stuff. Sadly, I can’t find a decent onion bagel around here. Much as I love the everything bagels, we can’t have them here because of the poppy seeds. We tried the sesame seed ones, and the garlic ones, but just not the same. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756/56 "2005-05-25T03:22:30Z")
Sesame seed, toasted, with herb & garlic cream cheese and sliced manzanilla olives. _So good._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-take-your-bagel/304756.md?page=2)