# What do you expect to find on an Everything Bagel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188 "2014-03-20T21:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/22 "2014-03-21T19:25:59Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The concept never occurred to me before this thread (as we just don’t have bagel shops around here), but I’d like a go. I guess it would have butter, cream cheese, jelly, and peanut butter. Those are all the things I ever see people put on bagels. > > And it seems I am totally wrong. Are you guys actually talking about topping or things in the bagel dough? What you guys describe sounds like it would go great with a pizza bagel. “On,” not “in.” I’ve never had a bagel with anything _in_ the dough, but I guess it’s not completely unheard of. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/23 "2014-03-21T19:37:29Z")
The best everything bagels have the classic five plus cream cheese and good lox. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/24 "2014-03-21T20:00:13Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > The best everything bagels have the classic five plus cream cheese and good lox. Or whitefish, don’t discount a good whitefish. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/25 "2014-03-21T21:34:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > “On,” not “in.” I’ve never had a bagel with anything _in_ the dough, but I guess it’s not completely unheard of. Cinnamon raisin bagel! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/26 "2014-03-21T22:09:47Z")
^^ … and chocolate chip bagels! ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/27 "2014-03-22T00:16:34Z")
I just wanna say, as a NYer living overseas, bagels are somewhere very very near the top of the list of things I miss ☹ ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/28 "2014-03-22T00:45:04Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Or whitefish, don’t discount a good whitefish. There are _good_ whitefish? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/29 "2014-03-22T01:56:11Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > There are _good_ whitefish? A good whitefish salad on an onion bagel hits exactly the right spot on a Sunday morning. My husband likes to put whitefish salad on cinnamon raisin bagels. This is because he has a cursed tongue. At least that’s the only reason I can come up with for eating that. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/30 "2014-03-22T02:20:21Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > My husband likes to put whitefish salad on cinnamon raisin bagels. That’s wrong on many, many levels. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/31 "2014-03-22T04:25:39Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > I just wanna say, as a NYer living overseas, bagels are somewhere very very near the top of the list of things I miss ☹ You don’t even have to go as far as overseas. I live in Maryland now and while the things that are sold as bagels are perfectly pleasant food, they aren’t quite right. They don’t even pretend to know from a buttered roll. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/32 "2014-03-22T12:21:33Z")
Yeah, same in DC. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/33 "2014-03-22T13:08:13Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Cinnamon raisin bagel! :smack: But chocolate chip bagels? _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/34 "2014-03-22T13:13:59Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Enlightenment 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/35 "2014-03-22T13:16:21Z")
Chocolate chip bagels are delicious. Sure, there ain’t nothing “classic” about them but you find a good bagel shop that makes a chocolate chip bagel and give it a try. They’re wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/36 "2014-03-22T13:36:43Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Chocolate chip bagels are delicious. > Sure, there ain’t nothing “classic” about them but you find a good bagel shop that makes a chocolate chip bagel and give it a try. They’re wonderful. I’m sure they’re good; I’m just not much into sweets . ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/37 "2014-03-22T16:34:15Z")
An everything bagel and a coating of cream cheese then I slice pickled garlic and layer that…oh yum and if no pickled garlic I like a hot pepper jelly. the old stand by of lox and cream cheese and onion and tomato… oh yeah ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/38 "2014-03-22T16:50:30Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > the old stand by of lox and cream cheese and onion and tomato… oh yeah Don’t forget the capers! ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/39 "2014-03-22T17:33:57Z")
Maybe it’s because I’m not really from a bagel area (Thomas’s is about as good as I’ve accessed), but I’m not familiar with the “salt bagel.” I’m not familiar with salt as a title in any food, actually. I generally think of poppy,sesame seeds, garlic, onion. Apparently, Thomas bagels have sunflower seeds, too. So whatever is in that is my default expectation. I’m also not a big fan of bread unless it’s a sandwich component. These days, I am grain-free. So I don’t eat bagels anymore (I have a killer egg biscuit recipe, though). I used to eat a lot of bagel sandwiches. That was my daily breakfast for years. Usually with eggs, a sharp cheese, and spicy and/or salty meat. Like bacon or scrapple w/ egg and cheese. Sometimes turkey or ham instead of or in addition to eggs. Sometimes I would have cream chipped beef on a bagel, too. “Everything” always worked well with everything. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/40 "2014-03-22T18:19:49Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m sure they’re good; I’m just not much into sweets . Now I’m imagining a chocolate chip bagel with Philly strawberry cream cheese. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/41 "2014-03-22T20:19:04Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Garlic, onion, salt, sesame and poppy seeds. +1 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188.md?page=3)