# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/42 "2014-03-22T21:12:33Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > 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.” It’s like the kind of salt you get on a soft pretzel . . . and it’s yummy. > [@](#): > > scrapple w/ egg and cheese. Where do you live that you can’t get a good bagel but you _can_ get scrapple? I thought scrapple was strictly a Philadelphia thing. There’s plenty of great bagels to be found in the Philadelphia area. Yes, the best bagels I’ve had have been in New York but I’ve certainly had some subpar New York bagels that aren’t nearly as good as the best Philadelphia bagels that I’ve had. If you live anywhere near Philadelphia and you think Thomas’ bagels are the best you can get, then you’re not trying hard enough. Am I wrong about the scrapple thing? Beyond all logic and reason have people in other regions opened their hearts to scrapple? ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/43 "2014-03-23T01:01:09Z")
I’ll just leave [this here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_xTIrT_aiI) (7min video from 1979 about making bagels in Brooklyn; it don’t get any more Brooklyn than that!) (incidentally, no mention of everything bagels so I’m guessing that innovation came a bit later) ---
**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 23, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/44 "2014-03-23T01:35:31Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > It’s like the kind of salt you get on a soft pretzel . . . and it’s yummy. > > Where do you live that you can’t get a good bagel but you _can_ get scrapple? > I thought scrapple was strictly a Philadelphia thing. There’s plenty of great bagels to be found in the Philadelphia area. Yes, the best bagels I’ve had have been in New York but I’ve certainly had some subpar New York bagels that aren’t nearly as good as the best Philadelphia bagels that I’ve had. If you live anywhere near Philadelphia and you think Thomas’ bagels are the best you can get, then you’re not trying hard enough. > > Am I wrong about the scrapple thing? Beyond all logic and reason have people in other regions opened their hearts to scrapple? scrapple is a mid-Atlantic thing, we had it in Virginia and it’s mentioned a few times in the Wire, which is set in Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/45 "2014-03-23T02:10:31Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > scrapple is a mid-Atlantic thing, we had it in Virginia and it’s mentioned a few times in the Wire, which is set in Baltimore. This is news to me. Interesting. Thanks for setting me straight! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/46 "2014-03-24T14:02:54Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Am I wrong about the scrapple thing? Beyond all logic and reason have people in other regions opened their hearts to scrapple? My parents are from Eastern PA and my mom loved scrapple (and Lebanon bologna). It is actually available up here but I think only at the co-op which tends to have more specialty foods. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/47 "2014-03-24T19:33:35Z")
Anything but my fingers. No thanks. Far better to do just one thing and do it well. A notable exception: the inimitable fragel (deep-fried cinnamon raisin bagel – almost more of a donut.) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/48 "2014-03-24T22:12:15Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > Anything but my fingers. Yes. Those go in the scrapple. ---
**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 24, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188/49 "2014-03-24T22:20:17Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Now I’m imagining a chocolate chip bagel with Philly strawberry cream cheese. 🙂 Each one is pretty much the only reason the other one exists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-expect-to-find-on-an-everything-bagel/684188.md?page=2)