“On,” not “in.” I’ve never had a bagel with anything in the dough, but I guess it’s not completely unheard of.
The best everything bagels have the classic five plus cream cheese and good lox.
Or whitefish, don’t discount a good whitefish.
Cinnamon raisin bagel!
^^ … and chocolate chip bagels!
I just wanna say, as a NYer living overseas, bagels are somewhere very very near the top of the list of things I miss 
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.
That’s wrong on many, many levels.
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.
Yeah, same in DC.
:smack:
But chocolate chip bagels? shudder
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 .
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
Don’t forget the capers!
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.
Now I’m imagining a chocolate chip bagel with Philly strawberry cream cheese. 
+1