Cream cheese :d.
Jelly? What’s next, salsa?
Cream cheese all the way. Butter if no cream cheese is available.
Cream cheese, of course.
Jelly? WTF?
I haven’t had a bagel in ages. I don’t normally eat cream cheese anymore, but I’m thinking hummus would be good.
Cream cheese. Jelly? :eek:
-XT
Sweet bagels are an abomination unto the senses.
Bagels need to be Onion / Garlic / Salt or Everything!
Agree. Cream cheese, lox, purple onion, capers, and maybe some tomato.
JELLY?! That’s, like, ketchup, or Miracle Whip. WTF.
Butter, or cream cheese for me. I only like the onion bagels.
Also, if I’m feeling like I need to have something comforting, I’ll fry up a slice of bologna, and slap it, along with a slice of cheese, on a lightly toasted, warm, onion bagel. Mmmmm. That’s my comfort food.
Cream cheese, and ideally nova lox, or perhaps other smoked fish (chubs, whitefish, etc.) Cream cheese and jam or preserves on rare occasions, but only on plain or seame bagels. Butter-only in cases of desperation. On rare occasions I might do something like a tuna melt on a bagel, but plain jelly? That’s just weird.
I’ve put jelly on a bagel and I still think he’s wrong. It’s not in any way, shape, or form a common bagel topping.
That’s like saying everybody knows you put an egg on a hamburger - sure, I’ve heard of that but it’s by no means the norm.
I think he owes you head. Or at least a bagel.
How about a head-cheese bagel?
Whew - she’d murder me if you did. 
Cream cheese, goat cheese and jelly, goat cheese (by itself), cream cheese and jelly, honey, butter and honey, jelly (by itself), or rarely fruit butter or fruit sauce (like applesauce). In approximate order of frequency/preference.
If from Hannah’s Bretzels, definitely both cream cheese and their fab fruit preserves. !!
So, yes to both poll options.
You need to streamline his narrow ass and send him down the road to where he can have jelly on his bagels and eat those fake croissants, too. He probably likes airline food and ketchup on his hotdogs.
I was raised Jewish. My Dad is Jewish. My Dad eats everything on everything.
I’ve never seen him, or anyone else, put jelly on a bagel.
Toast, sure.
-D/a
So, what other monstrosities does he consume? Let’s just say that if there was a Yahweh anyone putting jelly on bagel would wake up with boils, toads in the bed, and his bathtub red with blood. If he were lucky. How do I know? 3,000 years of tradition.
Cream cheese or butter are the right answers. Nova lox is good, of course, but also sable and even whitefish if you are close to good appetizing, which I am not.
And I will do without rather than eat stupid supermarket rolls with holes. At least I have a Noah’s nearby which is marginally acceptable. The other bagel places around are run by people with no clue as to what makes a decent bagel.
I made my post before I read this. Donald Trump may be an idiot, but the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City had excellent whitefish when I was at a conference in Atlantic City 10 years ago. It is something more or less impossible to get in the Bay Area.
From that OP: “He has manners but no tact. He’s loud and self-important. He finds ways to work his IQ into everyday conversation. No really, he does. When you CASUALLY starts asking about something for no reason you can be sure he’s trying to set things up so he can talk about his own intelligence. He speaks in a high-pitched whine. His inflection is 6 different types of annoying. He’s fat.”
And it was a Doper complaining about this…
Anyway, obviously your boyfriend is stupid. Jelly has no place on a bagel.
I have on more than one occasion put jelly on a toasted buttered bagel. While it is not a traditional topping like cream cheese it is no weirder than putting jelly on toast.
Just dump the guy. Nobody puts jelly on a bagel.