# What's the best bagel? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587 "2002-08-19T13:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/1 "2002-08-19T13:59:17Z")
Personally, I love a toasted sesame bagel with a few slices of American cheese in the middle, but a good toasted onion bagel with butter is bliss. So, what’s your favorite bagel? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/2 "2002-08-19T14:07:48Z")
My favorite-Blue Berry…Now that’s good eat’n! Hmmmm…butter… ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/3 "2002-08-19T14:27:10Z")
au bon pain’s asiago cheese bagel ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/4 "2002-08-19T14:51:43Z")
A sesame-seed bagel from the [Fairmount Bagel Bakery](http://www.english.montrealplus.ca/E/V/MTLEN/0004/38/18/), pulled out of the bag as soon as you leave the store, with nothing on it. That ephemeral pleasure aside, the same kind of bagel, toasted, with unsalted butter and black-currant jam. Yum. I miss Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/5 "2002-08-19T14:53:59Z")
Lightly-toasted poppy seed with several slices of turkey, lots of hot mustard and some lettuce and tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/6 "2002-08-19T15:40:56Z")
Warm everything-bagels with butter. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/7 "2002-08-19T15:50:25Z")
You all are wrong! Blueberry is simply the best. To qoute Tina Turner “better than all the rest!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![knarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@knarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knarf)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/8 "2002-08-19T16:16:07Z")
Toasted poppyseed with vegetable cream cheese. As a side note, I used to get a garlic bagel with liverwurst, swiss, horseradish and spicy mustard when I was angry with an ex -girlfriend. Tasted pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/9 "2002-08-19T17:14:33Z")
Never toasted unless at a diner. ONLY then toasted with butter and jam. Otherwise, non-toasted, painfully chewy fresh from the bagel shop. With cream cheese (veggie or chive): Everything (preferably with a slice of onion and/or tomato) With butter: Salt As Sandwich: either of the above, or occaisionally onion. For breakfast: Java Joe’s bizarre French Toast Bagel, with a little bit of butter. mm… I’m drooling here… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/10 "2002-08-19T17:29:40Z")
Onion bagel slathered with sour cream, fresh from the toaster. Sure, you have to brush your teeth and gargle afterwards, but it’s worth it… ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/11 "2002-08-19T23:04:07Z")
Onion bagel w/butter or raisin bagel w/cinnamon. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/12 "2002-08-19T23:10:00Z")
Blueberry or Cinnamon Raisin from [Bruegger’s](http://www.brueggers.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/13 "2002-08-20T00:17:31Z")
Beagledave-OR…OR…OR??? You are either with us (the blueberry people) or against us. Pick your side 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/14 "2002-08-20T00:25:18Z")
A pox on thy Bruegger’s bagels. Noah’s are the only ones worth driving 20 miles for. Especially when they’re still steaming hot from the oven. Is it true that there’s a difference between bagels on the east and west coasts (of the US)? Out here (California), they tend to be fluffy, like risen bread while the few bagels that I’ve had on the east coast were denser. Is that typical of back east bagels? If so, does it merit another civil war? ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/15 "2002-08-20T00:27:30Z")
There’s no question people, Cinnamon-Raisin, all the way. Cold and chewy is perfect, but if you’ve got the time, toast it lightly, brush with butter and sprinkle with brown sugar. Let it all melt to a gooey, sticky mess and you’re in breakfast heaven. Where’s the drooly smiley when you need it? bella ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/16 "2002-08-20T00:37:39Z")
There’s no question people, Cinnamon-Raisin, all the way. Suggesting otherwise is simply silly. 🙂 Cold and chewy is perfect, but if you’ve got the time, toast it lightly, brush with butter and sprinkle with brown sugar. Let it all melt to a gooey, sticky mess and you’re in breakfast heaven. Where’s the drooly smiley when you need it? bella ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/17 "2002-08-20T00:45:21Z")
belladonna-Cin…rais…Oh my G… I think it’s obvious that belladonna is bias and being PAID to state that. I mean really, folks, what are we to believe? No…Dare I say it? Cinnamon Raisin bagels, a bastard bagel by the way, is better than the perfect lushous yumminess of blueberry? No no no no…That’s absurd. 😉 Who do you work for bella? You do know what those ‘raisins’ look like, right? If’n you don’t, all I have to say is that I had mice who “made raisins”. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/18 "2002-08-20T00:53:41Z")
1. Plain untoasted bagel, heavy on the veggie cream cheese, from my local Dunkin’ Donuts. 2. Onion untoasted bagel with homemade veggie or regular cream cheese from a nearby bagel place. If no cream cheese is available, I go with a spreading of butter sprinkled very lightly with salt. Raisins give me the creeps. Always did. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/19 "2002-08-20T01:50:58Z")
If you’re going to eat a cinnamon raisin bagel, please, don’t spread Italian dressing on it! :eek: I don’t mind which kind of bagel, it always ends up dunked in my coffee cup… ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587/20 "2002-08-20T04:11:05Z")
Gotta be a plain, untoasted bagel, warm, with nothing on it. Coming in second would be a wild berry (RED berry, not blue berry) bagel like they had at the bagel shop in Faneuil Hall, Boston [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-bagel/124587.md?page=2)