# What's your favourite bagel? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861 "2007-07-31T19:41:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/41 "2007-08-01T02:49:30Z")
My favorite bagel is a salt bagel. chunks of Kosher salt inside and crusted with it on the outside. For me it is a big treat when I find someplace here in Vegas that sells them. Right now, I know of one place. It is a deli/bakery that has the decor charm of a bus station but the food is fantastic. It is in a horrible part of town, dare I say ghetto. Pair that salty bad boy up with some cream cheese, capers, tomatoes and lox…mmmmmmmmmmmm… When I cannot get the sacred salt bagel I will take an everything followed by garlic or onion. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/42 "2007-08-01T02:51:12Z")
Salt, cheese, egg, sesame seed, poppy seed, blueberry, raisin. I think that’ll do for now. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/43 "2007-08-01T02:56:08Z")
Onion bagels, not toasted, with cream cheese. I had no idea how boring I was until I read this thread , but now I have some new ideas to try. I might experiment now. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/44 "2007-08-01T04:29:25Z")
Everything bagels, warmed slightly, or egg bagels, toasted lightly with a little bit of butter. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/45 "2007-08-01T04:39:27Z")
No one has mentioned an important part of bagel eating - the bagel must be sliced with a butter knife, never with a bread knife or other sharp implement. How else to make the surface so lovingly irregular. And yes I said must 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/46 "2007-08-01T16:15:33Z")
Cheddar cheese…mmmmmm. Or sesame seed. Or plain. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/47 "2007-08-01T17:03:28Z")
Everything, toasted, with olive cream cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/48 "2007-08-01T17:21:38Z")
Bagels? Feh. I want donuts. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/49 "2007-08-01T17:26:17Z")
[QUOTE=MoodIndigo1] No Montrealers have posted yet, I see. Montreal bagels rule, especially the ones from Fairmount Bagels or St Viateur Bagels. Once you’ve had one of those, the rest of bagel world is spoiled for you forever. Those who don’t like bagels at all just haven’t tried ours. 🙂 [/QUOTE] You beat me to it. Fairmount sesame bagels (poppyseed if I’m feeling different), toasted with butter or maybe plain cream cheese. Nothing else is necessary. Bagel nirvana. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/50 "2007-08-01T18:04:51Z")
I hate to do this but: You can find good bagels anymore. Nearly all of the currently available bagels are like something from the “Nutramatic” machine - they taste almost completly, but not entirely, _unlike_ bagels. Here it comes: When I was a kid, you could get **real** bagels - Chewy, tough, delicious, make-your-jaws-hurt. Now they all taste like bread. Anyway, Garlic with Sable and cream cheese. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/51 "2007-08-01T18:19:06Z")
Plain. With raspberry or strawberry light cream cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/52 "2007-08-01T21:22:10Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] I’ll take an onion bialy or an everything bagel, with lox, cream cheese, and sliced tomato and onion. I’ll be in Manhattan later this week, so I plan to check out either H&H Bagels or Ess-A-Bagel – I’ve heard from fans of both, but they are supposedly the best bagels in NYC (and presumably the country). [/QUOTE] I was underwhelmed by H&H. It was a fine decent bagel, but perhaps I don’t appreciate the subtleties of bageldom. I am also of the onion bagel with cream cheese, lox, tomato and sweet onion persuasion. In lieu of that perfect scenario, a toasted onion bagel with butter and cream cheese suits me fine. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/53 "2007-08-02T15:55:34Z")
Has anyone here made their own bagels? I made a batch last year. Made the dough in my bread maker, formed the bagels, boiled than baked em. They were good, but no better than store bought. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/54 "2007-08-02T17:30:42Z")
Everything bagel, sliced like bread, and plain cream cheese. Had that for lunch yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![lilflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lilflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilflower)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/55 "2007-08-02T18:34:54Z")
Honey whole wheat, not toasted, with hummous - especiallly if it’s from Einstein Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/56 "2007-08-02T18:48:26Z")
When I was in Toronto recently, I went to a bagel chain that was unfamiliar to me and had something I’d never seen before: a marble (two-toned) bagel. Yum! Wish Noah’s carried something like that. ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861/57 "2007-08-02T20:21:31Z")
My favorite would have to be a plain bagel with cream cheese and lox. I love it! I could definitely go for that right now. Maybe tomorrow morning… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favourite-bagel/413861.md?page=2)