[serious] what do you like on bagels?

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most things are ok.

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...Tim's...

...untoasted bagels are trash.

I'm sorry you've never had a good bagel.

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Chicago has exactly 0 good bagels.

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My Tim's order is an everything bagel double-toasted with plain cream cheese and bacon. At home I usually go for a sesame bagel with peanut butter and a few slices of cheddar to dip in the especially melty parts. Always crispy; untoasted bagels are trash.

mine is an everything babel with 'erb'n'garlic cream cheese, toasted of course

If your bagel needs to be toasted to taste good, I have bad news about your bagels.

They suck.

toasted bagels make it easier to put cream cheese on, imagine tryna put peanut butter on an soggy, untoasted piece of bread

Legitimately if you have to toast a bagel to make it good you are not eating a good bagel. It's ok to like them that way, but toasting a fresh bagel made by someone who knows what they're doing is kinda like ordering an aged steak and then dousing it with ketchup. :/

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to be fair most bagels sold most places are crap so do whatever you like to them

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I mean, they're not gourmet, its what you get from any real jewish deli idk.

It's mostly most of the country seems to think that a bagel just means "circular bread"

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I believe i acknowledged this explicitly already.

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They don't have to be oven fresh, by the way, just like not old as shit our packaged for mass consumption.

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Are you in Chicago? O.o

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Important: I found another good bagel place in chicago.

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there are brueggers in Boston, and they are baseline fine. Infinitely better than grocery store.