[serious] what do you like on bagels?

[shaft.ed]

i spent a summer eating bagel bites for lunch as a kid
hello childhood obesity

I don't eat enough bread to voluntarily include bagels into my diet
there are too many better bread products that I'd rather eat if I'm gonna

[brighteningskies]

There can be a pizza bagel with pineapple on it.

Discuss.

Only if it's raw pineapple, cooked pineapple is vile

[PokerFace]

But what's the best thing about when pizza's on a bagel.

You can have Pizza any time!

[PokerFace]

I like my bagels with cream cheese or with egg and bacon

[SleepyKrew]

jalapeno cream cheese

[Umlaut]

Cream cheese and either salmon or jam depending on whether I'm more in the mood for savory or sweet.

But bagels also make excellent breakfast sandwiches, in which case eggs and some sort of pork product are usually the way to go.

[Thestatusquo]

Chicago has exactly 0 good bagels.

[NorwegianboyEE]

Bagels aren’t all that normal here, but i think i tried it in a cafe with cream cheese and salmon and it was pretty good.

[yessiree]

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

[Ythan]

Salmon and cream cheese goes a long way

[DeathRowKitty]

You people make me sick. A bagel consists of a type of toric bread, often with spread (usually butter). This entire thread consists of "sandwiches". Almost every "bagel I see on here has other items added to it.

[Thestatusquo]

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. :/

[Thestatusquo]

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

[yessiree]

i know, i just dont want to like gourmet bagels, cause then i wouldn't be able to go back on the cheap bagels

[Thestatusquo]

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"

[Pink Ball]

Cream cheese, smoked salmon, capers and quick-pickled red onion

[Vaxkiller]

Somtimes I jsut eat them plain untoasted.

Toasted: Butter OR Sandwich toppings (ham/cheese)

Untoasted: Cream cheese. Not my fav, but once a year or 2?

[Umlaut]

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. :/

I mean, sure, if you have an oven-warm bagel from a proper bakery that knows their stuff then there's no need to toast it, but if you live in the approximately 98% of the US alone where that just isn't something you're going to get then doing the best you can with those circlebread imposters is a totally reasonable lifestyle choice.

[Thestatusquo]

I believe i acknowledged this explicitly already.

[Thestatusquo]

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

[NorwegianboyEE]

Actually i think it was chunks of Brie cheese.

Which is way better than the average cream cheese to be fair.

[Merlyn]

Chicago has exactly 0 good bagels.

I come here to spread the bagel gospel- Tilly's are amazing, amazing bagels. They used to sell via south loop farmers market, but apparently they're getting a brick and mortar some time this summer. Sharing this is probably the most important thing I'll do this year

[Thestatusquo]

Are you in Chicago? O.o

[MegAzumarill]

When I was a kid my family made jelly out of various peppers and it was the best thing on bagels I think I ever have had.

[Ythan]

Yum pepper jelly