#and I mean like challah wins with most types of bread every day of the week

[srebrnafh]

While I admit that the historical background might be solid here (might - can't find a source that would confirm it), I would not say bagels are... the best. In my scale of bread like foodstuffs they don't even make top 10.

Like... If someone asked me to list good bread-like food, I would not mention bagels, since they are "that annoying bun with a hole in the middle, oh dear, something is leaking here, can someone please please please get me normal bread" food.

(at the same time, i will happily pay good money for a good street-bought obwarzanek, which is a drier cousin of bagel, consisting mostly of crust that's covered with coarse salt, poppyseed or sesame)

But, like, seriously, how bad must the quality of bread be in an area for bagels to be winning...?

I mean. Give me good matzah. I will be a happy girl. Give me challah. Oh, give me any amount of challah, and I will be delighted. Proper Central Europe wheat bread. Proper Central Europe white bread. Any number of rolls and savoury pies...

I understand the cultural significance some might assign to them, but from the point of view of this particular bread enthusiast, bagels are just... inconveniently leaky buns.

Here’s some history behind one of America’s favorite breakfast foods!

Note: There are also different myths/stories of how bagels came to be which are pretty interesting to read too!

Sources: The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York. The Bagel: the Surprising History

of a Modest Bread.

Dani Ishai Behan

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