SC - Did they really eat that?

[Phil & Susan Troy]

THLRenata at aol.com wrote:

> The bagels in NYC are, as you mention, excellent. I'll have to try to get to
> Williamsburg, Brooklyn some day. The absolute *best* bagel I ever had was in,
> of all places, Santa Barbara (that's the Caidan Shire of Isles, BTW) but it
> must have been a fluke. The outfit was called The New York Bagel Factory and
> they are now long gone. i guess the Santa Barbarians just couldn't appreciate
> a good bagel.

I bet they would, if they were ever exposed to them. The New York Bagel Factory
is a chain of franchises, none of whom exist in New York, so far as I know, and
what they sell bears about as much resemblance to a bagel as, well, Pizza Hut's
stuff does to pizza.

Speaking of uncanonical stuff in bagels, I happened to look, for the first time
in my life, at what Dunkin' Donuts sells as bagels, just the other day. They had
all manner of forbidden stuff added to them, including the aforementioned
blueberries and jalapenos, and I honestly had to laugh out loud. This was not
because of the weird orange coloring of the jalapeno variety, which _was_ pretty
funny, but the strange flatness of the bagels. I recall, a year or two ago, a
television commercial, advertising I know not what (cream cheese???), which
featured the gimmick of an air-filled plastic bagel, suddenly deflating til it
looked like a pancake with a hole in it. That's what these things looked like. Or
perhaps they had been run over by a truck.

Yeah, I admit it, I'm one of those people you see walking down the street, who
bust out laughing at nothing... .

There's no reason why decent bagels couldn't be available anywhere in the world
where bread can be made, and the demand is increasing as New Yorkers conquer and
colonize our subject lands. So, eventually decent bagels should be easier to get.
Pizza, too. You can get good pizza in several towns in New Jersey, for instance.

But, I respectfully point out that no one seems to be naming their bagel
franchises after Santa Barbara or any cities in Canada. At least not yet ;  ) .
If advertising could be allowed to return to its simple roots, they could call
these places "Really Good Bagels" or some such. Then there would be a chance of
truth to it.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com


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