> "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply)"
> > Lucille wrote:
> >> Oh dear, if my dear departed FIL heard you say you liked chocolate
> >> raspberry bagels, he would have a conniption fit. He was an old
> >> fashioned baker who would have thought that was the end of baking as he
> >> knew it. I kind of imagine he would have thought putting raisins into a
> >> bagel was a travesty. Can we call him a bagel purist??
> >
> > How about a "bagel fundamentalist"?
>
> He would have loved that designation.
He was an orthodox bagelist -- plain bagels and maybe egg bagels. A conservative bagelist will eat sesame, onion, garlic, salt, and raisin bagels. A reform bagelist accepts exotic toppings and fillings. There is no name for bagelists who eat Lenders or Sarah Lee bagels -- they're totally beyond the pale. I had a coupon for Kraft bagel bits and went shopping one day when I was hungry. After fixing one and deciding it was like eating cheesy cardboard, I threw out the rest of the box.