>> mirjam wrote
>>> Can you schlepp out and get a nice bagel like home?????
>>> Dawne
>>
>> We here in HAIFA have the BEST bagels you can imagine ,,,, And in
>> Jerushalyim they have made the bagel that is like Manna ,,,
>> mirjam
>>
>> I think to get a proper bagel I would have to go to Montreal. I think
>> Haifa is a bit of a long drive for Vic, who is the homesick one. There
>> are bagel stores here, but I am sure what you will understand how far they
>> stray from authentic when I confess that my favourite flavour at one place
>> is chocolate raspberry!!
>>
>> Dawne
>
> 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??
>
> Lucille ;-))
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> L
Sadly, the best bagels we get around here are at a Stop and Shop that has several signs declaring "Kosher Bakery" and Kosher under Authority of Rabbi X. And while they are the best of the lot locally, they still aren't "real bagels".
C