Vegemite! Vegemite! Vegemite!
It'd be a pity to waste the Vegemite on a bagel! Must go and have some Vegemite toast - nearly breakfast time!
margo wrote:
From my (admittedly limited) experience, bagels and food have nothing in common![/color]
Somebody give that lady a cee-gar . . .
Ah, Philistines were smart enough not to eat bagels, either, huh?
C'mon, somebody back me up here. Aren't there any Jews and/or New Yorkers out there?
Do you have Krispy Kreme in Oz? I wonder what Vegemite on a Krispy Kreme would taste like?
Probably better than just the doughnut.
I was born in New York, Boss, and i was also raised by my grandparents. My grandmother arose before dawn each Saturday to bake the bread for the next week. The thought of taking perfectly good bread dough and boiling it, fer dog's sake, is completely repellant to me. The end result, when baked, is a thing accursed.
PD -- I love bagels, though I hardly ever eat them anymore because of their amazing calories and carbos. But the bagels must be fresh, made that day. Otherwise, give 'em to the dogs.
Oh.
Sorry.
heehee
I still think that the bagels sold at 50 cents each at Safeway in our neck of the woods are perfectly acceptable and just like the ones I've had from NY. However, and this is where I veer off from the purists, my very favorite kinds are the jalapeno cheese and the asiago cheese bagels. They are delicious when split and toasted and buttered. They are good for meat sandwiches, too. Yummmy.
Speaking of back east, I spent four years in Boston and don't remember eating a bagel nearly as good as what Noah's is putting out. I never ate one in NYC because the bagel vendors boiling/cooking them on the street stunk so badly as to ruin the appetite. The paperweight bagels of 20 years ago are fortunately a thing of the past, at least at Noah's.
Vegemite? <Shudder> Maybe that's what happened to her!
Pshew. "An abortion of the language." And I thought I was getting worked up this morning.
cj, I was in Boston for ten years, and there is not a single good bagel anywhere in the area. Gummy is the first word that comes to my mind. Blech! Not a fair representation of what you can find in elsewhere in the northeast. And you all know I am not one to say bad things about my beloved Boston...
I'm in New York now. Bagels are among the very few things I love here. I don't eat the street vendor ones, though. I go to bakeries where everyone speaks Hebrew. They abound in my neighborhood.
I love bread, and I adore bagels.
A good bagel is a true thing of beauty. The heavy and chewier the better. Nothing better. Well maybe a latke. Maybe.
A nice sesame twister bagel, toasted, with soft fresh cream cheese. Some fresh dill pickle and one of those dental size cups of coleslaw. Heaven.
There's a good glatt kosher place in the food court near me. I normally don't like anything but a plain or sesame bagel but they've got a twisted marble bagel that I will consider compromising my standards for.
marycat, i had some interesting things while i was in Boston in the fall. They were called bagels, but they were really buns. Nice, but not bagels.
Forget about those nasty Krispy Kreme things. Fried grease with sugar on top. Vile.
Oh dear! Bagel war breaking out! This is like Lilliput and the Big-Endian Heresy!
Foe the record - teehee - my muffin comment was in answer to the Australian muffin question - I don't think they are bagels.
I quite like bagels - but I hardly eat any bready stuff any more.
I hardly ever use vegemite. It is something I occasionally (maybe once a year) have on toast - or on vita weat biscuits -and then you have to use butter and make the whole topping come out the holes by putting another biscuit on top and squeezing.
But then, as many have commented, I am not a proper Australian - I hate beer, almost all sport, barbecues and almost never touch vegemite!
Do you think I ought to emigrate?
dlowan, How about a shrimp on the bar-b?
c.i.
We do not have "shrimps" in oz, CI - we have PRAWNS!
That was a purely US-directed piece of language.
I like prawns marinaded and cooked on a charcoal grill, though.
Oh Deb, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
