The French have nothing to worry about on the croissant front, I think. Then again, it's hard for me to understand why anyone vacationing in France need eat any other bread form than a good baguette. And FTR, most American baguettes suffer greatly in comparison, esp the fancy zahzah ones around LA and the Bay Area. Sure I eat them, but they are an altogether different, crusty little beast.
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Burrell - Aug 02, 2003 7:44:28 am PDT #6080 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
erikaj - Aug 02, 2003 7:48:31 am PDT #6081 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Standing Right Here. Well, in a metaphorical sense.(ETA: No! Two. It's metaphoriffic!) I will be happy to eat an East Coast bagel at the next f2f, though, to fill in the gaps in my bagel-education.
Nutty - Aug 02, 2003 7:50:42 am PDT #6082 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Are UK muffins the same as what Americans call English Muffins? I.e., little flat bread-y circles that you cut in two and find lots of little holes ("nooks and crannies") into which to spread butter? That's what Thomas's English Muffins (in the US) are, and I sort of assumed they were actually Thomas's Attempt To Steal Cultural Prestige, But Actually Pulled The Recipe Out Of His Hindparts Muffins.
I did learn, in France, that they make croissants without butter in the recipe. I'm not sure I see the point in that, but then, I never ate any of these butterless concoctions. It's pastry, for crying out loud! How can you have good pastry without butter (or equivalent)?
Susan W. - Aug 02, 2003 7:51:28 am PDT #6083 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Just don't eat any bagels west of the Delaware.
Hey! Philadelphia makes perfectly good bagels.
It's these crazy westerners with their cinnamon-raisin and chocolate chip bagels who should be judged and judged severely.
erikaj - Aug 02, 2003 7:53:42 am PDT #6084 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Hey! That's my hey. Hey! There's a bagel bakery in Arizona, now. Don't worry, we bought plain!
Trudy Booth - Aug 02, 2003 7:54:48 am PDT #6085 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The mad riffing on bagel flavors is maddening.
Cinnamon rasin has been grandfathered in, but NO NEW BAGELS (particularly sweet ones)/
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2003 7:57:38 am PDT #6086 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Plain, poppyseed, sesame ... that's all, we're done, thank you.
erikaj - Aug 02, 2003 8:00:28 am PDT #6087 of 9843
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All joking aside, you'd only get a very little argument from me on that. Because 1. You're ita. And 2. Those really are the best ones.
Typo Boy - Aug 02, 2003 8:01:33 am PDT #6088 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Just don't eat any bagels west of the Delaware.
Hey LA has some of the greatest bagels of all times. I know a lot of transplanted New Yorkers who admit this.
As to the odd flavored bagels: Well the classics are still available. But once you allow cinammon-raisin, I don't see how you can excluded all the other sweet flavors. Similarly given garlic and onion bagels, I don't see how you can arbitrarily exclude the Jalepano and so forth.
Mind you, garlic, onion and plain are still my favorites..
Tom Scola - Aug 02, 2003 8:05:56 am PDT #6089 of 9843
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Since, by definition, an "everything" bagel is the set of all possible bagels, if something has an ingredient in it that isn't in an everything bagel, then it isn't a bagel.
QED.