I know, I know, you want toasted bagels, but you might as well ask for them to grate american cheese all over your spaghetti, it's blasphemous. get some other bread.
a good bagel is fresh and is not toasted. period. the outer shell will have this certain crispness to it that only lasts as long as it's fresh. you know those blisters you've seen on the crust? they capture air in such a way.... And then, the contrast between that and the incomprehensibly soft interior... it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?
if you walk into a bagel place with a toaster, consider leaving.
if they don't have a toaster, and you walk in, and it smells malty, and you can't possibly bring yourself to leave, that's the spot. Order an everything bagel with plain or scallion cream cheese, smoked salmon, red onion, and capers.
Murray's might be my favorite.
Mar 6, 2024
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my anywhere order is everything toasted plain cream cheese (this is to evaluate the spot using a standard point of reference)
if I’m at Leon’s (shoutout Leon’s) it’s a plain bagel toasted w jalapeño cream cheese and hot honey which is as close as I can get (in New York) to the bagel I dream of at poppy bagels in Oakland which uses serrano cream cheese and local honey
Honorable mentions include tomato if its in season and they using something sexy like an earlygirl or a brandywine or a nice heirloom and the lemon olive oil situation at courage bagels in LA
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With salmon or plain cream cheese, sliced tomatoes, capers, and cucumber. And if I’m looking for fancier, I’ll get a lox / fish platter with all the fixings to build my own. Pickles are a must. Pro-tip: carry toothpicks in your pouch, will help with poppyseed-in-teeth-anxiety.
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I’ve debated toasted vs. untoasted from a bagel place before, I like my bagels to be CRISPY AND CRUNCHY!! veggie cream cheese is just the best tasting in my opinion, and anything more than that on a bagel just makes it into a fill on meal that’ll sit with me for the rest of the day
BUT If I’m at home, or at a place that offered this - pesto feta cream cheese!! Make it yourself, it’s 100% worth it!
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I feel like this place isn't about people but about recommendations, right? forget the influencer, forget the individual, just browse and talk about cool shit and whoever says something good, that's good. that's what I liked about reddit, back when I actually liked reddit.
I haven't found many people I want to follow, and I'm not really looking.
Mar 3, 2024
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for a while, when I wanted something expensive, I would think to myself, "oh, let me just look for a cheaper version of it." I end up settling for something that isn't good in any of the ways that made me want the expensive version.
Throw that out. You can get fantastic pieces for cheap, you can thrift a wardrobe you love, but if you're trying to find a cheap copy of something expensive, it's not going to work.
Feb 8, 2024
I pulled together all the good advice I could on how to get a men's summer wardrobe together cheap. I hope it helps somebody.
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