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Cultural appropriation? Bah Humbug!

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I love this piece. I love bagels. I love Jewish people. I have wanted to be one for years but I was baptised a Christian. Not that I mind, but maybe I could be both ? Or Jewish on Friday night and Saturday, C of E on Sunday. No ? Oy vey, then the nearest I'll ever get is that my daughter has a Jewish partner and a half Jewish baby son. So I have a half Jewish grandson. He is still eating mush but before long he'll be tackling bagels. Then I'll take him to a proper Jewish bagel shop.

Next time, remind me to tell you the story of Arnold Wesker, a London bus and my trip to an East End hot salt beef shop. Xx

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New York is the home of the true bagel. Having said that it is very difficult to find the chewy bagel pre 1970s anymore. Maybe at Russ and Daughters. I find some good ones but not like that...they are all easy to cut in two and large so they won''t go in any of my many vintage toastmaster toasters....so forced to use a modern one. Have bagels finally caught on at this late stage in the UK. When will the Palestinians claim that it is not originally Jewish but Palestine's. What if I put hummus on a bagel? tonightt coincidentally I will have a bialy most likely with eastern gaspe nova from Sable's on the upper east side where those Rich Jews live....I live in Queens where there is nan but no bagels.

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No baigels made in Didsbury. Two Jewish delis closed years ago. Lapwing Deli gets some from Barbakan in Chorlton if you're lucky. Barbakah progeny? Who knows!

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Super gloss on these bagels!

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Sorry Howard. We market traders all knew about the all-night bagel shop in Brick Lane back in the 1980s. We all went there after a heavy early morning trying to beat down the ridiculous prices of the sellers of tat. Every sunday we looked forward to the warmth of the bagel shop after freezing our tits off in the cold, dark street.

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What about lashings of Marmite on a buttered toasted bagel, Howard? My English-Jewish wife of many years --born in Swiss Cottage- turned me on to this savory delight. In NYC where we live ,Marmite itself is pretty much unknown, and only available in several English food shops here.

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Well, everybody has their own peculiar love affair with a food. Mine? I positively love salted sunflower seeds. I especially love the ones that come from Spain and are so salty that they look like they are coated in white. I love anything salty, but these are the top banana.

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I echo Susan Hill comment and add that I simply love this man's work! :-) YOUR work, that is, Mr Jacobson! :-)

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I would like to speak on behalf of the bialy. They are lovely.

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I agree, wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, they seem on their way to extinction. Perhaps we can start a breeding program.

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I haven’t had a British bagel, but hold Brooklyn as the best in America. In my neighborhood, I am the Bagel Buyer for friends in my misplaced home of Maryland. I am tantalized by watching a first time bagel eater eyes when they experience their first bite of this Jewish jewel.

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I remember when bagels were Jewish food and pizza was Italian food. You had to go to a Jewish neighborhood to get a bagel and go to an Italian neighborhood to get pizza.

Oh, how I miss the Hamilton Ave. Bakery in Paterson NJ! Howard's description of the hidden nighttime bagel shop fits this place to a tee!!

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A beigel for me, please. Thinner, chewier and not as sweet as yer Northener's item or, God forbid, that fluffier American bun style which even seems to have influenced Grods' these days.

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