@SteveSawczyn OK I looked at the menu and my mouth is watering.
Pratik Patel (mstdn.social)Pratik Patel (mstdn.social)Pratik Patel (mstdn.social)Pratik Patel (mstdn.social)Pratik Patel (mstdn.social)@SteveSawczyn OK I looked at the menu and my mouth is watering.
@acarson @ppatel @SteveSawczyn I must say though, not being American/New Yorker, seeing a menu with a ham and bacon bagel seems a tad incongruous.
@terryb @ppatel @SteveSawczyn Yeah that whole ham/bacon thing is a bit odd, but I don’t think the shop is claiming to be kosher or even kosher style and bagels are ubiquitous here and not just Jews love them.
@terryb @acarson @SteveSawczyn Hmm. Didn’t see that. It’s probably not a ham bagel but a bagel made into a sandwich with ham and cheese or eggs and ham. I’ve seen that plenty of times.
@acarson @terryb @SteveSawczyn I might have missed that since I don’t pay attention to meat based products. Interesting that the option exists. The best thing about this shop is that, other than the tasty bagels, you can often get the price reduced if you go to pick up bagels in the evening time. They will not serve old bagels the following day. So they either donate or sell them at reduced prices. I’ll take baked goods done in the morning.
@ppatel @acarson @SteveSawczyn Isn’t that the same thing?
It’s just that from a (European) Jewish POV the two items are antithetical. Particularly in the context of this thread, of course.
@terryb @ppatel @SteveSawczyn I t hink Pratik is probably so used to looking for meatless options that he just completely missed the meat ones. And to be fair, the bacon/ham/steak options are sort of sprinked in, at least from a screen reader user point of view, and so don’t make up the main part of the offerings. It’s sort of how vegetarian or vegan options get treated in the US, except in reverse.
@acarson @ppatel @SteveSawczyn Yeah, we saw bagels in a coffee shop near our hotel when we went to NY last month. Even so…..
@acarson @terryb @SteveSawczyn Those are meat sandwiches though. Aren’t they? I usually just skip those categories. It’s rare that I find anything that I can eat there.
@ppatel @terryb @SteveSawczyn Can you eat fish or are you a vegan?
@ppatel @terryb @SteveSawczyn Also, if you’re a vegan that would also exclde the cream cheese so yeah I can see where that would be a problem.
@acarson @terryb @SteveSawczyn I’m vegan. It disappoints me that I can’t eat the jalapeno bagels from this place since they insist on putting them with cheddar. It was a fantastic option when I was a vegetarian who ate dairy.
@acarson @terryb @SteveSawczyn I make all sorts of delicious cream cheese at home. So that’s not much of a loss to me. My versions are delicious and don’t require much fat other than the natural ingrediants in things like cashews or soy.