It is a problem with the city. There is a place called Brooklyn Bagel near the courthouse metro in Arlington. They aren't astounding but they are quite serviceable- NYC average, but good for the area.
There are NO google results for "Torus Asunder"? Stanbly is the only person ever to think of that?
And post it on the Internet apparently. Two for "torus a new asshole".
Onion glad he didn't add "sesame".
2: "Torus, Ass-Thunder" is one of those little inflatable donuts you sit on.
Who's loafing?
If this is the thread for nattering on, I have some natter. Further to this comment, I am in fact working remotely, as they say, even now; or at least, I am monitoring and updating the situation. I may or may not have to go in tomorrow. It's very dramatic.
In any event, I just checked the bookshop's feedback, and it's all lovely (of course), then I saw this one:
"Keep up the good work!"
Heh. Right-O, however that might be spelled. We're on it, you silly.
No, I am not behaving like a blithering idiot, why do you ask?
Bagel lovers in DC needn't despair. Bethesda Bagels is perfectly serviceable, and Bethesda is basically in DC.
There's also H&H bagels available at the Calvert-Woodley liquor store, they're warm in the morning.
I'm not going to opine on the bagels at 2 Amy's until I try them.
But yes, DC bagels suck more reliably than bagels elsewhere.
And by "elsewhere" I mean New York. And Baltimore.
There's also H&H bagels available at the Calvert-Woodley liquor store, they're warm in the morning.
Didn't H&H just go out of business?
The ones at that store are day-old.
12: Only the Upper West Side location. There are others.
Used to be you could get good bagels (and really great lox) at Krupin's. Naturally, Morty retired and moved to Florida, and the place closed. Too bad.
As it stands, Firehook bagels, if toasted = serviceable.
13: I think they ship them only part-baked so they can be finished on site. I've definitely found them warm some mornings.
Although I don'tt know if they get shipped *every* day, so quite posssibly they age on site too.
More of a meh-gel, really.
Or a smeh-gel (since it has no ring of power).
15: Firehook for me is firmly in the "meh" category; if I'm going to poison myself with white flour and lose the day to a carb coma, it had better be fucking awesome.
If a fresh bagel needs toasting, commit it then to the flames.
Cripe, I'd hate to argue with you guys about what constitutes a good muffin.
It's shockingly easy to bake a good muffin. It's impossible to buy one.
It's impossible to buy one.
The local Costco here bakes great muffins.
Define "good muffin."
Nah, I'm kidding. (On Meet the Press this morning, panelists wound up asking one another "What is a 'downgrade', really; what is a 'credit rating', after all?'" and "What do you mean by 'revenues'?" and "What is growth, really? What is stimulus?") (Austan Goolsbee was making faces in order to avoid rolling his eyes.)
If it has blueberries, it's a muffin or a waffle.
The Ecuador Independence Day parade just passed by my house. It was very moving to see the local Ecuadorian community come into their own a bit more.
¡Viva Ecuador! ¡Abajo el colonialismo! Dump the Spanish off your back!
Could you ask them about the bagels in Ecuador?
¿Pardon, señor, puede usted decirme dónde conseguir un bagel decente en Guayaquil?
I probably could, but the pronunciation would be awful, and it wouldn't be idiomatic.
Remember, "bagel" is pronounced "bah-hell".
Austan Goolsbee was making faces in order to avoid rolling his eyes.
Hertz, donut?
12: The UWS location lost its lease. There's a UES location. (Or is there? I mean, it has the same name, but for some reason I think that maybe it's not owned by the same people? IDK!)
"What is a 'downgrade', really; what is a 'credit rating', after all?'" and "What do you mean by 'revenues'?" and "What is growth, really? What is stimulus?"
They're all social constructs!
I woke up in NYC this morning and got a bagel at...Dunkin' Donuts (because we were pressed for time).
Pressed for time, but to health conscious to get a donut? Speaking of healthy food, popcorn counts as whole grain, no?
Moving out of Park Slope means I never eat bagels now. About once a month I'd get up early and go to La Bagel Delight (stupid name, excellent bagels). There was another really good bagel shop, Bergen Bagels (less friendly, but slightly better bagels) nearby. In East Williamsburg, all we have is decent burritos.
My actual all-time favorite bagels in the world live in Oakhurst, NJ. Their unsurpassed greatness is conceded by even the most parochial NYers once tried.
I've probably never had great bagels, so with the exception of mass-packaged grocery-store-shelved packs - and the disgusting thawed-from-frozen bagels I tried once as a kid - I'm pretty much fine with most bagel-place bagels.
I mean, they're bagels. Do they make me sick? No? Is it enough that I'm not still hungry? Yes? Then they're fine.
38 -- Another pet theory of mine about NYC confirmed. The greatest traditional "New York" foodstuffs (i.e., food of Ashkenazi Jews and Italian-Americans who emigrated in the early 20th century, with some regional quirks) are found outside NY proper, whether in Jersey, Connecticut, or farther afield, following the descendants of those groups.
Of course, my view is that no one should ever eat pizza or a bagel (or, especially, a pizza-bagel), so there's that.
I've heard that once you've tried a parochial New Yorker, you'll never go back.
40: I thought of you whilst reading an article about archaeologists discovering rocks cave people use to smash the grains they were eating. LIES!!!!
pizza-bagel
I've put a bagel, cut in two, with cheese and salami on both halves in a toaster and made something kind of like this. It was fine.
If I'm just having cream cheese, I don't like the bagel to be toasted. However, I've found that this might be the most difficult request you can make at a place that normally toasts everything. It completely messes with the process.
42: Er, useD. I am sure, Halford, that you smash no grains with rocks.
I do smash grains, but only with my fists to warn others off of them.
45: On stage with your band, Wheat Beat Manifesto.
Famous C-ville sign: The Bagels are coming.
Good god, what was I thinking. Had a Firehook bagel this morning and remembered. They suck. Uniformly stiff and chewy, without any crust even when toasted. Also, waxy. Oh the humanity.
The link in 33 is absolutely excellent. It's like to make me cry, even.
For a chain, I think that Brueggers makes decent bagels. There's a place down the street from me which claims to import theirs from New York, but they bring them in frozen, and they're not great.
I also like Montreal-style bagels.
Very good bagels are available from the Brooklyn Bagel Bakery in Los Angeles. Reportedly, the Brooklyn Bagel in Beverly Hills is also all right. No relation.
In East Williamsburg, all we have is decent burritos.
I fail to believe that a decent burrito exists east of the Altamont Pass.
I don't like burritos, just the stuff inside burritos.
I fail to believe that a decent burrito exists east of the Altamont Pass.
Really? The entire Southland can't muster a single good burrito?
It's not my argument, but if you want to put all your chips on Mission-style, you could make that case and still be geographically literate.
I despise Mission-style burritos, and am not a fan of burritos generally, but Josh may be right in that limited sense.
With that said, the all-meat burrito at King Taco is pretty good. Still not in the loathsome "Mission style."
I would travel a long way -- and, regrettably, I would have to -- for some tacos from Senor Fish. I mean, now that we're talking about tacos.
Did you hate Mission-style burritos before you went paleo?
This conversation (and reading up on the history of the burrito) is tempting me to drive to a taqueria.
Fresh Slat comes to New England !
'Active bar crowd. Children would be welcome here.'
There are some fantastic bagels in the Boston area. In Brookline, predictably, There are also plenty of good (Mission-style) burritos available. Damned if I've been able to find a good fish taco, though.
62: I really liked Kupel's when I was a kid, but I don't like them as much anymore. Do you have any recs?
Fish tacos would be great.
60 -- pretty much. Always seemed too
big w/too much rice and a bad filling/meat ratio.
I guess I'm a bit pickier about burritos than I am about bagels. I like the better ones more than I like the better bagels, but there's also higher chance that some of them will make me feel kind of sick.
Presumably, having grown up in the bay area, what I think of as an ordinary burrito is a mission-style burrito.
Reading the wikipedia entry on Mission-style burritos makes me think that's the only style of burrito I've ever had, but maybe also I'm not understanding what exactly constitutes non-Mission style.
If she moves, it isn't really Mission-style.
66: Yeah, I mean, it seems like the only non-Mission Style burritos you see are the frozen/refrigerated type, and Taco Bell's various offerings. So, like, a real burrito is almost always going to be Mission Style.
Pineda Tacos here makes the best burritos. I've had burritos in the Mission District, and Pineda's are better.
Rice versus no rice, Stanley. I'm sure there are other features to consider, but that's the key variable.
wikipedia entry on Mission-style burritos
[ingestion needed]
You would be hard pressed to find a mission-style burrito in New Mexico. I'm not sure where I would even start to look.
I suppose Farmington would be a logical place to look.
That appears to be the only Qdoba in the state. There are also no Chipotles.
Anyway, my point is that burritos in traditional New Mexican cuisine are not Mission-style.
Oh, man. I'm eating some food right now, and it's so good. But you guys can't have any, 'cause it's NACHOS!!!
HA! Get it?