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Wegmans Ocean store, April 27, 2019. ©
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
Yesterday at Wegmans, they were offering samples of their new chocolate chip bagels. I told the bakery supervisor that she will never see me buying one of these travesties of justice. “They are against my religion,” I told her. I would rather eat cow on a Main Street in Bombay then munch one of these in public at Wegmans. What would my grandmother think?
This is a form of cultural assassination. Bagels were brought to this country by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe after several centuries of baking authentic bagels–mostly in Poland. Where is the respect? Can you imagine gefilte fish in an Irish bar? Or matzoh ball soup at an Italian deli?
The original kinds of bagels from the “old country” were plain, onion, poppy, salt, and sesame. Later a few other kinds were added and have…
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