[lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity

[Jerry Monaco]

On 9/9/06, Jesse Lemisch <utopia1 at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> This leads me to some speculations and questions about bagels and ethnicity.
> Far from a Jewish nationalist myself, I do feel that what has become of the
> bagel is an offense against ethnicity, particularly here on the upper West
> Side, and similar offenses against other ethnicities would bring angry
> responses.

Oh that is just silly.  think about what happened to the pizza, or to
sushi... But who complains?  Except for the fact that I can rarely get
good pizza in the city where my great grandparents family first made
it 75 years ago, I have no real complaints.  In the late 80s and early
90s in Manhattan you could rarely even find an Italian owned pizza
place, they were mostly owned by Albanians.  With pizza they lacked
imagination.  I look forward to the time when Mexicans and Japanese
own the pizza places here.  Then maybe it will get interesting again.

Jerry


> H & H (Hispanic) are highly sugared; Absolute (Thai) -- along
> with most other sources --  lacks the traditional hardness on the surface
> (during WWII there were jokes about Jewish bombardiers dropping bagels on
> the enemy). It may be that Jewish-made bagels have also deteriorated.
>
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