[lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity

[Joel Schalit]

Yah, my impression too. I've always found it easier to buy miniature 
chocolate croissants in Tel Aviv than bagels.
When I visit my parents, I go grocery shopping at the supermarket in 
the mall in Ofakim, and the bagels there are
totally old school tho - and plentiful. Big Russian immigrant community 
there, probably that's why.

Joel

On Sep 10, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Bryan Atinsky wrote:


> Funny thing, in Israel a bageleh is more or less a pretzel...often with
> salt.
>
> Though it has changed somewhat in the past years of Americanization of
> Israel, mostly, the only places to buy American style bagels is in
> locations with high anglo-saxon populations (especially Jerusalem).
>
> Bryan
>
> Shane Mage wrote:
>> Real bagels are always available at Zabar's--the ones I've been eating
>> for nigh on to 70 years now.  No salt on the outside! 40 cents per.
>> Across the
>> street at H&H their bagels are indeed sweet, doughy, and grossly
>> overpriced.
>
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