[lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity

[Bryan Atinsky]

A block from my office in Jerusalem there is a quite decent tasting
American style bagel store, but I always feel bad buying bagels from
there because it is owned by an extremely nationalist orthodox family,
and the place is always full of those Anglophone Zionist Orthodox types
that more and more take over Jerusalem and make me happy that I only
come to Jerusalem to work. But I keep going to the bagel store, so I
guess that I am ideologically weak when it comes to my culinary tastes.
On the other hand, that is West Jerusalem for you, I would have to
starve myself if I chose places to eat for lunch by the pwner's politics.

Bryan

Joel Schalit wrote:
> 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
>