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the only bread that survives boiling, baking, and your worst Monday.
means A dense, chewy ring-shaped bread roll that's boiled before it's baked, giving it a glossy crust and distinctive shape.
from From the Yiddish 'beygl,' related to dialectal German 'beugel' (a ring or bracelet) and tied to the root meaning 'to bend' — the same bending family as English 'bow' and 'bagel's' own looped shape. The word arrived in English with Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and the boiled-then-baked bread came with it.
- boil first
- Briefly boiled before baking, hence the chewy crust
- ring theory
- The hole helped bakers string and carry dozens
- polish roots
- Born in 1600s Poland, possibly gifted to a king
- space snack
- Montreal bagels orbited Earth with an astronaut in 2008
- tennis slang
- A 6-0 set is called a bagel for the zero
for instance
katz's delicatessen — nyc institution since 1888, famous for hand-rolled bagels
montreal bagel — sweeter, smaller style from montreal's st-viateur bagel shop, established 1957