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LET HIM WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST...BAGEL
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OF said:
on July 31, 2009 08:43 PM ET
Okay, health nuts, 'fess up, we all have a nutrional weakness, especially to begin the day.
Ordinarilly, my weekday breakfast begins with a cup of coffee, steel cut oats or bran flakes, vegetable juice or an orange, and a midmorning banana. But every now and then I weaken or digress.
What is the forbidden fruit or exception replacing the fiber of oatmeal or bran flakes? It is the common bagel. Well, not exactly. Rather, it is a blueberry bagel sliced into two halves, toasted, and leavened with cream cheese.
I confess I am a dunker; worse,. a messy dunker. The burning sensation of my fingers dipping into the just below boiling point coffee is a small price to pay for the nectar like, soggy mixture of bagel, blueberry, softened cream cheese and the caffeine brew. And if my fingers are leavened with the cream cheese in the process, licking my digits clean is an added treat.
Enjoying this exception to my regular breakfast in front of my computer presents some challenges. Dunking while operating a mouse can be hazardous to reading all messages. Since I am not ambidextrous, my right hand must perform both functions. A moistened towel is required. The routine is dunk, eat, lick fingers, use towel, scroll and repeat as necessary until breakfast is completed or all messages are read.
Ah, a blueberry bagel, toasted, and with cream cheese dunked in coffee to begin the day with a change from the ordinary: it doesn't get any better than this!
Peace, Duane(OF) |
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Hi ~~~~ I guess you are not as old as I. In the 1970's we sat at coffee counters and actually dunked donuts in little cups of over-brewed yucky coffee. This was long before the name Starbucks was invented or bagels were sold outside New York City.
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How we(at least me) are so easily misled by what is in large type!!!!
Reading your reply, I rushed immediately to my freezer to retrieve the package of leftover blueberry bagels. Reviewing the list of ingredients(in very fine print of course), I cried out in horror as it was revealed that I had been deceived by the much larger print of "blueberry bagels" on the front of the package.
My beloved blueberry bagels contained in part, "Artificial blueberry bits(sugar, yellow corn flour, corn syrup, corn starch, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil(Cottonseed and/or soybean, natural and artificial flavors, cellulose gums, artificial colors(Blue #2, Red #40, Green #3, Blue #1))..." and more artificiality almost ad infinitum.
Whoa, that was more than enough for me to reveal my artificial addiction.
What is the lesson here? One is you are never too old to learn. Another lesson is, seek the real thing rather than a substitute. Perhaps, I will convert to frozen, plain bagels sliced in half, sprinkled with REAL blue berries, and converted to OF blueberry bagels through the magic of microwave cooking for a morning meal.
Peace, Duane(OF)
I love blueberries in anything. The sad thing is I've been disappointed when on occasion I permit myself to have a treat of a blueberry bagel, it turns out that they often contain "simulated" blueberries. What the heck are they anyway? In a package I can read the ingredients but in a restaurant, you have to taste them before you know. Oh yes, I've asked the server who usually just gives me a funny look.
Ah, the blueberry bagel. A dear friend. Bagels are not the healthiest bread item, I've been told, but I counter the guilt with a protein like peanut butter. Yes, blueberry and peanut butter - I'm a strange bird.
Your post is so cleverly written! I guess I will need to make a trip to the store to purchase some blueberry bagels!
I've never realized how sensual eating a bagel could be. It's clear you truly enjoyed it!
Gee, I've never dunked a bagel..never even thought of it. However, I have to confess to being a dunker, as well. Perhaps there is a "dunkers annonymus" for we weaklins' "Hello, my name is Bobbie, and I'm a dunker". My dunkin' weakness is a good cup of coffee and, you know those shortbread cookies that the Girl Scouts sell? well, they are great dunked in coffee. And, you get those floaters that end up in the cup...soggy cookie and coffee...yum yum...I'll take your word for the bagel. Bobbie
