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Bagels

Future Fanatic

Future Fanatic

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For a variety of reasons, it seems I will find myself in Jersey in the near future.
Sadly, I find that the bagel shop on Elmora Avenue in Elizabeth is no more.
Where could I find the best traditional bagels (salt bagels, of course) in NJ?
Not the fluffy rolls in the shape of a doughnut that they try to pass off as a "bagel" today, but the thick, doughy, chewy bagels of my youth. You know the kind that if you ate two of them, you were stopped up for a day or two...

And to make this about flyfishing, suppose you needed to buy a dozen or two for the guys for breakfast before a TU meeting or some river restoration project... where would you go?

Thanks, I'm counting on the NEFF crowd...
 
Future Fanatic said:
For a variety of reasons, it seems I will find myself in Jersey in the near future.
Sadly, I find that the bagel shop on Elmora Avenue in Elizabeth is no more.
Where could I find the best traditional bagels (salt bagels, of course) in NJ?
Not the fluffy rolls in the shape of a doughnut that they try to pass off as a "bagel" today, but the thick, doughy, chewy bagels of my youth. You know the kind that if you ate two of them, you were stopped up for a day or two...

And to make this about flyfishing, suppose you needed to buy a dozen or two for the guys for breakfast before a TU meeting or some river restoration project... where would you go?

Thanks, I'm counting on the NEFF crowd...
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Manhattan bagel.
 
Rusty Spinner said:
Speak for yourself, that's a south Jersey thing. Up north, we're bagel eaters. But all of New Jersey loves a Taylor ham, egg and cheese sandwich on a round roll!
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No that's a North Jersey thing. Down here in the great state of South Jersey it's scapple or Bacon Egg & Cheese please. So as would you say speak for yourself that's a North Jersey thing (LOL). In North Jersey it's Subs, in South Jersey Hoagies. North Jersey Fairs, South Jersey, Farmer Fairs and Piney Fest, Rodeos, Blueberries, Cranberry Bogs and a Little of the south at times and most of all dam good Philly Cheesesteaks. It is truly amazing how diverse this state is that we all live in and try to survive.
 
Andy B said:
Down here in the great state of South Jersey it's scapple
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We have scrapple in north Jersey too, we're just too smart to eat it:)

My good friend Agust would disagree with me on the eating part. It's apparently fine dining in Warren County:crap::):)
 
I've also heard tell that crumb cake is a jersey thing. I'm from north jersey and grew up thinking that everybody in the country ate crumb cake and Taylor ham, egg and cheese.
 
Moved backed to South Jersey a little under 10 years ago. My family when I would come up to visit in central and North Jersey always would ask me to bring Cinnabon up. That was back in the 80's before it eventually migrated to central and North Jersey. Down here in South Jersey, some of our really good Diners serves Cheese Bread. This is a really tasty treat before dinner, and when made fresh like Mastori's or the Vincent Town diner, or the Golden Dawn diner and so on. This is one thing I miss at some of the really good diners in the north. This state is so diverse and people different in each region. NJ is a small state when you look at all the others but is the most diverse than any other state in the country. Could things be better, Yes. But for now it is home until I move back home to Texas when it's time to retire. Austin is looking better all the time.
 
A little off topic but not really, WTF is it with people butchering the Italian language when they order food. is that just a NJ thing? Nothing says "I am confidently ignorant" than hearing some ignoramus butcher Italian, I think my favorite is Pruzhoot......and Mootz.... A few fluent Italian speaking friends of mine have the same theory on how the languge got ruined in NJ.
 
Try Bagels for you on Morris Tpk in Short Hills or the Bagel Chaetae in downtown Millburn. The hell with the Bagel try the Millburn Deli across the street you will not be sorry.
 
Are bagels even something you drive out of the way for? I've never had one thats been good enough to really distinguish itself as something special.
 
emoussa said:
Are bagels even something you drive out of the way for?
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Yes.

emoussa said:
I've never had one thats been good enough to really distinguish itself as something special.
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If you enjoy a good bagel, you might not know what ya got until you live a hundred miles away and the only bagel you can buy, is a frozen Lender's Bagel or one baked in the corporate kitchen in the back of the store, using a recipe developed in an office. The bagel's here are just a bread dough dipped in hot water and baked, giving it a fluffy "risen" texture... There was a time when I was in college(with MANY students from downstate and Jersey) that a local establishment used to have bagels flown in from nyc a couple of times per week. Yes, flown in.
 
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