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I remember an amusing story on one of these threads about a New Yorker who moved to the midwest and discovered that the only bagels people out there knew were mass-produced bread with a hole in the middle, like Lender's. The guy was back in New York and picked up a bunch of real bagels and brought them back for the people in his office as a treat.
They didn't appreciate them at all. Too big, too chewy, too this, too that. Disliked all the things that make a bagel a bagel. They preferred bread with a hole in the middle.
I'm sure most everyone living in AR would react the same way. We have one, 1/2 way decent bagel shop here, but most people have no idea what a good bagel really tastes like, especially the texture.
I eat truly ripe fruits all summer long and into the fall. I also have some decent bakeries around and bake my own bread with soft wheat (European style) and sourdough starters.
While the food culture and availability of fresh ingredients is better in most (but not all) of Europe, most people who criticize American food can't see past the supermarket aisles.
I'm really missing my conch. Hurricane Dorian destroyed my part of the Bahamas and then the recovery overlapped coronavirus and I haven't been able to go back since last summer. My carefully rationed stash of conch from last August has finally run out.
The only other places I've lived were in NOLA for a very short time and Maryland which I can't remember as I was 1 or 2. But I have incorporated food from both places in our menus, so I don't miss it.
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You can get them, just not cheaply at supermarkets. Mass-produced fruit is bred for hardiness in shipping and/or to look good, but the taste is lost. I will never ever buy certain things, like peaches, from a supermarket. They are tasteless baseballs. This means, of course, that I will only have good peaches in our short season here in NJ, but I'd rather enjoy them in season and go without the rest of the year than buy the hard tasteless ones. I don't see the point.
Buy stuff from the farm stands or the farmer's markets in the cities where it's brought in that day from the country. Yes, you'll pay more.
Yes, mass-produced flowers are also scentless. Again, bred for appearance.
And the juice dribbling down your chin will tell you it was worth it!
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I miss having a Polish provisioner or two nearby that makes their own sausages, pirogi, and stuffed cabbage. . And the variety of things available at a good neighborhood corner bakery.
I remember an amusing story on one of these threads about a New Yorker who moved to the midwest and discovered that the only bagels people out there knew were mass-produced bread with a hole in the middle, like Lender's. The guy was back in New York and picked up a bunch of real bagels and brought them back for the people in his office as a treat.
They didn't appreciate them at all. Too big, too chewy, too this, too that. Disliked all the things that make a bagel a bagel. They preferred bread with a hole in the middle.
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I'm sure most everyone living in AR would react the same way. We have one, 1/2 way decent bagel shop here, but most people have no idea what a good bagel really tastes like, especially the texture.
I miss a good NY bagel. 99% of bagels in the rest of the country are poor imposters.
I remember going to the Jewish quarter in Rome searching for bagels, and being unable to fine them. Apparently the bagel is an exclusive NY thing.
I miss a good NY bagel. 99% of bagels in the rest of the country are poor imposters.
I remember going to the Jewish quarter in Rome searching for bagels, and being unable to fine them. Apparently the bagel is an exclusive NY thing.
Good ones pretty much are. We did have a decent place in DAllas and there are areas in So Ca, especially areas near L.A. they do a darn good job.
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