Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)
Having grown up in a non bagel rich country, I've been puzzled ever since I first encountered them. What's the point of the weird shape? What's wrong with a square or even circular piece of bread <i>without</i> an inconvenient hole in the middle?<p>For an outside viewer, it looks like someone went out of their way to create a shape that makes it as difficult to deal with as possible, and then mass psychosis took over and everyone went all <i>Hail bagel shape!</i> for no good reason.<p>What am missing?