I like starting my day with a bagel and lox
Yes, it's very yummy with a cup of coffee
I like it with cream cheese as well which I picked up in New York
Are you from New York. I had an excellent bagel and lox my last trip to Manhattan.
No I have just visited there.  I like the bagels with poppy seeds as well
Do you ever eat them with blue berries on them or Salmon?
population, many with alternative ways of making them. Like other bakery products, bagels are available (fresh or frozen, often in many flavors) in many major supermarkets in those cities.
The basic roll-with-a-hole design is hundreds of years old and has other practical advantages besides providing more even cooking and baking of the dough: The hole could be used to thread string or dowels through groups of bagels, allowing easier handling and transportation and more appealing seller displays.
History.
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is sometimes called a "whole schmear" or "whole schmeer", indicating a bagel with cream cheese. A "slab" is a bagel served with a slab of cream cheese atop it. A "lox and a schmear" refers to a bagel with cream cheese and lox or smoked salmon. Tomato, red onion, capers and chopped hard-boiled egg are additional ingredients that are sometimes used on the lox and schmear. All of these terms are used at some delicatessens in New York City, particularly at Jewish