Some of the best foods in life are both.
Bagels - crisp skin and chewy insides, shouldn't feel like a thick piece of sliced bread.
Chocolate chip cookies - not too dry, not too doughy
Pizza crust - like bagels above
Loaf bread - not that pre-sliced crap, real hearth-baked loaves of misshapen, crusty goodness.
A few candies have a hard outer shell and gooey interiors.
Yum.
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I totally agree
and "god I love bread"
Hard outside shell and chewy center. Reminds me of an old eskimo joke about a polar bear biting into an igloo.
I suppose you'd better throw Lindor Truffles into the mix.
I guess I will have to go to the east coast to eat "real" bagels. Whenever someone (a student or visiting prof) comes to the U of Iowa campus, they bitch about the bagels.
Plenty of shitty bagels out here two. Dunkin Donuts has some pretty awful ones and huge numbers of them are eaten every day.
I grew up with the frozen Lenders variety, so my bagel blossoming was late in coming.
But as with many things, once you've had a good one, it's tougher to eat a bad one.
How about snails?
Yes, T-Clog. Many aquatic birds agree.
Mixx: I've had decent bagels, I think. But we buy the 99-cent variety shitty ones on a regular basis, for use in a variety of ad-hoc meals.
Another reason I hate New Yorkers - they, unlike me, have ready access to literally tons of delicious boiled bagels.
We get bagels at work nearly every Friday. Most times from a great local place that makes 'real' bagels. Occasionally someone will bring in bagels from the local grocery store. The contrast is stark.
As with any preference, it's not as though I won't eat a 'shitty' bagel, but it's worthwhile to recognize the good ones, and patronize them as much as possible.
As for New Yorkers, not only do they have access to a vast supply of good bagels, they're even cheap. One of the misconceptions of life in NYC is that everything is expensive. One major caveat to that is food almost anywhere other than the tourist areas of Manhattan. In neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens you can get a good bagel with egg and cheese for $2 or less. That's cheaper than almost anywhere in America. Why? Insane amounts of competition - there's 5 other places within two blocks selling the same thing.
I don't know what the bar is, here. Is Bruegger's considered good stuff, or crap?
Bruegger's is OK.
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