Vraie fiction: Tesco calls them bagels...

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Tesco calls them bagels...

This weekend, my wife and I went to shop in Tesco. In the bakery section, there were these so-called bagels. I could not believe it. They looked so surreal, I had to take a picture. My wife said I was embarrassing. I replied: "They are embarrassing to sell them." This is, I think, a great unknown line. Then, I published the picture on Facebook, because such travesty has to be named and shamed. I wrote: "Tesco calls them bagels. I call them cardboard doughnuts." This deserves to be another great unknown line. Anyway, as a guy from Montreal, who survived starvation thanks to quality bagels, these are a crime against gastronomy.

7 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...: That's right -- those are just regular buns with holes in them. Nowhere near real Montreal bagels!; 21 January 2015 at 19:57
Ellen in Oregon said...: As a native New Yorker, I have never found a authentic bagel in the Pacific NW. They all seem to be some kind of roll dough that they make all their other bread products from. If these bakeries don't want to take the time to do it right, they shouldn't bother with these fake bagels. A real bagel is placed in boiling water after the dough rises. That's what gives it a crisp exterior &slightly chewy interior. The hard water in the NE also contributes to the authentic taste & texture. Anyone who thinks these chain store abominations are real bagels, has ever experienced eating a freshly baked NY or Montreal bagel hot off the racks. Using roll dough & poking a hole in the middle doesn't make it a bagel. I started making my own out of desperation.; 21 January 2015 at 20:42
jaz@octoberfarm said...: you are so right....they are dried out bread shaped doughnuts. i pity those who have never tasted a proper bagel!; 21 January 2015 at 23:31
jaz@octoberfarm said...: i think that should have been doughnut shaped bread but you know what i mean. it's been a loooong day!; 21 January 2015 at 23:32
Cynthia said...: Looks like bread disguised as Bagel!; 22 January 2015 at 10:28
PJ said...: Parlant de bagels, tu checkeras les bandes dessinées de Pearl Before Swine du 21 janvier 2015.

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2015/01/21

(Et du 19 aussi)

http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2015/01/21; 22 January 2015 at 17:26
PJ said...: Lien pour le 19; 22 January 2015 at 17:27