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Food A Bagel With Shmear And Lox In NYC Can Cost You Anywhere From $7 To $24
From budget-friendly to big-ticket bagels, tapping into the Jewish ancestral tradition of chowing down on a circular carb can get a little complicated. But we’re here to help. This chart takes a look at the top bagel shops in New York and examines how much a good old-fashioned bagel with lox and a schmear will…
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Food He Ate A Poppyseed Bagel, Failed A Drug Test — And Lost His Job
When New York City jail guard Eleazar Paz had eggs, a poppy seed bagel and a coffee for breakfast in January of 2016, he had no idea it would cost him his $82,000 job. A random urine test revealed 522 nanograms of morphine and 358 nanograms of codeine in his system, and he was subsequently…
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Food Shelsky’s Bagels Serves An Artisanal Jewish Breakfast In Brooklyn
In the dark ages, otherwise known as 2017, visiting an appetizing store from Park Slope involved some finesse, some planning, and some knowledge of the precarious subway system. And what was an appetizing store? Just the spunky younger sister of the deli. As per Jewish law, milk and meat cannot be eaten together. This meant…
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The Schmooze PETA, You Can Take Our Meat, But You Can Never Take Our Bagels
PETA has decided that bagels — arguably the most (American) Jewish food there is — have fewer rights than animals. This is simply too far. On Tuesday at around 4 pm, PETA made a splash on Twitter (no fish or sea creatures were harmed.) Over a simple infographic a bold headline proclaimed, “Stop Using Anti-Animal…
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The Schmooze Rapper Ice-T Has Never Eaten A Bagel, Thank You, And Has No Intention Of Doing So
Rapper Ice-T is tired of fighting. He’s tired of hiding. He is who he is: A 60-year-old man who has never eaten a bagel and never intends to eat one. He said as much on social media today, sending Bagel Twitter into a fit: White people.. Don’t lose your Fn minds because I’ve never eaten…
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The Schmooze The Bagel Emoji Was Bad. Apple Heard Your Complaints Loud And Schmear.
Power to the people. Sing it across the nation: faced with public hysteria, Apple has fixed the bagel emoji. Baruch Hashem. When the Unicode Consortium, the enigmatic organization of engineers that universalizes emojis, first debuted plans for the bagel emoji in February, the American public burst spontaneously into uproar — not least of all those…
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Food The Controversial Bagel Emoji Is Finally Here
She’s flat. She’s a soft shade of beige, gently browned at the bottom. She’s naked, no toppings in sight. She’s the new bagel emoji, and she’s created a schism in the Forward editorial department. It’s breaking news in the food world: the bagel emoji that we spoke of in February (and argued about, obviously, because…
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Culture Salman Rushdie Talks Philip Roth, Mel Brooks And Bagels
Salman Rushdie is on the phone, and there is much I’d like to ask. For starters: Did Bob Dylan deserve the Nobel? On second thought, maybe better to go with the old Forward standard: What’s your favorite bagel? After all, Rushdie is aware that the truth of a character often lies in the details. That…
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