The cream-cheese-stuffed bagel is here | CNN Business

The bagel is filled with cheese after it is baked, making it more of a cream cheese bagel donut, if not in spirit then at least in form.

The bagels are “baked fresh daily and then cooled to be individually stuffed with Philly’s signature cream cheese one at a time,” according to Jay Rushin, CEO of H&H. “H&H Bagels use a pastry tool to pipe in the Philly cream cheese by hand,” he added. “The process leaves very small holes where the insertions are made, similar to a jelly donut.”

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Putting some of my NJ cred on the line here, but the ratio of cream cheese to bagel is way way too high on those. By hollowing out the bagel, you have both throw off that ratio and altered the texture of the bagel to the point where it's not really a bagel anymore, but a bagel-like pastry. The inner core of the bagel is the softest part and now the gradient has been disturbed.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah what is the ratio when you spread it, 90/10, 80/20 if you're feeling particularly gluttonous? That thing is half cream.

      • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        could be OK if they did the ratio right and injected the cream cheese when you ordered it so it's not sitting there ruining the texture of the bagel for hours.

  • jwsmrz [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Looks fucked up. Should be illegal. Probably anti-semitic technically

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I would squeeze this bagel like a tube of toothpaste and spread the cream cheese on a solid bagel

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago
    • way too much cream cheese
    • MORE IMPORTANTLY it's not fucking toasted is it now?? And you can't toast the inside without turning the cream cheese into water. It's a doughy ass bagel. Gross
      • SerLava [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        But like 50% of the bagel is gone... would you put TWICE that much cream cheese on a full bagel?? is this you

        • mittens [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          what a treat! that's double cream cheese tho!

        • Abraxiel
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          2 years ago

          Uh-oh, it's time for some geometry.

          The lower right cross section of the bagel monster is about 240 pixels across. The cream cheese portion is about 150 pixels across.

          We recall that the area of a circle is: A = πr^2

          From our measured diameter of 240 we can find a radius of 120. plug this into the formula and we have ~45,239 pixels squared as the area of the bagel's cross-section at this point.

          doing the same for the cream section, we get a result of 17,671.

          45,239 - 17,671 = 27,568

          27,568 > 17,671 so we can safely say that most of the bagel is, in fact, bagel.

          Still going to ruin the whole rhythm of tasting it though.

          • Abraxiel
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            2 years ago

            If anyone isn't satisfied I will attempt to calculate toroidal volume.

            • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I would like a weight comparison. How many grams of bagel vs grams of cream cheese? Then compare that ratio to some baseline. Put this in a table with some slides

  • ComradeSankara [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Dunkin donuts already sells these https://www.dunkindonuts.com/en/menu/snacks-and-wraps/product-stuffed-bagel-minis-id4001207

    I think either variety is way too much cream cheese

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've had these before and yeah. I like cream cheese, but it was almost disgusting with how much there was in them.

  • Abraxiel
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    2 years ago

    Also what, do you have to eat it cold? Half the appeal of a bagel is a toasted treat.

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You can toast it so it will be ice cold in the center and hot on the outside. If you warm it up all the way then you can slurp up the cream cheese from one end

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Finally, some capitalist innovation I can get behind.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      wait its a tax avoidance scheme. and also from a chain.

      i'd have to eat one to judge it

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I agree with the other people saying too much cream chesse and too little bagel. Also, not really my thing personally. But by the standards of US food posted to this site, this looks absolutely delightful. I don't feel like I'm in danger looking at this, and I would try a bite without being threatened.

  • Ziege_Bock [any]
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    2 years ago

    "The obvious question, as is often the case with food mash-ups, is why. What’s so wrong with slicing a bagel and slathering on a healthy amount of cream cheese? Why must we pre-cheese the bagel? Because, Philly owner Kraft Heinz and H&H say, the simple acts of cutting and spreading are taxed, at least in New York."

    Neat.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    actually with a lot less cream cheese, and assuming it is actually toasted - sure why not I sometimes will actually just sandwich a cream cheese bagel back together like that after toasting/spreading cream cheese over both slices.