• CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    God the edible is hitting me so hard I saw this post here and was like “holy shit this is so funny I need to post this to Hexbear immediately”

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    This is bait, Germans are annoyingly obsessed with baked goods (or i guess boiled in that case) and ofc you can get bagles here.

    • dead [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      The joke is that bagels were invented by Jewish people from Poland and Germany is Nazis. When I google 'german bagels', every website and reddit post that I see says that bagels are rare in Germany.

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        • Barx [none/use name]
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          6 months ago

          They originated in that general region from the Jewish populations there living under Euro-imposed apartheid systems. What is currently Poland, Belarus, Czhech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary

  • lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I don't understand bagels actually. Why put a whole in a sandwich?? It's just worse ergonomics than a regular sandwich! I'm sure it's some capitalist shenanigans to trick people into thinking it's cool and containing more food than it actually does

    • Rom [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      idk but everything bagels with cream cheese are fucking delicious

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      Ring shaped bread predates capitalism by at least 300 years. It’s just more efficient to make in certain cases.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      A hole going thru the part that would be the furtherst away from the heat makes the whole thing to cook faster, allowing more production with the same capital and labor and shit, so, yeah

      But it would made sense from a comunist planning perspective too, cuz it's more energy and labor efficient

      • davel [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        More quickly and more evenly: you don’t end up with an overcooked outside and undercooked center.

        • Vncredleader
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          6 months ago

          Making it way more efficient. Its funny how when you look into things you find human ingenuity and not just "eh capitalists probably did it for no reason".

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Bagels are boiled before they're baked, which gives them a chewier texture that toasts really well. It's an entirely different thing to just regular toast or bread.

      Source: AYYY I'M WALKIN' HYEER

    • iridaniotter [she/her, she/her]
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      6 months ago

      Well you know how when you take a bite, cream cheese comes out of the sides and ruins the sandwich? The hole is there so it can escape in even more directions. i-think-that

        • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
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          6 months ago

          Show

          The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

          نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

          volcel-police

    • davel [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      A bagel is not a sandwich and you suck at topology.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      it's so bagel salesmen can string them around their necks before walking to the marketplace

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      It's a thicc bit of dough and the hole is for surface area when baking. Otherwise you'd either get a raw center or burned edges. Also they're not just bread rings, bagels are a different process which involves boiling the dough prior to baking and other stuff depending on the region (Montreal bagels>NY bagels btw). They're not really intended as sandwich material and that's a more recent use for bagels, that being said I fuckinf love a bagel sandwich.

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    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      It makes it cook more evenly and also I think medieval bakes used to transport bread on wooden racks so bread with holes were more of a thing back then cuz you could easily stick them on the pegs. Pretzels and donuts also have holes in them. But I'm not a historian so maybe I'm talking out my ass shrug-outta-hecks

      Edit: Some guy on reddit-logo has a more comprehensive explanation.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      it's just hard donut that allows you to put a spread on it

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      I had heard they were made to put them on poles so the kids who all ran around the streets selling them could carry more. I figure a pole of bagels sticking up above the crowd would also kinda self-advertise. Might be bullshit though.

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      It's fun! You good make the exact same thing as batons but why have a bread baton when you can have a CIRCLE?

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  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    Nothing brings me closer to heaven than a warm cinnamon bagel with a nice strawberry cream cheese

  • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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    6 months ago

    Emo Philips bit from 1985

    Edit: Apparently he was still using it in his routine in the 2010s: https://youtu.be/xywEDvBTzM0?t=156 | https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=xywEDvBTzM0&t=156

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Do people here like when they smother lots of cream cheese on? I personally do but know people who get agitated by it.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      I make my own at home cause I have vegan cream cheese there. The grocery store near me sells it and it's actually a buck cheaper than the dairy stuff. However in my bagel ordering days, it never seemed to be just the right amount. It was either like a tablespoon thick or you could see the bread through it thin. You want like 2mm of thickness.id prefer they go with too much cause I can always scrape it off

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Vegan cream cheese yeah. And I warm the bagel in the toaster but don't actually toast it. Turns out great.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      6 months ago

      big smear small smear just let me make a bagel sandwich for chrissakes

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