I think what I said above is about as clear as I can make it. People are welcome to disagree with what passes for my logic.
In any case, we have had previous bagel threads in which I have expressed (possibly equally illogical) opinions:
Summoning the splendiferous @SteveR, what did you think of Strathmore bagels bagels in your Stony Brook (a mere suburb of NYC, after all) days? I was introduced to bagels by a Bronx-raised friend and took to them. In the Stony Brook area I began eating them first at a miniscule shopping mall in Port Jefferson Harbor, then at Strathmore – at the latter for a decade. I liked both, but, hey, what did I know?
(I did know enough, though, to find knishes unbearably bland – but I was fresh off the batata-wada boat back then.)
