I’ve noticed that my Long Island hometown bagel shop (Village Bagels, Syosset) and others in the area have “flat bagels”, and use them to make sandwiches. Is this common in greater NY?
Some of the First Avenue bagel shops such as David’s sell flagels. I like them as an alternative to a massive Ess-A bagel, of which I used to eat two at one sitting and now am down to a half per sitting.
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Flagels! Thanks. I was trying to remember the word.
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YW – kind of a cross between a bagel and a bialy.
yup. used to take these to work all the time… along with an apple and a whole carrot to peel into my office wastebasket. Those days of forced (by being chained to my desk) consumption and expense control are over.
In case not everyone has had the pleasure of an Ess-A pumpernickel or garlic bagel, MyFitnessPal estimates those bad boys at 500 calories each!
please don’t confront us with facts, they are out of fashion and have no place in a thread about bagels 
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Banish those calorie counts from here, sir!
And don’t infect the pizza thread with them either!
Unfortunately when one single item is potentially 1/4 of my daily allotment I need to keep it in mind. Fortunately when I visit NYC I do enough walking to earn a whole Ess-a. 
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I read this wonderful Calvin piece when I was 17, seems like it belongs here, I also posted it in a cream cheese thread. It’s a long, funny article, well worth the read. I wonder what he thinks of Ben’s moving to spring valley:
“Having heard a number of people discuss the Last Straw that drove them from the city, I realize that if I didn’t leave when Ben’s Dairy started closing Sundays I’m probably here for good.”
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Thank you for sharing this! Though it was published a few weeks before I was born, I loved reading it. Old NY stories, especially about long vanished food shops, really speak to me.
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Loved reading this in a Trillin collection when I was a kid
I think it was in american fried he wrote something like “of course the three best restaurants in the United States are in Kansas City.” I had a number of post-graduate job offers but all things being equal, I chose the position that started with a 6 week training class in Kansas City
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Are they available in nyc?
Otherwise it’s the wrong thread for your review 
Darn. Should have phrased it differently and it’s too late to edit. Will delete. Should have asked if there’s anything like it in NYC.
Eh, I was just kidding
lol well point taken kidding or not. Those bagels are fire. NYC deserves them.
