Bagel dispute: open vs. closed

[c.n.budz]

Open if I'm seated and enjoying the bagel with only one thing on it, i.e. only cream cheese.

Closed if I'm driving or if I'm having more than one thing on the bagel such as butter and jelly

 

[Drunkensatyr]

Open all the way with Cream Cheese, Lox, Red Onion and bean Sprouts.

 

[BlindLemonLars]

what kind of bagels you guys eating? those fake bread bagels?

Sadly, the "round bread" bagel is the only variety most people will ever have. The real deal used to be the norm here in Los Angeles, but it's getting harder and harder to find. We've got great tortillas though!

What's with all this eating of closed bagels in cars?!? Don't eat while you're driving...it's bad enough that ya'll are on the phone!

 

[cd2448]

open is for toasted and if you are not driving around. open is also acceptable as a sub for toast during a more leisurely breakfast altogether.

closed is for untoasted bagels, bacon-bagels, driving. driving around eating. and talking on the phone. and playing risk.

eating cream-cheese on a closed bagel, it's going to squish out, so you can't put as much cheese on it. so - of course - that's rubbish.

 

[blacklab]

A bagel with more than cream cheese and ONE additional ingredient is a sandwich and must be closed. Cream Cheese + one ingredient = open faced.

 

[EvilTOJ]

I don't eat anything that's communist, and my grandpappy said the bagel is a communist plot to take over the USA.

 

[blacklab]

I don't eat anything that's communist, and my grandpappy said the bagel is a communist plot to take over the USA.

You must be real iffy on the wrap, too.

 

[BlindLemonLars]

A bagel with more than cream cheese and ONE additional ingredient is a sandwich and must be closed. Cream Cheese + one ingredient = open faced.

Not so. I like cream cheese, lox, thin sliced onions, and capers if they're on the deli plate. I'll throw sliced tomatos on there too, at least once the salmonella scare is over. Open faced, of course. That's how we roll in the civilized world of bagel eating.

Oh, and that other half of the bagel...be a mensch, and leave it for someone else to eat.

 

[Brakeman_Brewing]

You get more bagel when its open, duh.

 

[todd_k]

when I make them at home, open... but sometimes when I order one when I'm out getting coffee, they make it closed and wrap it up so I end up eating it closed.

 

[BrewinRob]

Open all the way.... You get not 1... but 2 to eat... :rockin:

 

[tdavisii]

open and im willing to fight anyone who says closed

 

[monty73741]

i feel that if you have time open face, but if your on a run out the door driving.. closed face

 

[beergears]

.... that anyone who thinks that eating a cream-cheese bagel closed-face is socially acceptable behavior is wrong. And a douchebizzag.

I dunk my cream-covered bagel in coffee.. (but you were overseas recently, so it should not be shocking to you...)

 

[Hopleaf]

with a spread: open
with meat or egg: closed

 

[david_42]

If I can get real bagels, I eat them plain & uncut.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

If the bagel is that good, there is no need for the cheese so then there is no dispute.

My suggestion. Buy better bagels.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Closed bagel? With cream cheese?? The Jerkstore called and they're outta whoever said that!

As others have posted... closed is ONLY acceptable when there's a meat involved or perhaps some sort of sandwich filling...

just cream cheese though??? Open all the way... any talk otherwise is crazytalk and whoever suggests it should be beaten severely about the head and face with a blunt object.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Closed bagel? With cream cheese?? The Jerkstore called and they're outta whoever said that!

As others have posted... closed is ONLY acceptable when there's a meat involved or perhaps some sort of sandwich filling...

just cream cheese though??? Open all the way... any talk otherwise is crazytalk and whoever suggests it should be beaten severely about the head and face with a blunt object.

How about a day old bagel?