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Wonderful pics & scrumptious-looking food; sounds like a great time. π€
I've gotta feed you MTL bagels if you ever make it to this side of the planet. Hot out of the wood-fired oven, garnished with a lavish smear of cream cheese... you would roll your eyes. π
They are heaven, you know what I mean. How many times have you tasted something and just thought, " Wow?"
It's too bad we can't do 'uber-eats' over oceans.
... we probably could, but can you imagine the cost?
My goto place, St.Viateur Bagel β over on the Plateau. And no, they're NOT paying me.
Fresh bagels with cream cheese . . . mmmmmm π€€
@hippiechick1967, @JN63JPN
Montreal bagels are smaller, thinner, sweeter, and less salty than their New York City counterparts. Both are boiled, but Montreal employs wood-burning ovens for baking, while New York utilizes burlap planks.
Unless you've tasted BOTH... you donT know what you are talking about.
But I still love you. π€π
@Paulxx001
You can start a post -- Battle of the Bagels π
@hippiechick1967 @JN63JPN
In 1919, Isadore Shlafman arrived in Canada and opened the first bagel bakery in Montreal. It was called the Montreal Bagel Bakery. It was located at the back of a lane, just off of Saint-Lawrence Boulevard, which was then known as βThe Main.β
Polish immigrant Joel Russ started selling herring out of his Lower East Side pushcart in 1904 and opened a shop on the Lower East Side in 1914.
Isadore and Joel hated one another until their stepmothers intervened and told them to shake hands and make up.
They couldn't since one lived in New York and the other lived in Montreal. And that's how the bagel battles between the two cities began.
You've gotta taste them both before you can offer an educated and informed opinion.
And... NOW you've learned a little bit of history. ππ€
@hippiechick1967
They both had a blog on 'word-press'?
Ya can't trust no one, nowhere to tell ya nothing. π
@hippiechick1967
If you DO make it up here, there are only two places to find: either "Fairmount" or "St-Viateur." All the others are pretenders. The Fairmount bagel is just a smidge sweeter if you like it that way, but they both use honey as the sweetener.
Oh, and ONLY ask for a dozen of whatever is hot out of the oven. Natives prefer the sesame, although some like the poppy seed. They sell the cream cheese in a fridge near the cash and give you plastic knives. There's no place inside to sit down and eat them, so curbside is the way to go.ππ
@hippiechick1967
Gotcha, they look fabulous. Ya know? You might be a NY bagel type of gal. π€
The MTL version is too thin and chewy NOT to make a spill-over mess of a typical BECSP. The "MTLs" are likely found on a plate (dolled up with that cream cheese) right beside one's luscious heap of goodness. Here, you might make a three AM pitstop, pull them out of the paper bag (still warm), and one could go through a half dozen β sober up β and call it a fricken perfect meal. Then re-heat any crispy stragglers in the toaster the next day. Lol... π
@hippiechick1967
Perhaps you're right; six might be a stretch. But they are rarely this perfectly chubby. Three or four on an empty stomach.π²π
@hippiechick1967
Ya know, I thought about the lack of perspective in this pic as I posted it, and you're right β a dick would have provided that. Having once played 'bagel toss' with a GF, she was able to loop two and a half of those buggers onto me . We took a picture, but since we're not alone here (and I'm shy), I put that pic up in my mailbox. Pop in and take a peek. Here is a facsimile.
Stunning, thanks for sharing ππ
I try to visit this park during the cherry blossom season. The sea of pink is always so pretty! π
There are several large orchards near me. Apple blossoms should be happening in 3-4 weeks.
Apple blossoms are so pretty! I miss seeing them
Meanwhile here forestry is making virtual deserts ποΈ out of our local forests! Behold the Longleaf project!
Cutting down all the hard wood trees in favor of two species of pine trees: Longleaf and Slash. And they condemn the local timber farms for growing only Loblolly pines!
A few decades ago, Japan planted a bunch of pine trees as a restoration project after WWII and now people are suffering from pine pollen allergies.
@JN63JPN itβs the fact that they are doing the same thing they are condemning the timber farms for doing thatβs the issue here. Thing about Longleaf forests is that they have to be burned every year literally for the pines to thrive! So every spring my neighborhood gets inundated with smoke. Only plus side is that we donβt have to worry about wildfires!
@Bigwilly3392c
Man, that's no bueno!
Beautiful glad able to get there
I like this park since it doesn't get all that crowded, especially in the mornings π