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[tenured_feminist]

Alright, you all are depressing me. I can't eat bagels anymore! Thank goodness there are no really fabulous bagels around here, so I don't feel too bereft.

Pesach looks really different to me this year. Instead of "oy, I have to spend all damn week cooking," it's "wow, look at all the prepared baked goods I can eat!" Except for the matzoh meal and matzoh cake meal stuff, it's all gluten free.

[tenured_feminist]

Oh, and my beloved partner was just diagnosed with an allergy to garlic. That is just so wrong for a Jew! (As at least one poster on this thread knows.)

But I suppose it all works if he can deal by insisting, "go ahead, put in the garlic. I don't want everyone else to suffer. I'll just be miserable, that's fine."

[ursula]

Last word (from me, at least) on bagels.  When we visit my old college roommate and his family down in NC, we always bring a BIG bag of bagels.  They love us.

I don't like bagels.  Is that a bad thing?

[namazu]

Have you never heard of a bialy?  Oh wait, that's onion.  Same difference.  Garlic is as Jewish as, well, matzoh brei.  And "everything" bagels, when I was growing up at least, had salt, poppy seeds, onion (indavertently left off my original list), and maybe sesame seeds (can't remember).  And I grew up long before you did.

Yeah, I know what a bialy is. 
Maybe exotic garlic bagels just took a while to reach flyover country, home of traditionally bland food.

...I looked in a cookbook put out by a local synagogue sisterhood in [no date!  sometime in the late '80s, probably], and there are 12 (!) Jell-O recipes.  (There is a recipe for guacamole, though, which I didn't know they knew about back then.)

[qrypt]

Alright, you all are depressing me. I can't eat bagels anymore! Thank goodness there are no really fabulous bagels around here, so I don't feel too bereft.

Are you saying you can't have more bagels as in for the next nine days, or no more bagels ever??! 

If the latter - don't they make you hand in your mezuzot if this happens?

[infopri]

I don't like bagels.  Is that a bad thing?

Nope; more for the rest of us!!

TF, you truly have my sympathy.  No bagels?  (Almost no bread products??)   That's just so sad.

[namazu]

If the latter - don't they make you hand in your mezuzot if this happens?

You just become an honorary Separdic Jew (if you aren't already).  Then you can eat rice-based stuff to your heart's content.

[not_a_gradstudent1]

Maple syrup or honey.

[tenured_feminist]

Bagels = gluten = well, you really don't want to know.

I can remain a Jew, as I now have total license to complain about food for the rest of my natural life.

My preschooler is fascinated by all of this. He also has friends with food allergies. In his busy little brain, allergies, intolerances, and kashrut have all gotten intermingled. He told the staff at his preschool that he can't have beefaroni (contains hamburger meat and cheese) because he is allergic to it.

Maple syrup or honey.

Why not both? Nothing exceeds like excess.

[galactic_hedgehog]

If the latter - don't they make you hand in your mezuzot if this happens?

You just become an honorary Separdic Jew (if you aren't already).  Then you can eat rice-based stuff to your heart's content.

Do I qualify 'cause of my Charoset?

[pavlovian]

Matzoh Brei : Judaism :: Scrapple : Pennsylvania

[chaud]

You didn't include syrup (though someone mentioned it upthread). Always with syrup, though I do put salt in while it's cooking.

My fav bagels are ET and bialy.

[galactic_hedgehog]

There ya go.

[helpful]

The best bagels in the world are from xxxxxxxxxx. No contest. (and xxxxxx is not NYC).

[chaud]

There ya go.

Okay, so I voted.