Happy National Bagel Day! (also National Pizza Day)

[thewayne]

Sorry, for Americans only. I don't know when those days are in the UK or Canada. :-)

Just kidding, what the heck difference does your location make? If you're in a position to enjoy a pizza or bagel today, go for it! Sadly, we don't have a good source for fresh bagels here, nor any exceptional pizza. *sigh*

It's been a couple of months since I had a good bagel, though I had an acceptable bagel in DC last week. I was intending to get one at DFW on my flight back, but the timing didn't work. And I don't think I've had a good pizza since Christmas, I had some time to spend waiting for a computer repair, so I went to a friend's restaurant in Scottsdale and had an excellent chicken/arugula/fig sauce pizza for lunch.

I'm planning to go back to Phoenix next month for the Renaissance festival, I shall make sure good pizza will be included in the menu! (There is good pizza in Las Cruces, but there's lots of good food there, so sometimes desire for pizza gets overridden)

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Oo, that does sound like rather a nice pizza. =:9 I imagine the fig influence would lend a gentle sweetness?

Mm, whilst there certainly are days when pizza is absolutely the right thing, when there's a broad choice, it's so tempting to go for the options not usually available.

I think my problem with bagels is they're too heavy for just a snack, but not really enough for a meal, unless you're perhaps in a serious hurry, and don't want the nearly-meat of the burger chains. Not to say I dislike them, though. ^_^

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I think bagels are good for a 'get you going' breakfast. When I was at NIH last Monday, the lodge that I was staying at on-campus had mini-muffins of various sorts and plain bagels with a few different toppings available: peanut butter, jelly, butter, and of course cream cheese. Pop 'em in a toaster and it was an acceptable way to start the day.

Normally the Safra Lodge is for longer-term patients and family and the community kitchen has BIG refrigerators that people can bring their own food, but I'm only there for two nights, so that's just not sensible for me. If I were there longer, I know there's a Trader Joe's a few miles away and I'd stock up. But what they have is enough to get me sufficiently functional for the clinic, and once I'm there and it's 11am, they have a big food court in the basement, which is enough until we meet friends for dinner elsewhere.

So it all works out.

There was a bagel place that I frequented in Phoenix when I was working for the police dept, my fav was an asiago cheese bagel with a smoked salmon schmeer. That was quite nice. Sadly they closed -- the bagel place, not the PD -- and it's not easy finding Bruegger's Bagels in Phoenix. Einstein Bros is OK, but I think Bruegger's was better. Sadly I know of only a couple genuine Jewish delis that I'd consider getting bagels at in Phoenix.