Zwickelmania 2012 Picks for Portland
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Feb 17, 2012 01:13 pm by PENELOPE BASS | Comments 0
Future Drinking: Feb. 13-16.
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Kickstart my Heart: Micro-Batch Honey That Tastes Like Your Neighborhood
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Feb 13, 2012 03:20 pm by Ruth Brown | Comments 0
Kettleman's were never good. Way too big and missing everything that makes a real bagel. Just eat a Tastebud bagel and get real.
Are you retarded? Tastebud makes Montreal-style bagels that take about 45 minutes to chew. How those are supposed to replace a New York-style bagel, I'm not sure. Either way, there's a reason the NE part of the country knows virtually nothing about Montreal-style bagels, and it's because the NY-style dominates the region. Because it's BETTER.
I am not a connoisseur but have many east coast friends who are, and most of them dislike all Portland attempts at bagels. To me, Kettleman's bagels are good except that they are a little bit sweet. Maybe they'll change the recipe.
Oh sweet, naive Gary. Your east coast friends wouldn't admit to a good bagel (or slice, or deli, or egg cream) on the west coast if God Almighty made it himself using only flour made of angel's wings and water from the tears of their own mothers. It's just how it is. No one makes a better bagel than the original SE Kettleman's did at first. But because the owner left NY to do the identical recipe after a decade in NY, he apparently, suddenly couldn't make bagels like NY. Maybe it really IS the water??
I moved here from the East Coast with my Jewish husband who hails from NYC. We both loved Kettlemans. Stop talking.
I'm diggin' Bagel Land on NE Fremont these days, and pick up a Tastebud bagel at New Seasons every once in a while. Gonna try and get down to SE sometime over the weekend and check out Spielman's.
If a public-spirited legislator will introduce it, I'm prepared to draft a short amendment to the Unlawful Trade Practices Act that would make it illegal to advertise or sell as a ready-to-eat bagel a bread product that has not been first boiled and then baked.
I love the entitlement attitude that so many Portlanders have about bagels. WTF, bagels?
The Kettleman's guy SOLD his business to the "vastly inferior" Einsteins folks, but bagel purists abusing Einsteins for running their business their way. It's okay for the hard, chewey bagel guy to sell-out, but it's not okay for the soft, yummy bagel guys to run a profitable business?
Sure they goofed on Facebook, but who cares? Facebook? Really? Really!?
I agree with Briney Kettleman's bagels sucked. But it sucks more that people are harassing Einsteins about how they choose to run their business. Fight a more important fight.
In case you haven't noticed, moron, Portland doesn't like corporations that take away local products that we happen to love. Soft, yummy bagels? LOL! Good one!
What?
Nice of you to represent all of Portland, you pretentious anti-corporate pawn, by telling us what we love and don't love. Only problem is your beloved "local product" was SOLD out from under you by it's owner, Jeffery Wang. This wasn't some kind of takeover plot to ensure that we had bagels we could actually stomach, it was pure corporate greed on Wang's part.
But go on and whine about it, Whitey. And while you're at it why don't you grab a $tarbuck$, put on your Nike shoes, power up your Intel-powered MacBook Air, and go back to looking for a job doing something creative that satisfies your pure Northwestern spirit ... despite your being from New Jersey.
Moron, indeed.