Today was my first visit ever to an EB franchise, Kay demanding we stop immediately when she saw one on Greentree Road so she could take a baker's dozen back to Beaver Falls.
Having been gastronomically traumatized as a child by bagels (I bit into one thinking it was a donut one fateful elementary school morning), I have never been a huge, huge fan, BUT the ones that emerge from Einstein Brothers' ovens are pretty acceptable, partcularly when some smoked salmon cream cheese "shmear' is applied onto them liberally. After sampling a few of them for a mid-afternoon snack, I found that I prefer the potato bagels more than the others.
EB also makes an above average chocolate chip cookie and an even better Mudslide Cookie.
And I dig their electric bagel slicer. They pop 'em in and *shoom*shoom* out come perfectly halved bagels.
One Bagel Bucket (13 bagels) + Four Cookies=$19.40! Ow!
That is all. Why can't I break...the chains?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rQSkgPcDM