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| - So, I hobbled my broken-footed rear-end into this place after getting a couple of amazing deliveries through door-dash. The place is TINY and it was getting pretty hot in there but, with the exception of the heat, I felt like I was time machined back to when I worked at JFK airport and it was my turn to pick up our regular order of bagels from the tiny shop just downstairs from our office. You could almost say this guy is like a "Bagel Nazi" in the most complementary way but I think he's more like a "Bagel Whisperer." He creates work-of-art bagels and has to train the uneducated customers. In front of me, a guy with the whole-arm tattoos and a forward-facing Coyotes cap read off his orders (no orders are "taken" they are just spoken and relayed to the back kitchen). He read, "One everything bagel with the bread dug out." The owner first just looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language, and then said, "Why would you wanna do that?" The Coyote fan said, "It's for my mother in law." The bagel man had a serious look of disdain on his face and said very little after that. The next guy had a little kid with him and said, "One toasted plain bagel with cream cheese..." and the Owner interrupted, "These bagels are very hot, you don't need to toast them." The guy was about to speak again and he said, "TRUST me." I had to speak up, "Trust him," I said.
These bagels brought me back to those days in Queens when the bagels were so fresh that the idea of toasting them was,sacrilege. While I was waiting a good 20 minutes in line, all but three types of bagels were sold out and two pans came out to replace two types. I'm sure this seems like a bad thing to some people but when I see bagels being brought out and being sold out constantly, I know that whatever I end up with is going to be insanely good. Go here! And try read-up on and respect, "Bageletiquette."
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