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| - Is it me or has Fairmount Bagels gone downhill?? I stopped by on a recent trip to Montreal to pick up several dozens of a few different kinds and man, looks like they're cutting corners and quality is at its low. I thought it might be just one of those days but in years past, they've ALWAYS been consistent!
I got mostly sesame seed bagels and a few blueberry, garlic, and cinnamon raisin and they weren't very good. The garlic bagels were especially NOT GOOD! I ended up having to throw them away, thank goodness there were only a few but trust me when I say they were nasty, AND they stunk up my car and house--so not worth the trouble! It would appear that the sesame seed bagels are much bigger than before and definitely do not have that usual Montreal bagel flavour and texture. I mulled this over a while and realized they're using some kind of filler or extra yeast? that makes the bagel more bread-y than bagel. If I want bread with a hole in it that's trying to pass itself off as a bagel, I'll go to Great Canadian Bagel, thank you very much! The blueberry bagels used to be much more purple with more blueberries when sliced open but not this time. They were more of a light blue with a couple of morsels of blueberry; the colour made them look almost synthetic. I didn't get the cinnamon raisins for myself so I didn't get to try them but even if I had the choice, I wouldn't have as I never really liked raisins in my bread. Another thing I noticed is that after letting the bagels cool in the paper bag, as I was putting them in the plastic ones they give you, they were rock hard. They also didn't have the same smell. I ripped one open to see if I was just being paranoid and not only did it not look the same, it didn't feel or taste the same. What's happening???
I always preferred Fairmount over St-Viateur for its variety and overall taste (they're quite similar in taste though, let's not kid ourselves) and for all I know, maybe St-V has upped their game and started offering more flavours but if this lack of quality is a regular feature at Fairmount, I'm going to have to find some other source. I think I've even had better MTL bagels in Toronto than the ones I got from FB recently! I'll have to do my rounds at the kosher bakeries in Toronto that offer MTL bagels when I run out of this batch and if there's a decent place among them, I won't bother doing these bagel runs when I head up to Montreal in the future. And it's not like FB's prices that great!
I'm giving Fairmount 3* as I am hoping I just happened to visit on an off-day. TO give it 2* when I go so seldom hardly seems fair. I'll try them again and see then what the deal is.
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