AlwaysHungryNY: Everything On Your Everything Bagel

The Gluttoness — May 19, 2009

It’s the quintessential problem with Everything Bagels: after bringing them home from the store, retrieving one from the bottom of the paper bag, slicing, toasting and spreading your schmear on it, you might as well have started out with a Plain Bagel because all the seeds and seasonings have fallen off. If you’ve gone with cream cheese or butter it’s easy to turn that bad boy upside down and gently press it against the plate to retrieve the everything seasoning. But, if your bagel is topped with something not as prone to sticking when flipped, say whitefish salad, you’re going to miss out on the full experience of the classic, crispy combination of onion, poppy seed, sesame seed, garlic and salt.

The unfortunate circumstance described above was before the creation of Bagel-It. Billed as “The only thing that tops everything,” Bagel-It is the seasoning blend of the traditional New York bagel in an easy to use spice shaker. A few shakes over that whitefish salad topped bagel can put the “Everything” right back on to your bagel. Not only is it the convenient solution to the problem of a once-Everything, now Barely Something Bagel, but it can transform Plain Bagels and every other bagel flavor, from Pumpernickle to Whole Grain, into the Everything versions you’ve always wanted.