1979 Making bagels by hand in Brooklyn, NY

[baldguy]

"If ya haven't gotta Brooklyn handmade bagel, you ain't livin'! Yoidit?"

[In_The_Wind]

1. My first bagel was a Brooklyn Bagel!

[harmonicon]

2. I enjoyed that far too much. I was transfixed.

It's funny... I have a friend (30-something), who grew up in Virginia. His parents moved there in the 60's or 70's from New York, and he said his dad went around trying to buy bagels, and no one knew what he meant. He'd say, "you know, it's like bread, it's round, and you eat it for breakfast," and they'd say, "Oh! You mean a doughnut. Yes, we have those." It's like trying to explain biscuits to the English. They. Don't. Get it.

[KamaAina]

3. The English do so get biscuits!

[harmonicon]

5. NOT BISCUITS!!!

You know as much as well. SHAME on you.

Be my guest, eat Carr's with gravy, if you want.

[elleng]

6. HA!

[rug]

4. "I'm waiting for the pot to berl."

I lived in Brooklyn in 1979. I miss it.

[Libertas1776]

7. Scary...

that ol' Brooklynite at the end is exactly how I would see myself in old age, down to a tee. Like lookin' into the future


Shame, real McCoy characters like that are mostly but memories now in most of the now genericized city, Brooklyn included.

[Arugula Latte]

8. "Dere's sumthin in da wadder"