There are just so many things to get in an uproar about these days aren’t there? Climate change, gun control, the upcoming midterm elections, and oh, yeah, emojis that don’t even officially exist yet.
Today, the media decided to fixate on Cynthia Nixon’s choice in bagel sandwich fillings, because what better way to marshal your reporting resources than embedding horrified Twitter reactions in a CMS and convincing the public it’s an actual controversy?
Ice cream bagels?
The poppy-seed bagel scare is one of those urban legends that is apparently spot-on. Seinfeld episodes notwithstanding, it seems like everyone knows someone who knows someone who has tested positive for opiates that after eating a poppy-seed bagel or muffin, or it pops up in the news every once in a while. Like this…
Rivalries run deep on the East Coast, and one rift that’s less visible—but every bit as heated—is the bagel feud between New York City and Montreal. As someone who grew up between the two cities in Connecticut, I’ve felt my allegiances tugged from both directions. My mother, being that she is from Montreal, tipped the…
