• @lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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    281 year ago

    I don’t understand bagels actually. Why put a whole in a sandwich?? It’s just worse ergonomics than a regular sandwich! I’m sure it’s some capitalist shenanigans to trick people into thinking it’s cool and containing more food than it actually does

    • Rom [he/him]
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      421 year ago

      idk but everything bagels with cream cheese are fucking delicious

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      361 year ago

      Ring shaped bread predates capitalism by at least 300 years. It’s just more efficient to make in certain cases.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      361 year ago

      Bagels are boiled before they’re baked, which gives them a chewier texture that toasts really well. It’s an entirely different thing to just regular toast or bread.

      Source: AYYY I’M WALKIN’ HYEER

    • RNAi [he/him]OP
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      1 year ago

      A hole going thru the part that would be the furtherst away from the heat makes the whole thing to cook faster, allowing more production with the same capital and labor and shit, so, yeah

      But it would made sense from a comunist planning perspective too, cuz it’s more energy and labor efficient

      • davel [he/him]
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        141 year ago

        More quickly and more evenly: you don’t end up with an overcooked outside and undercooked center.

        • @Vncredleader@hexbear.net
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          61 year ago

          Making it way more efficient. Its funny how when you look into things you find human ingenuity and not just “eh capitalists probably did it for no reason”.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      351 year ago

      Well you know how when you take a bite, cream cheese comes out of the sides and ruins the sandwich? The hole is there so it can escape in even more directions. i-think-that

        • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
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          71 year ago

          The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

          نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

          volcel-police

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      231 year ago

      it’s so bagel salesmen can string them around their necks before walking to the marketplace

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      171 year ago

      It’s a thicc bit of dough and the hole is for surface area when baking. Otherwise you’d either get a raw center or burned edges. Also they’re not just bread rings, bagels are a different process which involves boiling the dough prior to baking and other stuff depending on the region (Montreal bagels>NY bagels btw). They’re not really intended as sandwich material and that’s a more recent use for bagels, that being said I fuckinf love a bagel sandwich.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It makes it cook more evenly and also I think medieval bakes used to transport bread on wooden racks so bread with holes were more of a thing back then cuz you could easily stick them on the pegs. Pretzels and donuts also have holes in them. But I’m not a historian so maybe I’m talking out my ass shrug-outta-hecks

      Edit: Some guy on reddit-logo has a more comprehensive explanation.

    • I had heard they were made to put them on poles so the kids who all ran around the streets selling them could carry more. I figure a pole of bagels sticking up above the crowd would also kinda self-advertise. Might be bullshit though.

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      41 year ago

      It’s fun! You good make the exact same thing as batons but why have a bread baton when you can have a CIRCLE?