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Bleeding Bagel

by Derek on September 4th, 2009
Bleeding Bagel

There’re three guys behind the counter at the new deli that I go to. Two of them who look like the more senior workers have already figured out what I want such that all I have to say now is “yes.” At some point I’ll switch the flavor on them but for now I’ll be the raisin with cream cheese guy.

The THIRD guy however is the same guy I did this comic about who seems committed to getting me to eating a bagel with cream cheese and jelly. Well, yesterday he got his wish. I opened up the foil on my bagel to see what looked like a bagel massacre with jelly all over the bagel, foil etc. It was very sticky to eat so I took a piece of foil off to hold the bagel with. It wasn’t bad, but still I just like plain cream cheese. Sometimes if I have something that’s too sweet in the morning I’ll get a stomachache, but I was fine after I finished.

Still though, either this guy just loves cream cheese with jelly or lots of other people order it because I don’t know how you fill in the blank of adding “jelly” to such a basic reques


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Cream Cheese And Jelly

by Derek on July 16th, 2009
Cream Cheese And Jelly

Actually since my office moved I’ve been trying new delis, I guess I’ll work that storyline into the comic so I can share the moving stories, but right now I didn’t feel like starting it yet so I’m getting ahead with some of my new deli stories. Seriously, “Bagel with cream cheese” is pretty different from “Bagel with cream cheese and jelly.” Even if I trailed off while saying “Bagel with cream cheese” you could get “and jelly” out of that.


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Bagel Cream Cheese Calories

by Derek on October 15th, 2008
Bagel Cream Cheese Calories

I check the Yahoo! News capsule every now and then for some headlines, but also things like this catch my eye. According to this article a bagel with cream cheese has 700 calories in it. After some googling of other sites it looks like it’s anywhere from 400 to 800 calories. This person on WikiAnswers specifically asked about a New York bagel. Whatever, I exercise regularly and have been having a bagel as breakfast for years now so I don’t worry, but if I’m feeling my metabolism slowly I certainly won’t forget this.


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Bagel Man Fakeout

by Derek on October 9th, 2008
Bagel Man Fakeout

I still wonder what would happen if I threw them a weird order or something totally different. I’m not nearly this friendly with my deli guy, I don’t even know his name.


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Morning Manga

by Derek on August 15th, 2008
Morning Manga

The manga I’m talking about is Iron Wok Jan which is a manga all about Chinese cooking. I like all sorts of food manga and anime, and this is the only one right now that’s in English which has enough cooking to keep me interested. The only thing I don’t like about the manga is the almost completely unsympathetic annoying protagonist and the GIGANTIC BOOBS the two female lead characters have. It’s seriously grotesquely unsexy, and at times I just use my thumb to cover them up.

I picked up for volumes at Otakon for $5 each so I’m tearing through those volumes right now. I was reading Volume 12 on the way to work and the latter part of it was a battle using liver. Specifically, the antagonist was an annoying rich boy using super luxurious foie gras from France. I’ve had foie gras one time in my life so I remember basically what it tastes like.

So there I am sitting on the subway imagining this deliciously melty food in my mouth and then I go to the deli to get a toasted raisin bagel with cream cheese. I ate my usual amount but damn if it wasn’t unsatisfying. It’s just like with Iron Chef, the ideal time to watch/read is when you’re eating. Preferably really good food, but I don’t read manga during dinner so that doesn’t happen anymore (my family used to watch Iron Chef religiously during dinnertime).


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The Usual Just Harder

by Derek on April 28th, 2008
The Usual Just Harder

I wouldn’t precisely say burnt, but it was definitely starting to border. Really the toasting is just so that there’s some crunch since a regular deli bagel won’t have the crunch of a fresh bagel from a real bagel place. Still though, things I would say are generally going well with bagel man 2. It seems original bagel man is doing pizza now? Go figure.


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Proper Bagel Toasting

by Derek on April 24th, 2008
Proper Bagel Toasting

Yes bagel man 2 is now toasting my bagel twice, thus bringing it to new levels of crispiness. Actually it’s more like once and a half and so far it’s been pretty satisfyingly crispy. Now I don’t even have to say anything when I go into the deli, he goes straight for the raisin bagel when he sees me. Still though I like original bagel man better because he didn’t look perpetually pissed off all the time like bagel man 2.


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Bagel Man 2.0

by Derek on April 18th, 2008
Bagel Man 2.0

The saga continues, he knows I get a raisin bagel but he still doesn’t get it when I ask him to toast the outside. Instead he still cuts it in half, and puts the inside portion face down (where the toaster heaters get to it) and then asks me if the bagel looks toasted enough before putting cream cheese on it. Oh and the day before yesterday he cut it better but it could’ve been a fluke.


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Letter to Bagel Man

by Derek on April 10th, 2008
Letter to Bagel Man

Seriously, it’s not even a return to a fresh bagel guy who needs to be trained. I’d say the shallow cut through the bagel, thinking I said “jelly” two times and the toasting on the inside are a huge step back. Original bagel guy went away to the front of the deli for a while and that’s when bagel man 2 (who used to work the grill) stepped in. Then they got a new guy on the grill and Original bagel man came back for a little bit. But now he’s working at the front of the deli again! I’m wondering now if I’m seeing the deli worker hierarchy. Do they start at the grill, become bagel person and then go to salads or something? I would’ve thought grill would be a later job because it’s more complicated. Hmmmmm.


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You Know You’re Late When

by Derek on March 25th, 2008
You Know You’re Late When

One time I showed up at my deli five to ten minutes late and they had uncovered the steam tray to put in some rice dishes. Then yesterday because of the subway I was TWENTY minutes late. I figured by then they would’ve been fully prepared for lunch and I wouldn’t get my bagel or something. Turns out they hadn’t loaded in any of them at all so it didn’t matter.


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