[TXnMA]

Perhaps this explains why the bagels we by here in Texas are never sliced completely through — and have to be pulled/cut apart...

[Artemis Webb]

"Perhaps this explains why the bagels we by here in Texas are never sliced completely through — and have to be pulled/cut apart..."

That seems to be pretty much the case everywhere. It's a mystery to me too but as I love my bagels I just accept it as one would a wife who leaves the cap off the toothpaste.