[Labyrinthos]

You see the other difference is that we know bread was meant to be fried, not boiled into chewy day old bagels

I never eat donuts and rarely eat bagels or bread. But I will admit that I once made the mistake of eating a bagel in one of your southern second-class cities and almost gagged to death. That was not a bagel, at least not one that I recognized.

[bk1000]

You would have to be a fool to eat a bagel in the south.
One would be equally foolish to order grits in NYC