How to eat an Everything Bagel

At this point in my life a typical breakfast consists of a trip to Au Bon Pain, where I blend the, "Morning Blend," and, "Hazelnut," coffee's together and then select a bagel.

I think this is easily the most important decision I make every morning. Now my ideal bagel choice is: onion. Unfortunately ABP does not carry this type of bagel, but they do carry I nice selection of other stuff. Some mornings I go for the Asiago cheese, it has a nice crunch melted cheese throughout. Other days it's the Honey Oat bagel, it's not as savory, but sometimes I need a little extra sweet flavor in the morning.

More often than not however, I go for the Everything bagel. Poppy seeds, sesame seeds, salt, and most importantly: Onions. That last ingredient is the primary reason I make this decision every morning, but it comes with one major inconvenience: its only HALF of an everything bagel, and HALF of a plain bagel!

I don't know who ABP thinks they are kidding, but only the top half of these awesome treats are covered with any kind of topping. This wouldn't be a huge deal except that when you cut the bagel in half to spread cream cheese or peanut butter or whatever you want, you end up with 2 completely different halves.

Maybe if your skilled with your knife you can get some of the outer most ingredients into the bottom half of your breakfast but, it really wont be the same. Fortunately I have devised a strategy to overcome this injustice.

I used to always eat the bland boring side first, so I could savor the good side last, but this is a huge mistake.

If you have ever had an everything bagel, and if you haven't stop reading and go do so, you know that they are messy. Ingredients fall off all over the place and there isn't much you can do to stop it.

Here is what you do. First lay down your napkin, and saw your breakfast in half, letting all the goods collect below on the napkin. Then spread whatever you want onto the, "good" half of your bagel and enjoy it but make sure your droppings land on the napkin.

Now on to that lame-butt second half, spread your cream cheese on as thick as you want, then dump all shtuff your napkin collected onto the cream cheese. Not only did none of your flavors go to waste but they will get stuck in the cheese and not go messying everything up.

Enjoy your bagels!