This new product is the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread.
Thomas' has just introduced square bagels! It's part of their Squares line. This is great news for someone like me, who is a big fan of using bagels for sandwiches. The bagels are square, a little larger, and a little flatter than regular bagels - sort of like sandwich bread, only a bagel. I don't like to toast my bagels when I use them for a sandwich. I like to make the sandwich (usually turkey with swiss cheese, sometimes ham), and then put it in microwave for 30-40 seconds or so. It makes the bagel soft and warm (not the hard, burnt around the edges taste), perfect for a sandwhich.
2-14-2006 @4:41PM Teresa said... Ok, these look interesting. Thanks for the review! I like the idea of them being a little thinner than the round bagels, as sometimes those are too thick for me.
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2-14-2006 @4:44PM Nikole said... Have you heard David Cross' comedy bit about squagels? It's hilarious.
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2-14-2006 @7:45PM Onie said... Eh, this is nothing new, really.
My local Brugger's Bagel Bakery has had square bagels for years.
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2-15-2006 @9:05AM Brian Preston-Campbell said... Cozi, the sandwich chain in NYC has also had square bagels for at least two years, although I don't really remember when I first saw them so it could be longer. I'm guessing that they probably like to bake their bagels on a sheet pan and what fits better on a rectangular sheet pan than a square thing?
Brian
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2-15-2006 @12:47PM Allison said... How are these not just bread with a hole in the middle ?
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4-03-2006 @10:21AM Jon said... SQUAGELS! SQUARE BAGELS! DONT BE OPPRESSED BY THE TYRANY OF ROUND! YOUR GENERATION DROPS THEIR BAGEL DROPS ROLLS AWAY BOO HOO! MY GENERATION DROPS THEIR BAGELS AND IT DROPS CLUNK! RIGHT THERE!
SQUARE BAGELS!
yeah david cross is freakin hilarious
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4-13-2006 @9:41PM Joe Jap said... If Bob Sassone likes square bagels then he didn't go to Lincoln High School.
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4-13-2006 @11:10PM kitchenmage said... It's not even a bagel, it's "Bagelbread" with "the flavor of a bagel and the soft texture of bread"
Does someone want to tell them that bagels are about texture? If you leave out the boiling and low hydration level, it's just bread. Maybe if you spread it with some of that "American cheese food" it makes it somehow completely not what it claims to be.
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8-17-2006 @1:04AM Zach said... it's AMAZING!!!!!! a square bagel...just to fit in the toaster :-)..it's a spectacular idea...basically theonly thing I could come up with to describe how I feel about these things...is the look on this kids face (I hope you guys can see this kid...sorry if you can't)
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8-27-2006 @1:23PM Janet E. said... I don't want a cross between a bagel and bread! I want a good bagel!
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8-27-2006 @2:40PM MJ said... Thomas makes good bagels! Hope they taste like the round ones. I love a good bagel any way I can get em!Though I will probably stick to the round ones, creature of habit. Nothing like a NY style chewy bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon and red onion or tomato if its ripe.....LOL.............
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9-27-2006 @2:37PM lois said... zzz
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10-04-2007 @8:37PM Angry Dude said... nooo! this is totally stolen! the squagle!!! what an outrage
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1-10-2008 @8:51PM Bob Monti said... We just discovered square bagels here in the Sacramento Valley a few months ago, We bought them whenever we could find them! Really love them. Can,t find them any more .Is Thomas making them anny more?
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