Bagel-fuls taste like fried dough (with cream cheese)

Posted Apr 15th 2008 6:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Breakfast, Snacks, Pop Food, New Products

Bagel-fuls I've never been a fan of frozen bagels. I don't care if you can toast them and they get all crunchy, I still like the bagels you get in the bread aisle, not frozen. They just taste better to me for some reason, and you can even eat them without toasting them.

So when I saw Kraft's new Bagel-fuls in the frozen food section, I was already thinking they might not be that great. But I bought them to see how they'd taste (for science and you readers, of course). First of all, if you store these bagel tubes filled with cream cheese in the freezer, you have to microwave them. You can't put them in the toaster unless they've already been thawed a bit, so if they're frozen you have to nuke them for 20 seconds.

How do they taste? They sorta taste like fried dough, not exactly bagel-ish. They're not bad, they'll do in a pinch I guess, but give me a regular bagel and I'll toast it and spread the cream cheese on myself.

Tags: bagel-fuls, bagelfuls, bagels, cream cheese, kraft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-16-2008 @ 2:53AM

Keath said...

That kinda stuff just isn't food.

4-16-2008 @ 8:30AM

sykoex said...

lol You never find this type of stuff in NYC, no Walmarts here. :p

4-16-2008 @ 4:21PM

Michael Schmitt said...

I had the cinnamon sugar (I think) "flavored" ones, and I have to agree with Bob. The flavor really wasn't anything that resembled a bagel, but it was a dough-y flavored bread-like semi-chewy substance that had some cream cheese in the middle.

It meets the needs of a "grab-n-go" snack, but I don't think it'll last that long on the market because of lack of flavor, the public's idea of what a bagel should taste/look like, and the price.

But I DO admire the food scientists that came up with the machinery that can make such a concoction.

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