The correct way to eat a bagel is open-faced.
, about the width of three fingers), and by the time you sandwich a fluffy bagel with a smorgasbord of fixings, you have crossed the point of no return.
An open-face sandwich, on the other hand, is all reward: You optimize the bagel-to-toppings ratio and achieve inner peace. You get more cream cheese, more whitefish salad, more raw onion, more everything because you have twice the surface area to work with. If someone offered you an apartment with twice the square footage at the same price who are you to say no?
I understand why many bagel shops don’t agree. To assemble a closed sandwich, you need no more than a square of foil to bundle it up. An open-face sandwich on the other hand requires a box or container, which can be cumbersome and expensive. And if you try to throw that on an e-bike and deliver intact? Forget about it.Photograph By Brittany Conerly For Bon Appétit
When a bagel is open-face, you have no choice but to sit down and savor it. This isn't something you can wrap up and eat while you’re driving or, honestly, even texting . Opening up a sandwich is a simple act, but I’d argue it makes us appreciate bagels even more. No small thing. Even if you’re not near a shop with its own open-face bagel sandwiches, you can and should hold yourself to a higher standard. If you get a bagel sandwich that is closed, the onus is on you: Open it up. Evenly divide the lox, tomato, capers, whatever you’ve got, between the two bagel halves. There’s no getting around it—whoever you’re eating with, even if they love you, will judge you. The trick is not to care. If you love them back, offer to open up their sandwich too.
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