A properly-sliced bagel would be the best thing since sliced bread.
In Germany, English muffins are pre-sliced 90% of the way.
That said: Fresh cut bread tastes better anyway.
I don’t want my English muffins sliced at all, personally, and I agree about freshly sliced bread…
…but…
In the US, pre-sliced bagels are the worst. They’re the fucking worst! In a package of 6 bagels, at least 4 will not be sliced in the middle, so you get one “half” with 75% of the bagel, and the other “half” just disintegrates. Of the ones that are sliced in the middle, they leave a line of uncut area for godknowswhy and trying to tear it apart usually fucks up one of the halves.
One shouldn’t have to pull out a sharp knife to open a pre-sliced bagel!
And don’t even get me started on toasters with a bagel function…
You don’t “open” a bagel like a pop can, that’s why they’re ripping.
You “twist” it like a bottle, and it should split evenly 99% of the time.
The middle being connected is so you don’t just have a bag of bagel halves.
I get that, but it’s executed poorly. If only 20-30% of the time they’re cut properly to do the twist move, it’s still a failure. I’d rather have a bag of disconnected bagel halves or have to cut them myself than the BS currently available in my local market.
I mean, I honestly can’t remember buying bagels at the store and ever having one that isn’t connected still.
Not that I eat a crazy amount of bagels tho.
Well, for Thomas’ English muffin all you have to do is little squeeze around the whole edges until it comes apart. No knife nor fork required.
Bay’s English muffins are superior to others and are perfectly presliced.
