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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Mar 2015 at 8:47pm
Originally posted by Darthhillbilly Darthhillbilly wrote:

The asiago bagels are good, and they have/had a cinnamon one that was good if you were in the mood for sweet. The rent-a-car guys used to bring in bags of them every now and then, so I have no clue what they cost. I think I've set foot in a Panera once.

Do kinda miss those bagels though.


The first time I tried them was when I was visiting this high end, upscale mall that had just opened a few months earlier. I was hungry & wanted something to eat, but the food court prices were ridiculous. Then I saw the Panera Bread, so I went in & got two Asiago cheese bagels & a Coke for just under three bucks.

Nice little snack that didn't cost an arm & a leg.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Mar 2015 at 9:28pm

I wonder what East Coast Jews think of the bagels at Panera.  Many mock the bagels here on the West Coast for being little more than regular old rolls with a hole in the middle.  The bagels I grew up on were dense and chewy, not soft.




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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:


I wonder what East Coast Jews think of the bagels at Panera.  Many mock the bagels here on the West Coast for being little more than regular old rolls with a hole in the middle.  The bagels I grew up on were dense and chewy, not soft.


I grew up in NY (Lawn Guyland to be precise) so yeah, I know exactly what you mean.  When we moved to CA I had trouble finding a decent bagel.  I had high hopes for Noah's with their NY subway theme but nope, just a roll with a hole.  When we moved to Palo Alto I found a place called Izzy's and finally, the real deal!  They even have baked salmon salad, and of course they're always busy.
I've never had a Panera bagel.  That would be like having soba noodles at Panera.
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The reason that they're dense & chewy, is because just prior to baking them, they dunk them in boiling water for about a half a minute or so.

Same with the big, soft pretzels, which are really nothing more than bagels stretched out thinner & folded in a knot.

I've had bagels in NY before. They're certainly better than most of what you get at places like Einstein & so on.

I think Lender's bagels are actually pretty close to what I remember having there.


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I want to beat the announcer to a pulp for more reasons than one...the BIG one being *I* have *never* eaten in a Panera Bakery, but I have helped build one and this jerk has just killed all the anticipation built up inside of me.
About 10 miles from here is a Panera, built about 15 years ago, at an earlier time when I was watching over 'The Estate At The Swamp' (I was bored and wanted something to do for a few days, so, went to Labor Ready and got on the construction crew for a week). The BIG event was when they delivered the bread oven - none of us 'Slave Ready' crowd got to work on it...and it didn't do noodles.
 
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Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Yikes! I was trying to be reasonable, too!!!

Who would fork over 8 bucks for a bowl of ramen worth about 15ยข????

Knuckleheads, that's who!!!!


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Apr 2015 at 6:43pm

Yeah, but they probably serve Top Ramen, not any of that more lowly ramen.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Apr 2015 at 8:29pm
In my humble opinion that noodles and such doesn't sound all that filling. I've eaten at a Panera Bread ONCE I can't remember what I ate there probably not that memorable at all. Oh yeah it was a sandwich of some sort, I think. I believe it coated $8.00.
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I had one of those bowls once (half-price coupon for watching a few of those dumb videos on their site), it was ok.  If I want real pho there are about eight places within walking distance though.
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'Eat Adventurously!' sounds too much like 'Russian Roulette with food'.

"Try our new Panera Bread Sun-Baked Salmon Salad or the Ham Tartar & Egg Wrap!"
 
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Originally posted by MrTim MrTim wrote:

'Eat Adventurously!' sounds too much like 'Russian Roulette with food'. 

"Try our new Panera Bread Sun-Baked Salmon Salad or the Ham Tartar & Egg Wrap!"
 
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Makes me think of Anthony Bourdain eating whatever nasty animal parts the natives give him.  Yak scrotum is adventurous, chicken soup with soba noodles is not.  
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