Panera Bread 'Eat Adventurously' (video) |
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Jimbo
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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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Thor
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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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purple rose
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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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Jimbo
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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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PaWolf
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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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CaptainErnie
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That's what I was thinking! |
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Thor
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Yeah, but they probably serve Top Ramen, not any of that more lowly ramen. |
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Ad nauseous
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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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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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Dreamstalker
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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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MrTim
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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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purple rose
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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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