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Northern breakfast: egg sandwiches and bagels
By Carrie | May 27, 2008
Well, we ended up heading up North to Oak’s old neck of the woods for the holiday weekend for some family stuff, but of course, we cannot be stopped in the pursuit of tasty treats. Like the South, the North has its own specialty breakfast items that you can’t get anywhere else.
Actually, these breakfast items are pretty unique to the NY metro area… because I certainly never really ate them growing up. We were more into donuts, but that’s another entry!
First, we had a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on a kaiser roll. According to Oak, this is a typical blue collar breakfast. I don’t care what collar eats them, they are tasty! Even if they don’t have hand-crafted bacon on them. Maybe Oak needs to learn to make kaiser rolls so we can have them at home!
Secondly is the BAGEL. Apparently Oak is the one that introduced me to Real Bagels(TM). Any grocery store bagels, bagels from Brueggers, Dunkin Donuts, and the like… while sometimes acceptable, are not Real. Rockland Bakery is THE place to get the Real Deal. It’s a huge complex that has not only bagels, but breads, pastries, cookies, deli, etc. The best part of a visit is the conveyor belt of freshly baked bagels that is always running. You can grab a fresh bagel and eat it right there! Of course, we bought almost a dozen bagels.. I’m enjoying having them for breakfast for the next few mornings toasted with cream cheese. I still have to get used to lox. I’ll be sure keep you updated on my lox enjoyment level.
May 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
OMG!! Oak has not got you trying lox!!!!!???? What has happened to my picky daughter that would only eat chicken?????
May 29th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I miss bagels, they are good. I like lox, but in a hesitant way…
May 29th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I just don’t like salmon, no matter how it’s prepared. If they cut up tuna and put it on a bagel, I’m game!