The building I worked in before I retired had free bagels (paid for by the coffee fund) every Friday. One day one of my co-workers cutting a bagel also cut his hand so seriously he had to go to medical. Next week he was greeted with a “This workplace has gone [6] days without a bagel-related injury” sign.
Casualty Friday indeed.
Yup
@Mark Jackson
After two such injuries at our office (including doctor visits and stitches), all sharp knives were removed permanently. We still have bagel Fridays, but you have to cut them with plastic knives.
I sometimes bring one or two dozen bagels (with a variety of cream cheese) to my vet clinic when one of the dogs is there for surgery – I have the counter person at the bagel shop cut them.
There are ‘bagel guides’ for cutting them in half.
I’m not sure whether it’s still true, but at one time the biggest single reason for Emergency Room visits on Sundays n New York City was bagel-cutting accidents.
Oh, just to be different, not “Yup” but rather “Nope.” This is actually a clever joke playing on the basic knowledge we all should have that “casuality” translates as “hire the handicapped for one day just to make them feel good and then you can fire them” in the language of the Paperworkishofficedrone people.
But of course you all knew that and were just being cute by pretending not to get it, right>
Yup.
We New Yorkers have specialized bagel cutters that don’t expose your hand to sharp knives.
Also, yup.
Well, why the heck would the put that hole the middle of the bagel if weren’t supposed to put our thumbs through it to keep it steady as we cut them?
Following up all the “yups” with a Boomhauer “mmm-hmm”.
I have a bagel three times a week (tomorrow is a scheduled Bagel Day). I cut them on the cutting board, but you need to be careful otherwise you end up with wildly varying halves.
Pfft. Carlfink, real New Yorkers do it by hand and take our chances.
When I was a child in the early seventies my goyish neighbors asked if I wanted a bagel half. I said yes and was presented with a C-shaped semi-circle…. with butter.
… But I must admit the likelihood of accidents when a bagel is sliced vertically goes *way* down..
I eat bagels like that quite often, similar to a bread roll; cut in half, schmear on some cream cheese, take a bite; schmear on more cream cheese, take a bite; repeat as needed.
The Toroidal Studies Society at their meetings put out a snack table with bagels, donuts, and LifeSavers.
There was a brief kerfuffle when news organizations started discussing how the people in St. Louis were eating “bread-sliced bagels”. What that means is that the bagel is laid on a cutting board and sliced crosswise into several pieces.
Now, the real story was that St. Louis Bread Co. (aka Panera) was doing that for sample purposes, and a few people requested their bagels cut that way. It’s not a widespread practice.
If you slice a bagel along the radius and slice thin enough you can get Communion wafers.
. . . in flavors!
@ MiB & Andréa – It used to be much easier, safer, and tastier (not to mention more traditional*) to use Necco Wafers, but they aren’t available right now.
P.S. (*) – They were supposedly used for “practice” in preparation for First Communion ceremonies in some parishes.
We are/were ardent fans of NECCO Wafers – they were 89 cents at our Dollar Tree store. I didn’t get there fast enough when it was announced they were being discontinued, so I wasn’t able to stock up on ’em. One of the little tragedies of life.
I thought everything at Dollar Tree was a dollar.
. . . or less.
Interesting. I thought that was the place where, if you asked how much something was, someone would get on the PA and ask for a price check on X. Then all the employees would yell, “It’s a DOLLAR!”
Playing Communion was the only thing my sister and I used Necco wafers for.
Well, you know that advertising isn’t ALWAYS truthful. In fact, I’ve seen items selling Two For A Dollar. When one opened in Kenosha many years ago, I walked into a 20% off sale, so everything was 80 cents.
The last time I was in one of those places, most of the prices seemed to range from $2 to $5; the only thing that lent credence to the name was that all the prices were in even multiples of one dollar.
P.S. As a kid, we used to go to a “five & dime” store, but even then, there weren’t many things that the store actually sold for 5¢ or 10¢.
No no no . . . I’ll bet you were in a Dollar GENERAL store or a FAMILY Dollar store, not a Dollar TREE store. BIG DIFF!
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And it’s a decent joke.
The building I worked in before I retired had free bagels (paid for by the coffee fund) every Friday. One day one of my co-workers cutting a bagel also cut his hand so seriously he had to go to medical. Next week he was greeted with a “This workplace has gone [6] days without a bagel-related injury” sign.
Casualty Friday indeed.
Yup
@Mark Jackson
After two such injuries at our office (including doctor visits and stitches), all sharp knives were removed permanently. We still have bagel Fridays, but you have to cut them with plastic knives.
I sometimes bring one or two dozen bagels (with a variety of cream cheese) to my vet clinic when one of the dogs is there for surgery – I have the counter person at the bagel shop cut them.
There are ‘bagel guides’ for cutting them in half.
I’m not sure whether it’s still true, but at one time the biggest single reason for Emergency Room visits on Sundays n New York City was bagel-cutting accidents.
Oh, just to be different, not “Yup” but rather “Nope.” This is actually a clever joke playing on the basic knowledge we all should have that “casuality” translates as “hire the handicapped for one day just to make them feel good and then you can fire them” in the language of the Paperworkishofficedrone people.
But of course you all knew that and were just being cute by pretending not to get it, right>
Yup.
We New Yorkers have specialized bagel cutters that don’t expose your hand to sharp knives.
Also, yup.
Well, why the heck would the put that hole the middle of the bagel if weren’t supposed to put our thumbs through it to keep it steady as we cut them?
Following up all the “yups” with a Boomhauer “mmm-hmm”.
I have a bagel three times a week (tomorrow is a scheduled Bagel Day). I cut them on the cutting board, but you need to be careful otherwise you end up with wildly varying halves.
Pfft. Carlfink, real New Yorkers do it by hand and take our chances.
When I was a child in the early seventies my goyish neighbors asked if I wanted a bagel half. I said yes and was presented with a C-shaped semi-circle…. with butter.
… But I must admit the likelihood of accidents when a bagel is sliced vertically goes *way* down..
I eat bagels like that quite often, similar to a bread roll; cut in half, schmear on some cream cheese, take a bite; schmear on more cream cheese, take a bite; repeat as needed.
The Toroidal Studies Society at their meetings put out a snack table with bagels, donuts, and LifeSavers.
There was a brief kerfuffle when news organizations started discussing how the people in St. Louis were eating “bread-sliced bagels”. What that means is that the bagel is laid on a cutting board and sliced crosswise into several pieces.
Now, the real story was that St. Louis Bread Co. (aka Panera) was doing that for sample purposes, and a few people requested their bagels cut that way. It’s not a widespread practice.
If you slice a bagel along the radius and slice thin enough you can get Communion wafers.
. . . in flavors!
@ MiB & Andréa – It used to be much easier, safer, and tastier (not to mention more traditional*) to use Necco Wafers, but they aren’t available right now.
P.S. (*) – They were supposedly used for “practice” in preparation for First Communion ceremonies in some parishes.
We are/were ardent fans of NECCO Wafers – they were 89 cents at our Dollar Tree store. I didn’t get there fast enough when it was announced they were being discontinued, so I wasn’t able to stock up on ’em. One of the little tragedies of life.
I thought everything at Dollar Tree was a dollar.
. . . or less.
Interesting. I thought that was the place where, if you asked how much something was, someone would get on the PA and ask for a price check on X. Then all the employees would yell, “It’s a DOLLAR!”
Playing Communion was the only thing my sister and I used Necco wafers for.
Well, you know that advertising isn’t ALWAYS truthful. In fact, I’ve seen items selling Two For A Dollar. When one opened in Kenosha many years ago, I walked into a 20% off sale, so everything was 80 cents.
The last time I was in one of those places, most of the prices seemed to range from $2 to $5; the only thing that lent credence to the name was that all the prices were in even multiples of one dollar.
P.S. As a kid, we used to go to a “five & dime” store, but even then, there weren’t many things that the store actually sold for 5¢ or 10¢.
No no no . . . I’ll bet you were in a Dollar GENERAL store or a FAMILY Dollar store, not a Dollar TREE store. BIG DIFF!