Bagel Buyer Beware

So there was some confusion regarding a previous post. Apparently some people thought I was complaining about the actual hole that occurs naturally in the center of most bagels. Seriously? People, do I seem that unreasonable? Sure, the great bagel debate of last week might have painted such a picture and had certainly festered in the minds of both Erwins, which almost resulted in there not being a Friday Morning Breakfast this week. Rick was terrified of his wife jumping over the counter and attacking the nice (lazy with inattention to detail or any quality control standards) bagel lady. But I convinced him that after last night's dinner where I was informed that my spinach tortilla veggie wrap was normally serviced on a stale, hard white tortilla, so there was no sense sending it back, that I was all out of rage for the food service industry. Both he and the bagel lady were safe.

This morning I was lucky enough to get photographic evidence of the aforementioned burned out hole on not one, but BOTH our bagels at our Friday Morning Breakfast.

This is my bagel. Six cheese with plain light cream cheese. No, I haven't already taken a bite out of it. The hole you see was there upon delivery. What is not so obvious in this picture is that the burned out section continues from the south, up in a northeastern counter-clockwise direction on the eastern half of the bagel. Covered up by cream cheese. Naturally.

Though it may look like Rick has nacho cheese (which would be awesome) on his bagel, this is actually the jalepeno salsa cream cheese in some strange lighting. Rick actually got the shiz end of the stick this week and this better shows the burned out conditions that we are dealing with. Again, this is how the bagel looked at handoff from the bagel lady/my nemesis.

Rick, always being the happy customer and reluctant to admit when he's wrong (he was adamant in his stance that I was being irrational earlier), crunched and flaked his way through his burned, scratchy bagel. We both vowed to try a different type of bagel next week, and if the same thing happens again, I am coming over the counter. Watch out bagel lady; consider this a warning shot.