Note: This is from the New York Times Metropolitan Diary, 2/26/2001. Please note that most new yorkers know, that an “everything” bagel refers to one that has all the flavorings on it (ie salt, poppy, sesame, onion, garlic)
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Scene: Small cafeteria at a New York hospital.
Participants: Young man in scrubs, presumably a doctor, looking rumpled and tired, and cafeteria server.
Observer: Philippa Jane Benson, who had found her way to the cafeteria after spending the night with her mother, who had undergone surgery.
Doctor: Got bagels?
Server (cheerily): Only everything.
Doctor: O.K. Give me sesame, toasted.
Server: Don’t have any sesame.
Doctor: O.K. Give me poppy.
Server: No poppy.
Doctor: What do you have again?
Server: Everything.
Doctor: Give me onion, then.
Server: No onion.
Doctor: So you’ve got everything but no sesame, poppy or onion.
Server: Right.
Doctor: Just toast me a bagel. (Steps away to pour himself some coffee.)
Ms. Benson (taking her turn at the counter and addressing server): He must be tired.
Server: Yeah. Or from out of town. You know, they don’t get everything everywhere like we got in New York.
I’m not a yorker but I knew what an everything bagel was lol.
You are making me homesick for a good NY bagel!
haha, nice.
Definitely one of many food groups missed when not living in the northeast.