Thread: Why, oh why?
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Old 12-15-2010, 10:27 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by GunMaster357 View Post
I don't know about other people's thoughts.

Your bagel is probably sliced immediately after cooking. It is hot, thus enabling the chemical reaction to go on and permiting the two halves of bagel to reunite.
Nice theory, but you are not familiar with the bagels in question. They are not cut all the way through. They are cut from both sides with a section in the middle that is left uncut to hold the two halves together, and you have to tear that little strip to get the two sides apart.

I think it's because people think of a bagel as a unit and they don't want to purchase a bag of bagel halves. There were probably market studies done years ago when the practice started and this was the preferred option.
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