Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Bagel trivia (Re: Need Bagel Recipe) Message-ID: <3139@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 17:17:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3139 Posted: Mon Aug 20 17:17:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 02:53:47 EDT References: <2070@ncrcae.UUCP> <1039@t4test.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 14 I was astonished on a trip to Europe last year to discover that bagels are unknown in Germany. Although I knew that they were introduced to this country by Jews and that the word "bagel" was properly Yiddish and not German, I still expected that Germans would at least be aware of what bagels were. No dice. The bagel seems to be one of many elements of the German Jewish subculture which have disappeared from Germany altogether. (Perhaps I would have had more luck in Poland or Czechoslovakia, where many of the "German" Jews actually lived.) By the way, the word "bagel" is ultimately German in its etymology. Look it up some time. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle