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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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Subject: Bagel trivia (Re: Need Bagel Recipe)
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 17:17:03 EDT
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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.")
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