Vintage Footage Shows Brooklyn Bagel Makers Trash-Talking Out-Of-State Bagels

New Yorkers have been trash-talking out-of-state bagels for decades, and in the below video, which the Brooklyn Public Library believes is from 1979, you'll see some sweet smackdowns, vintage style. As one wise man declares: "These people in the midwest, they wouldn't know a bagel from a doughnut! The only reason they ever saw a bagel is one fell off a truck. Four professors were dissecting it before they found out what it was all about."

The video, part of the 16mm film collection at the BPL's local history division, also shows bagel makers in Brooklyn creating their doughy goods by hand, and even claiming the secret is in Brooklyn's water.

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By Jen Carlson in Food on December 14, 2011 3:13 PM

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"Tim Osman"

I know that could place could be just about anywhere in Brooklyn but it seems alot like Terrace Bagels

"Tim Osman"

I would love to see the reaction from someone in this video if they saw what passes for a bagel from Dunkin Donuts

famdoc

Awesome video. Can't help but think that the DOH would give that joint a "C" rating today...no hair nets, bare hands, etc. The bagel crew brought to mind Dom DeMarco...there's a right way to make pizza, a right way to make bagels, let the DOH be damned.