Guys, this chain bakery/cafe (ROUND) has bagels that were actually good and normal but they started putting... Whatever this is in them?? Ruining the flavor?? What even are these, they aren't raisins or any seed acceptable for a bagel. Idk what this is but it tastes like herby or salty or ugh bleugh
Does Finland have it out for you or something?
Long one is second image looks like sunflower seeds, pretty common in bread in my part of the world.
aniseed?? that's the first thing i can think of that a country like finland might add to a bagel and ruin the flavor (i think it would rule but i love licorice and I'm dutch so of course i would think that). here's a pic of bread with aniseed in it, looks similar to me!
oh man this one is super likely, the Finns are freaks for liquorice
Exactly. I was ready to guess salmiakki before I saw the picture. Are you sure it isn't that? 😅
The one on the right kind of looks like pine nuts, but I'm not sure if those taste really salty.
Next time I'm just gonna ask the cashier, but I happen to keep popping by when there's a line and that would mildly piss them off almost certainly if I came up to ask a question and leave with no purchase lol
People need to know these things because of their allergies anyway, there is nothing wrong with asking
It's just odd that they're not labeled! Every bagel store in NY and Jersey have bagels labeled, no matter how obvious the flavor is visually haha
Well, that's 100% true, they should absolutely be labeled
can't you ask them before getting in the line? it's just info before you actually know what you're getting into
Asking a question to the sole cashier minding the queue without getting in the queue is effectively cutting the line....
I get why you'd think that there, it's just that in Brazil that'd be ok hahah I mean, it's just a quick info request? prob. no one will mind
ah you are unfamiliar with Europeans' customer service! I once asked a waitress how big the bread appetizer was, was it for 2 or 4 people (our party was 4) and she did not hide her "what kind of dumb fucking question is that" face lol Tho I bet if I spoke Finnish it would be seen as less annoying
ohhhh I certainly wasn't!! I figured it'd require a bit more red tape, but not that much damn, are you going to try another day hoping for no lines or is there an alternative close by?
Nah you get wayyy more rbf stares asking anything in Finnish. You are expected to know not to ask and just look it up yourself. Even - especially - if it's something you can't look up. I would leave feedback though, if enough people mention it's worse than it used to be they sometimes change it.
yeah, I'd say go for it because in BR we're all about samba and sacanagem but I myself would probably just try the nearest alternative lol
Update: I asked and these were sundried tomato bagels (ew) and "mixed seeds" bagels (🤨) I asked what seeds, and it's like sesame and sunflower and some other weird stuff but okay. Not terrible but not what I want :( just plain or sesame or poppy or cinnamon c'monnn
as a tomato loving weirdo, i think i would fuck with this bagel ngl
I asked "Why don't you label the bagels?" "Cuz they rotate out so often" "Ah makes sense" Me later, when not being told something by an authority (on bagels) figure: NO IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE, THEY RELABEL THEIR MANY DONUTS DAILY??? THIS IS ONLY LIKE 3% MORE WORK TO INCREASE SALES AND EFFICIENCY 😠
Real answer: because then people wouldn't buy them.
You'd think they'd label them just so they dont constantly have people asking what kind of bagels they are
I don't know if any of the ingredients would apply, but that's a major risk for people with allergies.
that too tbh but i wasn't about to Karen about it since I do not have those allergies :/
Please do, not having allergy information is actually illegal and a major hazard to people like me.
We need a point and click adventure game where you solve European bagel mysteries. Bread crimes.
Looks like flaxseed, but it can’t be if they’re ruining the flavor.
that might vary for some people. flax has a strange bitter/astringent/fishy flavour to me, and i can pick up on it in seeded breads. if vb is sensitive to flavours and finds it unpleasant like i do, i could see it wrecking a bagel.
So like, ONE of those is a flaxseed (not too offensive) but the longer one to the right isn't...
Caraway perhaps?
Hmmm Google image search certainly looks like these (guess I don't like caraway??)
Caraway might also trick you on other occasions! If you see the spice "Kumina" in the store (or "Kummin" in Swedish), you might think "ah, cumin, just what I needed". But you will be deceived, because Kumina is actually caraway, while "Roomankumina" (or "Spiskummin") is cumin.