I got in my car and went to the store and got a bagel with butter on it. I thought about maybe getting a chicken cutlet on it too, instead of butter, but then thought the best way to make that good would be to have mozzarella cheese and maybe marinara sauce on it. That would be like a chicken cutlet parmigiana thing, just without a breaded chicken cutlet. I opted not to do that, because I’d already eaten a lot.

I got in the car and started eating the bagel -- a whole wheat everything bagel -- and it tasted really good. Chewy and soft. I don’t really get the hooplah around bagels in New York City. It feels like people are unaware that you can get a…