Social media users are up in arms over a tweet about bagels. The tweet in question, which was shared by a user named Alek Krautmann on Monday, March 25, contains a picture of two boxes of bagels from Panera Bread resting on an office desk. While a snapshot like that would typically be standard Twitter fare, users on the social media platform are outraged over how the bread shown in the photo is sliced.
“Today I introduced my coworkers to the St. Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced,” Krautmann tweeted along with the pic. “It was a hit!” Apparently, this “secret” way of ordering bagels in the home of the Gateway Arch entails slicing the dense pastries like bread. In other words, in St. Louis, Missouri, it’s apparently customary to cut bagels into multiple, vertical slices instead of simply cutting the food in half, horizontally.
Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced. It was a hit! pic.twitter.com/XNGbljtpYz
— Alek Krautmann (@AlekKrautmann) March 26, 2019
Needless to say it didn’t take long before Twitter users began weighing in on what one dubbed, “an embarrassment to the whole sliced foods community.” The tweet has already garnered more than 22,000 likes and upwards of 8,700 comments. Not surprisingly, a vast majority of them express outrage over how these bagels have been presented.
“This feels like something that should get a person sent to Gitmo,” tweeted author Molly Jong-Fast. Added another user, who has extensive experience cutting bagels: “I work in a bakery that makes bread & bagels every morning … If someone asked me to ‘bread slice’ bagels I’d refuse service. I have standards and a healthy respect for bagels.”
As yet another user succinctly put it: “You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Even Chrissy Teigen, who has been known to be supportive of some off-kilter food choices (she puts cheese in her guacamole after all), simply couldn’t get behind this one. “Vote NO on prop: slicingbagels,” she tweeted on Wednesday, March 27.
To clarify her position, the cookbook author later added: “I mean you can, and should, slice them once, horizontally.”
Still, not everyone was offended this unique way of slicing food. As one diabetic Twitter user explained, cutting a bagel vertically is a good way for her to control the portion size and keep her blood sugar in check. Even Panera got in on the action, offering Krautmann “bagels on us, sliced however you’d like.”
Check out some additional Twitter reactions to these vertically sliced bagels below:
Were you immediately fired?
— Hi, it’s your friend Dan! (@TheDannyFresh) March 27, 2019
This isn’t a hit. This is “Hey let me find the worst and cheapest way to feed 25 people with 12 bagels!”
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) March 27, 2019
1. If you didn’t buy them in New York City or New Jersey, those are not bagels.
2. I’m reporting you to my rabbi.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 27, 2019
Who told you this was ok
— Kelly Ellis (@justkelly_ok) March 27, 2019
okay i live in St. louis and would like to clarify that we are not ALL sociopaths
— pony starwars (@tigersgoroooar) March 27, 2019
What in the fresh hell is this? I am from STL and have never seen this evil in my life @MBGlenn
— Late In Life ELO Fan (@buxwatcher) March 27, 2019
