I was brought up in the East-end of London and from recollection there was a few bagel places that made bagels 24 hours a day within a mile of each other. Over time .... they dwindled and there's now just the place left in Brick Lane.

What has happened to real bagels and ...... onion platzels?

I think of those days a lot. I could demand the slightly charred bagels .... straight out of the oven ... at 3am in the morning after a night out.

But now .... there's a complete generation or two that thinks the stuff that's produced now are real bagels. And how can anything from a plastic bag bought in a supermarket be called a "bagel"? But they're not. And if they have never tasted them ... then what hope someone is going to open a real bagel bakery?