"Everything" You Thought it Would Be (Except When it's Not)

I feels like there's a slight misunderstanding between the establishment and myself when it comes to bagel terminology.  Turns out there's a bit of a difference between what I ask for and what's provided.  I'm waiting for the one day when a bagelry will pick up on it and surprise me by giving me exactly what I asked for. 

For example:
If I ask for a Cinnamon Raisin bagel, I get a bagel with cinnamon & raisins.
A Garlic bagel = bagel with garlic.
Sesame bagel = bagel with sesame seeds.
Poppy seed bagel = bagel with poppy seeds.
Plain bagel = bagel with nadda.

Follow? Ok.

So what's getting my jaw all up in a cramp? I've hit the 5 main categories of bagel and no problem, but...

Now take the Everything bagel? It's got garlic, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, and.......welp, that's about it.  And, last time I checked, three toppings does not everything make (it's more like a Garpopame, pronounced Gar-pop'-ah-me, bagel. i think that could be pretty catchy).  At least try throwing some raisins in there.  That's what I want.  A raisin, garlic, sesame seed, poppy seed bagel.  Until that day though, I'll just keep eating this not-everything bagel they keep throwing at me.

But the generic "everything" bagels are alright too. They're usually just what my teeth need when they're looking for chewy gluten cheeriness, especially the ones at Bodo's bagels.  It's an absolute mob there at lunch. For good reason too.

Smoked turkey with bacon, Muenster, and watercress.  Woo! Bacon!! (or should i say, wahoo! sorry, it's a uva thing) Bacon just gets me excited. The whole process of baconizing a pig makes it like 10,000 times better. Too bad they can't genetically engineer a bacon pig. That'd pretty much be my equivalent of a cash cow.

See that side of bacon hanging out there. Reminds me of those light-catcher crystal thingies you hang in the window.  Wouldn't that be a neat idea.  A bacon light-catcher. Dual purpose too.  Good for flies.

So this was the scene of some hard-core brain power as well as some longing anticipation.  Trying to figure out how to craft the godbite.  You can't tell from this angle, but there's an increasing gradient of smoked turkey going from left to right. Thus, the eating plan is start left, finish right.  The cheese was dragged slightly to the right to ensure adequate coverage of the turkey, and the bacon was generously stacked up in the same corner.  Never skimp on the bacon. Never.  The watercress? Eh, just there to look nice-ish.

Made myself a little bacon tail.  Every sandwich should have a bacon tail.  It's also a definite fail-safe again meat slippage.  It happens to the best.  One second the bacon is in one spot, it slips, you take a bite, and the bacon godbite is gone.  I've shed salty tears when I'd much rather be chewing salty bacon.  Don't let it happen to you.

And in the end, one sandwich really isn't enough (is it ever?).  The first time I ever went to Bodo's, I had to go back for a second.  But it's really best to forgo the formalities and just order them both at the same time.