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Mar 28, 2019

So, how do you guys like your bagels sliced?

Depends on the type for me. If it's plain, sliced like bread. if it has poppy seeds/sesame seeds, sliced sandwich style.

The fact that this debate was trending on Twitter is funny but it does lead to a good conversation.

^There's more than one way to slice a bagel? You cut it in half and spread stuff on it, right? (Maybe if you're feeling daring you make a sandwich out of it. Certain very . . . let's just say unconventional things are surprisingly good on bagels. Especially with hot sauce.)

What is "sliced like bread"? Are you cutting it into thin little cracker pieces perpendicular to the plane of the bagel or something? I'm not even sure I get that. Not trying to be doctrinaire, just . . . surprised. And maybe a bit confused. I can see making a kind of bagel cruton that way. Or a little cracker.

Cinnamon Crunch through the bread slicer is the way to go.

Here is what Googlers see on the fist page when the Google "St. Louis". See the 4 questions people have about St. Louis.

NYT has a very nice feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/trav ... ation.html

The triennial exhibition is scaled to a neighborhood in St. Louis and will include thirty-plus site-responsive commissions. On view from April 13 to July 13.

https://hyperallergic.com/493059/lumina ... ouis-2019/

http://counterpublic.us/

Local Burger Kings have been in the national news the past few days because St. Louis is the first place in the country to have "Impossible" Whoppers. I don't really care for it but interesting that out of all the locations where Burger King is, they decided to test out a new item in St. Louis.

https://impossiblefoods.com/burgerking/

I think these corporations randomly select different cities to try new products. They just happened to choose St Louis

Interesting take on the Campbell House Museum, published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

"Taking Possession: The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House"

From the publisher: "West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years.

In Taking Possession, Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory. Crafting narratives about the past that comforted business elites and white middle-class patrons, museum promoters assuaged concerns about the city’s most pressing problems, including racial and economic inequality, segregation and privatization, and the legacies of violence for which St. Louis has been known since Ferguson. Kolk’s case study illuminates the processes by which civic pride and cultural solidarity have been manufactured in a fragmented and turbulent city, showing how closely linked are acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame."

http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/taking-possession

Good for him. It was a strong series and he seems an engaged guy and a fine reporter.

That is a nice little piece.  Glad he had a good time. Glad the Jets played well. He sounds like a classy guy himself, actually.

Good for him! Enjoying our city and trying to cram as much as he could into his short stay. Glad to hear he will come back.

As for all the bars, I don't know how all of you are, but that is a lot of liquor but at least he enjoyed it. 

One more thing, our Midwestern Hospitality (if you can get over jerky crazed drivers) is amazing to visitors. We don't really notice it but boy do others.

^Well, hardly anybody in town lives much more than a block from a bar, really. Maybe two if you're way down a side street. So . . . you're not the only one. Somebody was asking me if I'd been to a particular bar a few blocks away and my first question, in absolute seriousness, was "which one." There's a good half dozen bars within a few blocks of me and I'm in a remarkably normal neighborhood. I'd never even heard of the one he was asking about as I'd have had to walk past a couple others to get there. Have a nice time. Stumble home. It's that kind of town.

Reminds me of the apocryphal story that supposedly happened during a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Somebody ran in yelling "your honor, your bar is on fire", at which point everyone in the room ran out to check on his bar.  

^Heh! I love it! I almost hope it was true at least once in the city's history. (Not that anyone's bar burned down, but that owning one was a prerequisite to getting elected. I mean . . . how else do you get votes?)

I know Vollmer owns Milo's Tavern, does any other alderman own a bar?

Ken Ortmann owned Cat's Meow