People in St. Louis slice bagels like bread. Internet not amused.
It doesn’t take much for the denizens of Twitter to get into a tizzy.
Wednesday’s installment came in the form of a bagel. More specifically on how and where it is sliced.
It even had its own hashtag.
Apparently, people in St. Louis "bread-slice" their bagels. And it's angering a lot of people. - @TODAYShow https://t.co/memaWsuI9w
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 27, 2019
Apparently, the citizens of St. Louis get their bagels cut vertically instead of horizontally.
Like bread.
I don’t really eat bagels like this but in light of the triggering it’s caused coastal elites I will forever eat my bagels this way. #BagelGate https://t.co/2Tx80b23PJ
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) March 27, 2019
Earlier in the week, someone with the Twitter handle of Alek Krautmann introduced social media with a photo of said sliced bagels from a Panera.
“Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced. It was a hit!” Krautmann said in the tweet.
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
Not so fast.
Let the uproar begin.
I believe this is a Class A felony in New York City. And if its not, it should be. https://t.co/ngbbPFvnya
— Justin Brannan (@JustinBrannan) March 27, 2019
"911, what is your emergency?"
"I'd like to report murders."
"Plural?"
"Yes. Like a dozen of them."#BAGELGATE https://t.co/itOELqwX22— Christopher Volpe (@iamChrisVolpe) March 27, 2019
No matter how you eat your bagel, it's always best paired with a podcast about @nbcsnl: https://t.co/HKgG7kE802
But for real if you slice it like a loaf of bread, you're a sociopath. #Bagelgate pic.twitter.com/H9WivPtunE
— We Need More Cowbell (@MoreCowbellPod) March 27, 2019
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York wasn’t buying it over the traditional horizontal slice. The Democrat tweeted “St Louis, fuhgeddaboudit.”
On behalf of the New York Delegation:
St. Louis, fuhgeddaboudit. https://t.co/zGvFRfBfJ0
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 27, 2019
New York City’s chief of detectives Dermot Shea thanked posters for reporting “this crime.” He wrote it would never happen in New York.
Thank you for reporting this crime, but we only serve New York City, where this would NEVER happen. https://t.co/dNCyX56svk
— Chief Dermot F. Shea (@NYPDDetectives) March 27, 2019
Bret Gibson is a TribLive digital producer. A South Hills resident, he started working for the Trib in 1998. He can be reached at bgibson@triblive.com.
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