Around here dumplings are "boiled bread" and they are nothing like bagels.
Do you mean to tell me some people use rendered chicken fat like butter???
I agree, YUCK!

Thanks for the explanation of The Bronx.  Now how about the other four?
parts of NYC?  I can't think what they are called and I think there are
five but I'm not sure.  Brain fart, at my age I'm entitled.  Ruth





At 8:18 AM -0500 12/27/04, Pamela S. Follett wrote:
>Ruth -
>
>Schmear = cream cheese and it's called The Bronx because the area was owned
>by the Bronck family - hoity toity people, so if you got invited up to The
>Bronck's, you were doing very well.  Bagels are just boiled bread - what's
>the matter with that?  Especially with schmear, some lox (not The Lox) and a
>little red onion.  YUM!  Now, if you're one of those people who likes
>schmaltz (rendered chicken fat), then I agree - yucky.
>
>- Pam
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