The bacon egg and cheese! Amusing side sociological phenomenon: High-end Los Angeles restaurants selling $16 "New York-style" bacon egg and cheese sandwiches to relocated East Coasters with $$.
Now that I'm in Colorado, where the breakfast burrito is the morning meal of choice for commuters and anyone else who walks while they eat breakfast, I do miss the NYC BEC. I'm with you on the cheddar and Tapatio. I bet it's delicious on an everything bagel, but it must be awfully hard to eat. Too hard, too thick to get your mouth around, seeds falling everywhere, not enough absorbency in the bread, yolk and cheese seeping through the hole. I used to get mine on a kaiser roll; still too much bread, and not as flavorful as an everything bagel, but still, soft yet sturdy, absorbent, no hole, not quite as thick.
BTW, I hope in a future installment you'll cross the Hudson and analyze the NJ Taylor Ham version of the BEC. Also quite delicious and commuter-friendly.
The bacon egg and cheese! Amusing side sociological phenomenon: High-end Los Angeles restaurants selling $16 "New York-style" bacon egg and cheese sandwiches to relocated East Coasters with $$.
As someone living in Europe, these look strange and fantastic to me.
What kind of hot sauce do you like on your BEC? I like a really inexpensive, salty, viscous sauce with an egg sandwich like Valentina or El Yucateco.
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"By the summer of 2020, a Bodega Boys-branded BEC ice cream was released. At that point, the sandwich’s status had been cemented"
You spelled 'demented' wrong...
Are we the same person? I am also a cheddar B.E.C. stan, but tuna bagel will always always ALWAYS be my number one!
Now that I'm in Colorado, where the breakfast burrito is the morning meal of choice for commuters and anyone else who walks while they eat breakfast, I do miss the NYC BEC. I'm with you on the cheddar and Tapatio. I bet it's delicious on an everything bagel, but it must be awfully hard to eat. Too hard, too thick to get your mouth around, seeds falling everywhere, not enough absorbency in the bread, yolk and cheese seeping through the hole. I used to get mine on a kaiser roll; still too much bread, and not as flavorful as an everything bagel, but still, soft yet sturdy, absorbent, no hole, not quite as thick.
BTW, I hope in a future installment you'll cross the Hudson and analyze the NJ Taylor Ham version of the BEC. Also quite delicious and commuter-friendly.