@Scrugger:

You win this thread.

These are totally brilliant! My husband and son love them as much as I do. Pop them in the microwave for ten seconds and you are set for brekkie. They actually taste really yummy! And, no, I don't work for Kraft.

This looks fucking delicious

I'm with the others on this: stuff a sausage in it, wrap it in bacon, sprinkle it with chocolate chips and give me something to dip it in (syrup, gravy, whatever...) and there you have a real nice breakfast-on-the-go.

@zentex: On MREs - I like the Wheat Bead Snack, personally.

These things look terrible - and there's something about frozen cream cheese in a frozen white bagel that makes me think of the thing about mayonnaise in "Undercover Brother."

And, I posted about these on my blog the other week, insisting that they were another sign of the downfall of America. Seriously, were there people crying out for frozen bagel cheese tubes, and pretzel/cracker hybrids? Did I miss this?

I'm obviously going to reveal myself as well beneath the foodie status of most the posters on this board but the cinnamon ones are pretty good. They're like $1.50 for four and I can throw the box in fridge at work so I can grab something to eat in between going to the gym and work.

my cousins used to eat these horrible breakfast corndog-esque things. they were a pancake wrapped around sausage on a stick that came with a package of syrup. i was happy with kix.

my wife took one bite and spit it out. I didn't care about the taste and mulled thru the rest...but then again I'll eat MRE's and smile about it. But I won't eat one again.

cream cheese is best cold...I don't know if it's the fakeness of the filling or what...but it's pretty nasty and oozes out the other end with each bite.

I've tried, them, they taste fine. Sure processed is worse than everything, but sometimes the convience factor far out weighs other factors. Problem with the bagels, is my niceces don't like bagels and cream cheese.

Hmmm Fresh bagles with cream cheese or overpriced frozen turds... Oh, Kraft why do you make these choices so hard.

And people wonder why our emergency rooms are overflowing and health insurance costs are rising. I can see people eating these by the boxful. Disgusting.

@Shutaro: Oooo.... maybe with some coke syrup on it

I swear I have seen these before...Bageldogs were a hot dog wrapped in bagel crust.

But nothing beats a made-in-new-york bagel. I've had to bring them with me to relatives in Atlanta.

groosssssss

Cream cheese is the devil!

That stuff tears up my digestive tract. That said, frozen bagels are bad enough, but now that Kraft makes them, I'm sure they're even worse. Who wants to bet it's just their frozen pretzel dough without some brown dye?

Some days, I see stuff like this and... not so much.

Man you people are a bunch of whiners! You call yourselves consumers??

I'm gonna hold off judgement before actually trying one. Sounds like a cool idea to me.

@Youthier: Man, companies should never get product ideas from Seinfeld episodes.

@dweebster:

The same lack-of-a-trademark problem exists for provolone cheese. Provolone cheese is NOT a slicing cheese for sandwiches. But delis get to say they have provolone for your sandwiches but that white roll isn't it.

Anyway, I have enough real bagel stores here in NYC so I don't have to buy kraft's idea of a bagel with a schmear.

I'm trying to resist, damnit! My principles are at stake.

I'm pretty sure that Kraft would lawyer up if I started selling shrink-wrapped packages of monkey poop labelled as "Kraft cheese." And yet, because the word "bagel" is apparently not a trademark, Kraft can apparently sell something that barely isn't anywhere near an honest bagel as such. Just sick.

@mgy: Because of this comment, I know you have never had an Uncrustables sandwich. I too was once someone who thought "How lame, what kind of a lazy person needs a premade pb&j?"

Just try one...

I'll waste my carb/fat calories on actual, boiled, fresh NY bagels.

At what point is there a revolt and this constant stream of crappy "innovative" shit food streaming out from the conglomerates gets tossed out of the grocery stores and more and more basic food gets shipped in?

"ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR IDEA?" If that's how well further fucking up the food supply is paying then we need to have a serious discussion about our priorities as a society.

BagelDogs weren't half bad, as long as you could forgive the lousy bagels and the sub-par hotdogs. What assclown genius got a chunk of $100 million dollars to substitute cream cheese for a hot dog?

I'm more offended by those new muffin tops Eggo waffle things. I mean, at least frozen bagels have precedent. Have you ever eaten a toaster muffin?

Unit Price:

BagelFuls: $0.75-$1.00

Fresh Bagel with Cream Cheese: ~$0.50 - $0.56

There really are no words to describe that - except maybe "dreck"?

It looks (and sounds) horrendous. I'll stick with fresh bagels from the shop near my office - especially since they do it the "right" way (boil, then bake).

Just like Doritos 3D do a good job making those empty shelves look full.

/Do we really need such a product?

those have been around for a few years now in the form of
baglers [www.bagelers.com]

Only 2.5 Oz and roughly 60 cents each. That's a pretty high price for something like this.

@B: and deep fries it

blech!

I've never really been a fan of American-style bagels. Once you've hit real, decent fresh-off-the-wood-fire bagels (Kettleman's, Ottawa Bagel Shop, any decent bagel shop in Toronto or Montreal, one I found in New Jersey...) you'll never eat the crap they sell in grocery stores.

YES! Just this morning! :P

I would never buy this though.

Eh- this could be useful if they made them in whole wheat and low fat cream cheese. But I'd miss that crunch, and the nasty attitude of the owner of my local bagel shop.

@billbillbillbill: It doesn't sound too unhealthy considering it's got cream cheese inside it: "Each has approximately 200 calories, six grams of fat, around 220 mg of sodium and no trans fat."

While a clever idea, I can't see frozen bagles ever being tastier than fresh ones. Ever. But the last paragraph in the linked story pretty much confirms that notion.

Reminds me of those "uncrustables" sandwiches. Like those, this is just a reason to make the last remaining bastions of cheap eats more "convenient" and thus more expensive.

yuck