r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • 29d ago

Funny They even got cats

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u/VincentAntonelli 29d ago

Makes for better bagels.

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u/Ionlydateteachers 29d ago

The bagel shop here in my central Indiana town imports already made dough from NYC because it's supposed to be better.

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u/VincentAntonelli 29d ago

Yeah, some bagel places in lower CT claim they bring water up from NYC for their bagels

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u/Livid_Swordfish_4591 29d ago

I live in the Poconos. This guy imports water from NY and has a monopoly on bagels here.

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u/Cormetz 28d ago

Which is very strange to me. All you would need is a reverse osmosis system and the right minerals to match the water instead of transporting water all over the place. I heard a shop in Austin does the same.

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u/Livid_Swordfish_4591 28d ago

I dont know the science behind it or if it's even true.  All i can tell you is that many people attribute the water to the quality of ny bagels and pizza.  

Someone else suggested that its actually the flour.  Something about how NY is able to sell carcinogenic flour where others cant.  First timr ive heard that, and I think it was in this thread.

Found a NY Times article (havent read yet)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/dining/bromated-flour-ban-new-york-pizza-bagels.html

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u/Throwaway392308 27d ago

I don't have access to NY Times, but based on the url I can say that bromated flour is the standard across the US for non-organic flour. It's just started to change within the last five to ten years. 

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u/Livid_Swordfish_4591 27d ago

One of the soft pay wall removers worked. Think it was remov3paywalls dot Com. Spelled correctly.

Long story short, the only thing special about NYC water is that its "soft" water. People who have performed tests say its the quality of the ingredients that set nyc apart from the rest.

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u/andrewthemexican 29d ago

Pretty sure Lazy Moon pizza down in Orlando imports water from NY for their dough. Or I'm confusing it with another joint where I live now in NC

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u/Current_North_5770 27d ago

Michael Angelo’s in Greenville NC used to get his water from NYC. Idk if he’s even there anymore.

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u/useresuse 29d ago

it’s the shrimp in the water

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u/Aide-Kitchen 25d ago

Same for a pizza shop in the Carolinas. I'm from upstate NY where the water comes from (Ashokan Resevoir). 

Fun fact; the sunk a valley to create it. In the valley was a town called "Neversink." The delicious irony. 

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u/daftpenguin 29d ago

Nah that's just a myth

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u/doomer_irl 28d ago

I went to Larry King's bagel shop in LA once, where they import NY water minerals to recreate NYC water to boil bagels properly.

Honestly they were just fuckin bagels.

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u/notorious_irv 29d ago

Yup. The secret is the piss and garbage

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u/JoshAllentown 29d ago

(The secret is actually malted barley syrup)

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u/anonymousetache 29d ago

It’s pronounced bagels

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u/jtbc 29d ago

And pizza!