A Brief History of the Cream Cheese Filled Bagel

Source: http://www.sogoodblog.com/2008/02/26/a-brief-histo...

Displaying mentions in this article, for full text please visit source.

My last post which questioned the uniqueness of the new Kraft Bagel-Fuls (that I originally wrote about last Thursday) was getting filled up with endless updates, so let me summarize in a new post what my research about the history of this concept has discovered:

An eagle eyed reader over at Serious Eats spotted a cream cheese filled, normal shaped round bagel, at the website for SJR Foods:

Turns out, the product seen above is called the “Unholey Bagel” and was released by SJR foods in 1997. Larry Baras is credited as the inventor by some sources.

However, A U.S. Patent for the idea of a cream cheese filled bagel was issued on May 7, 1996 to a man named Alvin Burger. It is unclear what Burger’s involvement with the “Unholey Bagel” is, but he was working to patent the idea around the same time, after he lost the rights to a product he invented called the “Bagel Ball” while he was the owner of Roasters & Toasters.

(more…)

Feeds and posts are not affliated with ://URLFAN. They are displayed here simply for informational purposes, if you would like to remove your feed, posts, or domain from ranking and analysis, please contact us.

://URLFAN (.15)
Contact Us - About ://URLFAN - Notify me when my site is added or updated.