Full of Bagel Ful

[51stcenturyfox]

It is the peer-pressure packaged food meme. (I don't even know. I made that up). Try some manufactured commercial foodstuff your friends endorse, even if the picture on the box freaks you out.

I mean, look at it. It doesn't look that creepy, just kind of unappetizing. Or am I wrong?




Yup, I am trying Kraft Bagel Fuls. I'd never heard of them or seen the commercials. copperbadge mentioned their handy breakfasty nature first, but how could I resist these glowing testimonials from snaxcident ?



Once you try the Bagel Fuls you will all be glad. You will wonder how you managed in the Before Times

Once you go Bagel Ful you can never go back to not knowing. It's like taking the red pill or the blue pill. But it's not a pill, it's a tube made out of bagel. - Claire


Claire should write their ads. That's even better than "My husband gives me one every morning." She made a chocolate cake with Diet Coke and Pimm's in it, so she is adventurous.

REVIEW!

Name: Bagel Fuls. Bagel Full Of Cream Cheese and whatever (mine has cherry jam-like stuff.) There are other flavors.
Packaging: See above. Each Bagel Ful is individual wrapped in a foil packet for carrying. "Hey, baby, is that a Bagel Ful in your pocket, or..."
Prep: They can be microwaved or toasted lightly, or shoved in your pocket right out of the fridge for portable munching.
Look: Golden brown pre-toasted appearance. They are about an inch shorter in length than a standard hot dog bun. They look better in the flesh for realz than as pictured on the box. On the box they look dry where they're ripped open.
Smell: Hardly any scent at all. I've got my nose pressed against one, very hard. Hmm. Most plain bagels don't SMELL anyway, though.
Texture: Not really dry nor moist. Smoother than a baby's bottom, but an unmoisturized baby. Resembles a frozen commercial bagel like Pillsbury's/Lender's'.
Taste: Unremarkable. Stretchy/chewy when you bite into it. Like a... plain bagel bun stuffed with cream cheese and cherry. The filling is like Toaster Strudel Cherry and... cream cheese. Not terrible but not ZOMG NOMMY! I can see having these for breakfast if you commute and don't have time to sit down and toast a bagel then spread cream cheese on it. (Though... 5 minutes.)
Grade: B. I will eat the rest of these ($2.50 per box) but probably won't buy them again.

Claire, have you tried the ONE POUND HUNGRY MAN DINNERS YET?

Tried anything different lately?

Comments

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

I'm... taking these off my Peapod delivery. It doesn't sound NOMMY enough to try, even for $2 a box.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

See, not TERRIBLE food, but not... great either.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

I can get fresh bagels, I can get good cream cheese, these seem so goyishe to me that I can't get into it. Oh well. *shrug*

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

these seem so goyishe to me that I can't get into it
THIS. I just keep thinking that clearly Kraft needs to hire more Jews to stop this from happening ever again.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I can even get fresh bagels here!

But I would pick the bag o' trail mix over a granola bar, too. Maybe I have an irrational thing against bars/bricks of food.

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Bagelfuls make me cry inside. D;

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Everyone said they were so good! I went against my instincts upon seeing the box and was disappointed. :(

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

wow, I must have tapped into the collective bagel unconscious ... but I have been craving bagel.

have not seen the fabled bagelful around these parts, but I suspect they're hiding until they're ready to leap out at people!!

goes back to eating poptart...

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

If they leap out, I'm RUNNING AWAY.

Poptarts, I like. I run them under water for a fraction of a second before toasting for maximum tarty moisture.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to add I laughed like a loon yesterday when I stopped at my Sheetz, and saw they have Bagelfuls in the single serve packs in their quick foods section. :0)

It just confirmed my choice of a bagel sandwich for dinner before audtions.

much LULZ!!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

:D

Now a bagel sandwich, with turkey and cheese and things? I could get behind that.

Or with eggs and stuff on it for breakfast. YAYS!

[shannon730.livejournal.com]

So I can continue to refuse to buy these when I go grocery shopping with my mom. She's been oddly insistent on me trying them considering she doesn't like bagels at all, and I don't like cream cheese, so the chances of either of us liking them seems slim.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Definitely! If you don't love those two things... nahhh.

[shannon730.livejournal.com]

And she so loves when my basis for not buying something she thinks is a good idea is that someone she's never met told me it wasn't worth it. :) But really, I don't actually find making a bagel to be that time consuming. The actually eating it is rather exhausting but that's because the dog is staring at me as if I never feed her every time I eat...I'm pretty sure she'll do that with the Bagel-Fuls too. :)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Probably!

My dogs had their faces in their chow bowls when I nommed this, so they didn't chase me around whining. :)

[shannon730.livejournal.com]

That never works with mine. She's clearly figured out that whatever I'm eating tastes better than what's in her bowl. Unless it's green beans, peas, salad, or Frosty Paw Ice Cream. (not that she's at all spoiled.)

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

Back when I was eating packaged foods (gluten free now, alas), I remember that the breakfast options were usually the grossest. Though I did have a weakness for Pillsbury bacon, egg and cheese Toaster Strudels. The transfat just flaked off the pastry and the cheese sauce made from candle wax and vegetable oil was DELICIOUS.

A cake with diet coke and Pimm's. Wonder if that could be made with GF cake mix.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

They have bacon, egg and cheese Toaster Strudels? (!!!)

I thought they just had blueberry and strawberry and things like that. The stuff I miss!


I've got tunnel vision when I shop and rarely try anything new.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I AM GOING TO THE STORE JUST FOR THESE (AND COFFEE AND HALF AND HALF) TODAY.

What is today food Wednesday? I have a post on croissanwiches!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

But.

I don't know. To me these were like buying packaged doughnuts when you can get bakery doughnuts. :D

Why don't I have a coffee icon?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing-- to get bakery doughnuts, you have to go to the bakery and get them fresh. EVERY DAY. I am a lazy ho-- so I will not go to the store and get fresh bagels. I don't even like to put cream cheese on the bagel. I just stare at them in the fridge and say, "whateva. I'll eat this assemblage-free apple" But as Claire said, KRAFT HAD FILLED A NEED I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I HAD.

NOM. OM NOM.

[snaxcident.livejournal.com]

YES.

THANK YOU KRAFT.

I didn't know what I was lacking (breakfast) until you gave it to me in manageable portions (10 microwaveable seconds).

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

FOR SRS! I DON'T EVEN EAT BREAKFAST! BUT I MIGHT START!

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

I will probably try this when and if it makes it out to my coast, but I suspect I won't go for it twice. I'm with Spiderine; this sounds like a goyische attempt to co-opt bagels. And bagels WILL NOT BE CO-OPTED!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

You'll try them!

Now, I'll eat a Jimmy Dean croissanwich. I won't lie.


But a homemade croissanwich is MUCH BETTA!

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

I already failed in my hunt, and maybe after reading your review I am glad?

Who to believe--you, or those two?

Hmmm...

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't like them much, but I'd never tell you what not to nom on!

[snaxcident.livejournal.com]

US TWO, THANK YOU !

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Well...

You WILL always be My Captain...and Sam NEVER lies, right, so I guess I will believe you. So if I ever see them, I will buy them, and decide for myself.

Not that I plan to eat them. They'd be for my son. Right. Yes.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I don't lie, either!

I'm not going to lie and say they were awesome just because the Cap and the Butler like 'em. Jesus.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

LOL. I believe you! I do!

Did you have the same flavor as Foxy though? Maybe it is just the Cherry that isn't so good. I for one would pass on anything cherry, anyway.

[snaxcident.livejournal.com]

'The Cap and Butler' sounds like a bitchin' easy listening group. We use lots of clarinet and saxophone.

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

Gluten is also banished from this household. Even so, that box has the suspicious look of an MDO (= Most Degrading Option).

HOWEVER. "I blame Claire" is certainly the best new tag of the week. :)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I was going to blame Sam but Claire promoted them harder. REALLY HARD. :D

[snaxcident.livejournal.com]

In YOUR FACE hard.

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the review...been wondering about these.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I did it so you don't have to!

But you can; they didn't make me go EWWWW or anything of that sort. :)

[snaxcident.livejournal.com]

I WILL TRY THE ONE POUND HUNGRY MEN. It's going to be a workplace fiesta!

I am shocked that you have the temerity to suggest Bagel Fuls aren't a necessity of life. Like air, water, Pimm's, etc.

Taste: Unremarkable

Maybe your taste buds are busted???? That must be what happened here.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

My taste buds are fine! I like Pimm's don't I?

That is the true test of taste buds.

I didn't think Bagel Fuls were nasty or anything, Claire. (And we are still palate-buddies when it comes to seafood, si?)

[snaxcident.livejournal.com]

Si!!!!!

I'm generously allowing you to like different things than I do.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!

XOXO!

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

It's not bad. It's not good. It's just ok. It's like eating a warm edible creamy baby arm. Maybe a leg.

I'll buy them if I have a coupon. My daughter eats these like crazy, though.

Now those Kashi thin frozen pizzas...? Total cardboard. I love me some Kashi but those pizzas are ridiculously not worth it.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

When you say "baby arm", I totally think of something...else.

Kashi thin pizzas are nasty. Mr Fox likes them, though. :P

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

Oh you mean Pump Up The Volume's Happy Harry Hard-on and his "Is it bigger than a baby's arm..." thingie? Yeah, that's probably where I got it from.

I'll eat the Kashi pizza things but only if it's free and I can add more cheese because otherwise, WHY? Now the oatmeal's good even though I've yet to figure out how to keep it from exploding in the microwave.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] just posted a link to her brother in an old Kashi commercial.

Their cereal is very decent!

[mrsalemp.livejournal.com]

I tried these a while back, I think it was the cinnamon flavor though. They were okay, not great but there are worse ready made breakfasts out there. Major plus in its favor was the fact it required zero effort to make, very important before I've had coffee in the morning.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I did see those. Yup, no effort.

Totally can't eat without having about three cups of coffee first. I think it's a habit from childhood when my parents made me take vitamins and orange juice every morning. Fluuuuuuids!

[mrsalemp.livejournal.com]

Luckily I work where the coffee comes from, otherwise I'd never make it through the morning. 6:45am is an ungodly hour to force a girl to be cheerful.