flagel

A phone call to David's Bagels confirmed my hunch-a flagel is a bagel that's flattened after it's been boiled and before it goes into the oven.

Serious Eats: New York Alaina Browne 2008

A phone call to David's Bagels confirmed my hunch-a flagel is a bagel that's flattened after it's been boiled and before it goes into the oven.

Serious Eats 2008

The other from tribulus, the head of a flail, or flagel, knaggy and knotty, (made commonly, as I take it, of a thick black thorn,) and then it imports, that afflictions falling upon us as heavy as the flail threshing the corn are styled tribulations.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

Windsor Bagels (where Brownie got this sandwich) can be, I'd imagine the flagel provides a far more edible alternative.

Serious Eats: New York 2010

Windsor Bagels (where Brownie got this sandwich) can be, I'd imagine the flagel provides a far more edible alternative.

Serious Eats: New York 2010

And to be clear, you are not necessarily eating less bagel when you eat a flagel.

Serious Eats: New York Alaina Browne 2008

David's Bagels on 1st Avenue near 19th Street in Manhattan, and my first encounter with a flat bagel, or "flagel."

Serious Eats: New York Alaina Browne 2008

I suspect that more than one flagel creation story may exist, as with the multiple origins of the everything bagel, but we'll stick with Tasty Bagels 'version for now.

Serious Eats: New York Alaina Browne 2008

David's Bagels on 1st Avenue near 19th Street in Manhattan, and my first encounter with a flat bagel, or "flagel."

Serious Eats 2008

We weighed two bagels from David's, a flagel and a regular bagel-both were 5.6 ounces.

Serious Eats: New York Alaina Browne 2008