{"id":654,"date":"2009-12-31T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=654"},"modified":"2009-12-30T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:49:23","slug":"great-meals-southbound-bagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/12\/great-meals-southbound-bagels\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Meals: Southbound Bagels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>An earlier post related how I often ate a bagel for breakfast. Those were the bagels that motels buy from grocery stores. I have no idea how those grocery stories cook those thing they call bagels. They are round with a hole in the middle and are brown, so they do look like bagels. Looks, however, can be deceiving and in the case of grocery-store bagels, looks are deceiving.<\/p>\n<p>While I was approaching Hattiesburg, Mississippi, my nephew, who lives there, told me about a little place on Route 11 as it passes through the old downtown area. Next to the railroad tracks is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southboundbagel.com\/\">Southbound Bagels<\/a>. I walked through downtown Hattiesburg during the morning and made sure to find this place. I am glad that I did.<\/p>\n<p>They actually cook bagels here &#8211; just like you are supposed to. You mix a good dough, form the bagel, boil it, then bake it. These are real bagels. It is hard for me to emphasize the difference between grocery-store imitation bagels and real bagels. Let me repeat, the Southbound Bagel place in Hattiesburg has real bagels.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks of eating awful things disguised as bagels accentuated the goodness of Southbound&#8217;s bagels.<\/p>\n<p>My older brother and I stopped in for a cup of coffee and a bagel. After finishing, I ordered a second bagel and had a refill of coffee. I considered a third bagel and a fourth, but training in social etiquette from early childhood prevented that. Sometimes I regret the training in social etiquette that I had as a child.<\/p>\n<p>When the walk was finished, I drove from Louisiana back to my home in Reston, Virginia. I exited the Interstate, wound my way through Hattiesburg, and stopped at Southbound Bagels for a cup of coffee and a couple of bagels. It was well worth the detour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips An earlier post related how I often ate a bagel for breakfast. Those were the bagels that motels buy from grocery stores. I have no idea how those grocery stories cook those thing they call bagels. They are round with a hole in the middle and are brown, so they do look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[144,93,114],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","tag-food","tag-restaurants","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}