The Village Voice, March 26th, 2003
Counter Culture
SAVORING THE BENSONHURST OCTOPUS
>In the beginning there was Tasty Bagel, founded in 1983 by two brothers from Bensonhurst. The next year they invented the big wheel bagel, a behemoth dough ring piled high with Italian cold cuts and butchered into 26 sandwiches. A decade later on the same spot the flagel was born-a flattened bagel liberally sprinkled with sesame seeds or other toppings. A recent road test confirms the appeal of the shape and taste, although it's the dickens to cut and goes stale at an accelerated rate.
The empire expanded. Tasty Bagel begat Tasty Chicken,...
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