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Of course, you can always count on Americans to try and cross-breed two good things to get something supposedly even better. This is how one Brooklyn bakery in 2014 created the [https://www.eonline.com/news/500423/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-cragel-half-bagel-half-croissant-and-100-happiness cragel,] or a croissant and bagel in one.
The legend fails to explain one thing: why would the Viennese Jews need to invent the bagel, if Cracovian Jews had been already baking it for years? The oldest known mention of the Jewish bagel comes for sumptuary laws issued by the Jewish community of Cracow in 1610. Mentions of the ''obwarzanek'' (pronounced '': {{pron|awb-|vah-<small>ZHAH</small>-neck''|zhah|nek}}), a Polish ring-shaped bread closely related to the bagel, date back even further, to the early 15th century (I promise to write how to tell a bagel from an obwarzanek and an obwarzanek from a pretzel in a separate post). But according to Maria Balinska,<ref>{{Cyt
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