But those two have never shared a bagel as they waited to play for the US Open title.
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THERE'S A BAGEL renaissance on, with artisans turning out hand-rolled, heavily seeded, wood-oven-baked bagels all over the country.
Chaim Leggiere picks up a bagel most days on the way to work.
They decided to introduce Bell's bialys--flatter than a bagel and hole-less, they're made with water, flour, yeast, salt and ground onions--to Japan.
Kitamura argues that no one makes a bagel--even a frozen one--like a New Yorker, and that will keep Bagel K in demand.
Ms. Musgnug, now a 7th-grade teacher, once had a summer job at a bagel store where customers would come in asking her to scoop out bagels.
The other day I was standing in line a bagel store and I counted seven screens (phones, flatscreen TVs, computers) within my clear line of site.
If, say, owning a bagel shop somehow proved to be just as glamorous, right now teenagers would be boiling delicious circles of bread in their parents' garage.
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Grab a bagel with cream cheese and lox and head east to the intriguing, esoteric American Museum of Natural History, which is housed in a massive 19th-century Beaux Arts building off Central Park West.
And there were neighborhood locals and regulars, many of whom are so used to swinging in for a bagel on the way to work that they didn't even notice that the sign and awning were gone.
For example, a local bagel shop rewards customers with free bagels and a chance to arm wrestle the owner for a percentage of the business.
He was living in a volcanic field on Santa Cruz island 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, where you couldn't find a decent bagel if you tried: in fact, a place a lot like Washington.
"I'm not a huge bagel person but their bagels are so good I have to get them, " said the 21-year-old.
Instead, we get an ad for a new bagel breakfast sandwich.
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It all ought to be good news for a displaced New Yorker like me: Since I moved to California, a great local bagel shop has become but a memory.
Schmucker, a Pittsburgh native who graduated from Penn State, started a chain of bagel shops with some of his childhood buddies.
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The highest-ranked woman in action on day one was second seed Maria Sharapova, who destroyed Russian compatriot Olga Puchkova 6-0 6-0 -- known as a "double bagel" -- in just 55 minutes.
They were admittedly fantastic sweet and seedy and small enough to leave you wanting another one, as opposed to what passes, in most parts of the country, for a New York bagel, which can be humongous and as fluffy as Wonderbread.
The maker of ketchup, bagel bites and a host of other products, surged more than 20% in pre-market trading to above the bid price.
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That there was even a world's most expensive bagel demonstrates how many most-expensive products can coexist so long as categories are defined narrowly.
Having restarted on solid food with a few mouthfuls of crisps, Blaine is moving onto a diet including fruit salad and bagel and cheese.
Breakfast was a carb lover's delight: Cheerios, mini bagel, white bread and an orange.
That brought him in contact with a finance professor who persuaded him to give up on his bagel idea.
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Long passionate about the subject, Quinnipiac president John Lahey eventually inspired the ear of bagel entrepreneur Murray Lender who helped make the museum a reality.
But the company was dismissive of our Virtual Bagel experiment which had managed to gain 3, 000 "likes" for a non-existent business in a few days by placing some adverts.
Baltacha, making her main draw debut at Roland Garros, must have feared a repeat of compatriot Anne Keothavong's 6-0 6-0 'double bagel' defeat by Dinara Safina at last year's French Open.
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