In strong contention for the "Most New York Thing to Ever Happen," a NYC-based deli worker is being praised after vehemently denying a customer their weird and disgraceful bagel order.
According to the now-viral TikTok, customer Taylor Offer starts off his video with a real bang: "There's nothing more stressful than ordering a bagel in New York City." Okay, so I can name so many things that are more stressful. But go on.
He then details his bagel order of choice: A gluten-free bagel that is then "scooped out" (meaning all the good doughy innards are removed so it can then be filled with cream cheese).
If you just felt an eery tingle up your spine, you're not alone. TikTok has widely condemned the, yes, Los Angeles native for ordering such a thing. The order is so far from still being a bagel that it's essentially just a bagel by name alone.
And so did the worker at said deli. According to Offer, "The guy just looks at me and goes, ‘I’m not scooping your f–king bagel, bro.'"
While Offer seems to have thought the TikTok reactions would be of support, it couldn't have been further than that. Commenters widely bashed the order, appropriately in horror, leaving comments like, "I’m team bagel shop. Scooped bagel is a crime." And "I imagine a scooped bagel is like ordering a muffin and only eating the wrapper."
"'Yeah lemme get a car, no wheels'" and, my favorite, "So proud of the deli guy for setting healthy boundaries."
Spoiler: He did, unfortunately, convince another deli to make the shameful order, and he's since gone on, if you can believe it, to become even more punchable by the minute by also admitting to eating a very glutinous dollar slice of pizza then giving the crust to a homeless man who then fed the crust to his pet mice.
Offer adds in his original video that this order is widely available at bagel shops in LA, but it does beg the question: Just because you can do something, does it really mean you should?
From one Los Angeles resident to another, I beg Offer to please scoop his own bagels in the privacy of his own home, so no one has to see such a horrific crime occur. LA already has enough bad publicity (and severely lacking bagel options).
