--- title: Bread Sliced Bagel Hack Is Riling Up the Internet description: A photo of bagels sliced like bread on Twitter is provoking strong reactions amongst bagel-loving purists. canonical: https://time.com/5559947/bread-sliced-bagel/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-27T20:26:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T00:13:07.000Z og:title: This Unusual Bagel Slicing Hack Is Riling Up the Internet og:description: Bagels sliced like bread are raising eyebrows online og:url: https://time.com/5559947/bread-sliced-bagel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Unusual Bagel Slicing Hack Is Riling Up the Internet twitter:description: Bagels sliced like bread are raising eyebrows online twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Sliced Bagel Hack Is Really a Lot for Many People to Take In > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ## Video: Here Is Why Poppy Seed Bagels Might Make You Fail A Drug Test [Watch (HLS stream): Here Is Why Poppy Seed Bagels Might Make You Fail A Drug Test](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TS1qOUnN.m3u8) (1:37)  _Published 2018-08-08. Opium, heroin, codeine and morphine all come from opium poppies. While poppy seeds do not actually contain any of these substances, they can become tainted with morphine during the harvesting process._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:13 AM UTCPublished: Mar 27, 2019 8:26 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:13 AM UTCPublished: Mar 27, 2019 8:26 PM UTC Everyone has [strong opinions](https://www.bonappetit.com/story/cynthia-nixon-bagel-order-review) about bagels. Today, Twitter learned just how strong those opinions really were after one user shared a photo of what he called the “St. Louis secret of ordering bagels,” which involves getting your morning carbohydrates sliced from top to bottom like a loaf of bread, instead of lengthwise as it’s traditionally done. “It was a hit!” Alex Krautmann wrote, adding a photo for evidence. It may have been a successful snack time for Krautmann’s office, but it turns out Krautmann, who [is a meteorologist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alek-krautmann-5277a248/) now working as a program coordination officer at NOAA for the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS), was in for quite a different reaction when his slicing style was exposed to the brutal honesty of internet critics. > [](https://twitter.com/AlekKrautmann/status/1110341506802552832) Krautmann’s bagel hack was mostly panned online as a form of breakfast blasphemy — although the folks at the [Panera Bread](http://time.com/5558842/krispy-kreme-nazi-connection/) did tweet at him offering free bagels “sliced however you’d like,” which seems like a potential win for both Krautmann and his coworkers. > [](https://twitter.com/panerabread/status/1110933327106752512) Then again, pretty much everyone else was universally opposed to this form of bagel defamation, including Olympic skier [Gus Kenworthy](http://time.com/5164823/lgbt-gus-kenworthy-olympics-2018/). Bagels are [historically associated](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-the-bagel-49555497/) with Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the U.S. in the late 19th century, tracing back to roots in Poland, and are often a hot topic of both reverence and debate by purists. > [](https://twitter.com/guskenworthy/status/1110935687451365377) > [](https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1110949561667911681) > [](https://twitter.com/Ranjrz5/status/1110921739238866945) > [](https://twitter.com/JamieABaum/status/1110984535976673281) > [](https://twitter.com/peta/status/1110953867032911873) > [](https://twitter.com/DustinGrowick/status/1110982787111309312) > [](https://twitter.com/heykim/status/1110957718372646913) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5559947/bread-sliced-bagel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5559947/bread-sliced-bagel/"},"headline":"This Sliced Bagel Hack Is Really a Lot for Many People to Take In","datePublished":"2019-03-27T20:26:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T00:13:07.000Z","description":"To slice or not to slice?","url":"https://time.com/5559947/bread-sliced-bagel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5559947/bread-sliced-bagel/","name":"This Sliced Bagel Hack Is Really a Lot for Many People to Take In"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Here Is Why Poppy Seed Bagels Might Make You Fail A Drug Test","description":"Opium, heroin, codeine and morphine all come from opium poppies. 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