Bring me bagels - My wife recently came back from a trip down to New York City and the first thing I said to her when she came home to Massachusetts was: "Did you bring me any bagels?" She didn't, but she brought back Taylor Ham, so all was forgiven.

Still, I don't know what makes a New York/Northern New Jersey bagel so great but the scribes at Slate have an idea. (H/T Maggie's Farm.) Now if I could just get a pipeline on Cluck-U-Chicken then all would be right in the world.