Bagels For Breakfast

It wasn't a crunchy crust that I was trying to get on my bread, it was a chewy crust.  During the yeast shortage last year, I was looking for some kind of store bought bread that I liked, and I re-discovered bagels.  I seemed to remember that I liked them but I didn't remember why.  According to Wiki, the way they get the chewy crust on bagels is by dropping them into boiling water for one minute before putting them in the oven.  I suppose that might work with my bread too but, with store bought bagels so readily available, I lost interest in home baking.  Most store bought breads are sliced too thin for my taste, you need three slices to get the same amount of bread that I used to get with two slices of my own bread.  The trouble is, three slices will not fit in my toaster oven without overlapping, which leaves an untoasted patch on the slice that gets covered, unless you want to stop the toaster and rotate the slices halfway through the process.  Bagels are thick enough that one bagel, which comes pre-sliced, fits easily and gives me plenty of bread.  The pre-sliced, halves do tend to stick together, so I just run a knife between them to free them up before I toast them.  

One way to avoid the "folkier than thou" argument is to call it "traditional music" instead of "folk music".  For a song to be classified as traditional, the name of the author needs to be unknown.  You can fool around with a traditional piece without running afoul of copywrite laws.  Many traditional songs have several different versions in existence, and you can put your own spin on one of them if you want to with impunity.  It is not uncommon for a totally different set of lyrics to be attached to the same tune, so I am certainly not the first one to do that, and neither is Bob Dylan.