this guy on the Great British Baking Show tried to make bagels and they went really flat, so he’s being gently kidded at about having invented bagel/flatbread hybrids, “flagels”, and I’m just over here genuinely wanting to try that. I like the outer part of the bagel the most, a flat bagel would be ALL outer part.
Somebody make me the flagels!
Also, I learned that bagels are made by poaching the dough shapes before baking, which is why they have that skin and the texture. I’m a fan. Bagels are the best possible bread component of a peanut butter sandwich, IMO.