i didn't know it had raisins in it ...

there were complimentary bagels at work today.

although i like my new job, i think that they are secretly trying to fatten me up (they've done this bagel thing before ... and i had TWO!)

anyway, i went back, expecting to get the same cinnamon crusted bagel with the honey wheat reduced fat cream cheese spread as before. well, THIS time, i touched one just as i noticed that it had raisins in it. and other people were in the kitchen area. so i was obligated to take it.

so i buttered it (with butter-like spread) and took it back to my office - expecting to be able to just take out the raisins. how many could there be?

well, to put it nicely, there were a whole crapload of raisins. had the owner bought these from the grocery store, perhaps there would have been fewer. but these were CLEARLY bread company bagels. chock full of raisins. not just the brown ones you can buy at the store, but also the "golden" ones that my mother searched forever to find (not at the grocery store or sams -- i think she found them online). and when i say chock-full, i mean CHOCK-FULL. it was like a raisin lovers dream.

now, i'm in my office, trying to pick out the damned things and just ended up having to throw it away. i would pick a piece, and even though it was a small piece, there was still a raisin in it. there was nothing i could do about it. they were EVERYWHERE (that's right, CHOCK-FULL-O-RAISINS).

and, i guess the universe was trying to tell me to "step away from the bagel".

the moral of the story is -- wait for everyone to leave the "kitchen area" before feeling around on the bagels.