Bagles Bite (Update)!!!!!

This is a picture of abject frustration. Its a 2 oz. serving of St. Louis Bread Company's sun-dried tomato cream cheese. Its very good. But now, at a shade over 1.50 with tax, it is now fifty cents more expensive than the bagel itself. An asiago cheese bagel and sun-dried tomato cream cheese is now rapidly approaching the 3.00 threshold.

Has anybody tried to put the whole 2 ounces on two mortal halves of a bagel? Its like setting off a sun-dried WMD right in your mouth. I don't know what customers clamored for 2oz of pureed cholesterol, but whoever did it must be rich, and by now, fairly obese. 1.50 is way too much for cream cheese of any flavor. Why do I need to pay for the cream-cheese obsessed? Is 1 ounce at 60 cents too much to ask?

A bagel (yes they have Asiago) with cream cheese at the Coffee Cartel is 1.32 after tax. They dont have sun-dried tomato, but regardless, when can I say when? When can you say when? When a bagel and cream cheese finally hits 3.00, will we avoid the lure of convenience, the vcr-size pager buzzers, and the latest fusion-inspired gobbledygook on the menu? You know, the "Samhain molted lava cheese with Siberian tiger-claw ham and fresh Easter Island cracked head lettuce?"

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Arch City Chronicle went on a search for St. Louis' most expensive bagel.

The honor goes to The Clark Street Grill, inside the Westin Hotel on Spruce. No less than FIVE dollars for a bagel and cream cheese. Runner up was the Ritz-Carleton's 4 dollar bagel, and no, these aren't room serive prices.

However, St. Louisans shouldn't feel so bad. New York's priciest bagel is 22 bucks.