Many North Americans associate bagels with breakfast.
Legend has it that they were originally a homage to a Polish king who saved Vienna, Austria, from a Turkish invasion in 1683.
A local Jewish baker thanked the king by creating a special hard roll in the shape of a stirrup to commemorate the Polish cavalry.
One word used to describe a stirrup in Austria is beugel.
In Yiddish, bagel means a “ring,” often a bracelet.
Sprinkled with onions, a bagel is called a bialy, after the Polish city Bialystock.
The Bagel was invented in Kraków, Poland, as a competitor to the bublik, a lean bread of wheat flour designed for Lent.
In the 16th century, the bajgiel became a staple of the Polish national diet.
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