By special request my need for a true New York style onion bagel arrived at Rose Foods  this past Sunday.  Studded with onions and salt these were the true bagels of my youth growing up in New York.

A basket of onion bagels fresh out of the oven at Rose Foods

To me the onion bagel is iconic beyond all others.  Though the most universally popular is still the everything bagel, which I find too overwhelming, an ersatz plotz of disparate spices coating the most common bagel.

Rose Foods’ onion bagel spread with cream cheese, red onion, Nova, tomato and capers on a lightly toasted onion bagel

But here at last Rose Foods bagel lineup is complete at last. Spread with full-fat cream cheese, Nova (Rose Foods), thin-sliced red onion, a splash of capers and slices of tomato, this Sunday my bagel repast was complete.  I bought a baker’s half dozen, which are now sliced, put in a zip-log freezer bag to store frozen for future use, replenished, I hope, with future piles of Rose Foods’ excellent onion bagels.