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Hey guys, it's Aly.
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I'm here with a very
special co-eater today:
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This is my brother.
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Charlie, good morning, guys.
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Living in New York City,
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we have access to some of the best
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bagels and lox in the country.
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But which holds the esteemed
title of best of the best?
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We polled our Instagram followers,
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read countless reviews online,
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talked to friends to see
which places to try today,
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so we could narrow it down and see.
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[Charlie] Which is the best
bagel in New York City?
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Do you think we're gonna agree on stuff?
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We don't agree on anything.
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I knew Charlie was just
the man for the job
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of helping me find the
best bagel and lox sandwich
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in New York City.
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Not only is he a connoisseur,
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but he loves bagels so much
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that he even proposed to his fianc茅e
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at our first stop, Russ and Daughters.
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First, if you see this line, it's crazy.
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We gotta take a number.
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So we are number 651,
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and they're only on 629.
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We've got a ways to go,
but it's worth the wait.
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Russ and Daughters is a
fourth-generation family business,
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and there's a reason it
stood the test of time.
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This place started in 1914.
It's over a hundred years old.
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It's gonna be here for the next 500 years.
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So unlike most bagel places
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that really just focus on the bagel,
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Russ and Daughters equally
emphasizes the smoked salmon
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in addition to the bagel,
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so that's what makes this
place a real top contender.
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Well, we got the goods, let's go.
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All right.
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So we can see the ratio of salmon to bagel
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is about half salmon and
then half everything else.
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So Russ and Daughters
is all about the fish.
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I don't know how I feel
about all of that salmon.
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I feel like this could
be a little overpowering.
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But we'll see.
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Mmm.
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Whoa.
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It's fantastic.
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So what I really love about this sandwich
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is that the cream cheese is
on either side of the bagel,
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so each bite is the perfect bite,
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and it is a really silky, salty,
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perfectly flavored lox,
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so I love this.
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From Russ and Daughters, we
raced over to the always popular
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Tompkins Square Bagels.
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Tompkins Square Bagels makes
everything fresh on-site.
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Bagels are hand-rolled,
kettle-boiled, and oven-baked daily.
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This is my Saturday tradition.
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It's the best bagel place in the city.
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Perfect, beautiful.
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[Aly] This looks delish.
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Right off the bat, you
can tell a huge difference
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from the last one.
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This is so much more bagel.
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It's huge. It's cakey. It's
really kinda fluffy and soft.
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Listen, I'm done talking about this bagel.
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I'm ready to eat it.
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Three, two, one, go.
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There's a lot of bagel here.
There's a lot of cream cheese.
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There's a lotta lox.
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This is like the hangover bagel joint,
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and you know about hangovers.
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I'm hungover right now.
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[Aly] We weren't the
only ones who liked it.
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It's my first time in the US,
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it's my first time in New York,
and my friend Kristen says,
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"Well, you need to have
breakfast like a real New Yorker.
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Let me take you to a
really good bagel place,"
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and she brought me here.
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[Aly] From Tompkins
Square Bagels, it was time
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to venture further uptown to Ess-a-Bagel,
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known for its variety of
delicious bagels since 1976.
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So my aunt actually started
the business over 40 years ago.
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My uncle had a doughnut shop in Brooklyn,
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and they weren't renewing the lease,
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and he had three kids to support,
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and she said, "Don't worry,
we're gonna find something."
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They combed the papers.
They found a bagel store.
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They said, "Doughnuts,
bagels, they both have holes,
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we'll figure it out."
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Whoa!
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It feels like every bagel place we go to,
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the bagels get consecutively bigger.
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This is definitely the biggest bagel yet.
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This bagel doesn't have a hole.
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It's just kind of a lot of dough,
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maybe a teeny little
pinhole, but it's just dough,
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and I'm not complaining.
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Also, I will note
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that this is the first warm
bagel we have come across,
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which is my No. 1 thing
I look for in a bagel.
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I like when they are
fresh out of the oven,
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straight into the palm of my
hand, straight to the mouth.
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Ready, aim, bagel.
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This one's special.
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The dough is like, it's
not that it's undercooked,
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but it's really doughy.
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Do I have food on my face?
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No.
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In my opinion, this is just
kind of a perfect bagel.
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So this is the real deal,
this is a lived-in bagel.
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[Aly] For our last stop,
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we went all the way up to
Absolute Bagels on 108th Street
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to try the old-fashioned bagels
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famous on the Upper West Side.
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You cannot beat Absolute.
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They're fresh. They have a wide variety.
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Best bagels, best bagels!
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I have never been disappointed
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with any of the bagels I've bought.
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Thank you!
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Thank you so much!
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First impression, I can tell right away
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this is a more firm bagel, it's really...
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[Aly] Dense.
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[Charlie] It's dense, that's the word.
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This is like a workout bagel.
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All right.
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Initial thought: I really
like this cream cheese.
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The cream cheese is good.
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It seems like it's maybe more whipped.
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It's a little lighter than the other ones.
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[Aly] Perfect ratio,
there's not too much lox,
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like, spilling through the back.
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[Charlie] This is why we live in New York,
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is to have bagels and lox like this.
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Hey guys, you don't need
to go anywhere else,
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these are the best bagels in the city.
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I just wanna, like,
smush this in your face.
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Don't do it.
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This is the best day
of my life, hands down.
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After visiting four of the top-ranked
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bagel and lox places in New York City,
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it was finally time to pick our favorite.
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So before we tell you our
all-time favorite bagel
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in New York City,
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first, there's a lot that
goes into a bagel sandwich.
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So we're gonna tell
you our favorite bagel,
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the bread itself,
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our favorite cream cheese,
and our favorite salmon.
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So once we go through all the factors,
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we'll see if we agree
on what's the best bagel
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in New York City.
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Do you think we're gonna agree on stuff?
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We don't agree on anything.
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So first up, our category is the bagel,
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just the bagel itself, you got that?
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Let's get this bread.
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Camera reveal.
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Best bagel.
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OK, should we see each other's?
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Yeah!
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Ahh, yes!
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OK.
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Same taste buds.
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It was warm. It was
doughy. It was delicious.
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Category two, now what
was your favorite fish?
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Probably the most important ingredient
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of a bagel and lox sandwich.
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Arguably.
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Again?
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Ah, I had a feeling.
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The people behind the counter,
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they are students of the fish.
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Cream cheese is the next category
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that we are going to debate.
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True story, cream cheese
is my favorite food,
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I'm excited to talk about it.
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That's disgusting.
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Three, two...oh!
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Once again, Weismans in agreement.
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They pack so much flavor
into that cream cheese.
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It was creamy, rich dairy.
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And now for the moment
you've all been waiting for.
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I'm gonna sing.
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No!
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Our No. 1 pick, the place you send
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your friends and your family
when they visit New York City,
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here it is. The winner is...
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Let's see. Russ and Daughters!
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Yes, of course.
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I like all those exclamation points.
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Of course. I loved it so much,
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I added six exclamation points.
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Russ and Daughters was by
far the best for two reasons:
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One, the fish, absolutely,
the lox is delicious,
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leagues above anything else we tasted,
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and because of the charm.
It's very unique to New York,
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and it's the kind of place
that you would want to show
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an out-of-towner.
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What kind of birds fly over the sea?
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I don't know, what kind?
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Seagulls.
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What kind of birds fly over the bay?
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Bagels!
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