> It's bagel, not beigel I think you'll find that it's often spelled beigel on the other side of the ocean, as per example of the UK's most famous Jewish baker

> It's bagel, not beigel I think you'll find that it's often spelled beigel on the other side of the ocean, as per example of the UK's most famous Jewish bakery [1]. The cockney Yiddish community in London's East End who introduced beigel's pronounced them with a strong I (pasekh tzvey yudn) rather than an EY (tzvey yudn), and so the word was transliterated as bEIgel as per a German orthography (as in Eisenhower). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beigel_Bake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beigel_Bake > I'm reasonably certain that British bagels are identical to American bagels. Even despite everything I just said about simplicity, British beigels lack the malt commonly used in American 'bagels', and the honey used in Montreal ones. So no, they are categorically not identical to American 'bagels'. So now you know.