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Listen, everyone has their favorite, you know, coffee shops, diners, summer ice cream parlor, all together though. They make up the very best of New Jersey. And we have a bagel shop that will maybe you can add to your list. Tony Caputo is their photo journalist or both a touch in this morning visiting the bagel page. You are already eating a bagel, Tony all everything. Every time I never ate an all everything bagel until my wife introduced me to them. A couple of years ago, she brought one home. I'm like, what's this? All everything loved it? That's all I eat. Now, Mohammad Abdel Jabbar is the owner of bagel pantry here in the touch. We've known Mohammed for a while. Now, we were back here in 21 during the great cream cheese depression when you couldn't get cream cheese. We talked to you about that. Things are back to normal. Now you got a mirror making up the bagels in the back. What is it about bagels that people love so much? All we hear is the carbs and oh, they're going to do this to us and do that to us. But people come and eat them all. What are their favorite ones? What's their favorite, favorite? And cinnamon raisin, everything, everything. Those three you sell the most of those. Is it usually just the bagel with some cream cheese or do people like it as a sandwich as well? That's a jersey thing. Right. Now, what do they come in and tell you? And what do you have on the board out there? I didn't know if you have pork roll or do you have pork roll? We have bacon. We have, I have also deli meat. We have tuna, we have cream cheeses, different type of, we have a little bit of everything is made at home. We've been watching you guys work and I mean, it's been non stop since you opened up here. You opened at what 5:05 a.m. people are walking in getting bagels. How many bagels are you making in the morning? And you do this every morning, approximately 505 100 a day each morning? Probably 1000 1000. They sell them all gone all day. I mean, that's amazing. Amir has been churning them out over here making these bagels. You can see some of that video on my social this morning and again, it has just been something else and watching them make them and then watching them kind of spin in that oven. What's with that oven? I mean, what are we talking here? You got like three different shells in there, right. Five different shells. Five different shes Mohammed, great stuff. Bagel pantry here in the so popular the doors open and five people were already walking in. We'll check out some of the different sandwiches and style that you make next hour. Sure sounds good. Mohammad Abdel Jabbar. Here in Mtu bagel pantry, the all everything. I got my fingers all over this one because it's mine. All right. We'll send it back to you. It's the best in New Jersey. Uh, news. 12 New Jersey ladies to get it back to you. The question is, what cream cheese will he put on? He's just thinking that, is he a butter kind of guy? Oh, that's a good question.

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News 12’s Tony Caputo visited Bagel Pantry in Metuchen Tuesday for The Best of New Jersey.  

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