On location in SC – this is your roving reporter!

Did you know apparently there's a problem with bagels – in that when you fill a bagel the filling oozes through the hole – really?!

I give up – surely the (w)hole point – sorry couldn't resist – of a bagel is that the filling is meant to ooze and arming yourself with a heap of table napkins and licking fingers and getting generally messy is the best part!

Anyway I feel it only right that I should impart information that has recently come to my attention. I give you the alternative – a bialy – it's not a bagel, it's not an English muffin, it's the best of both.

The bialy is Jewish in origin – in particular Polish Ashkenazi. It's very similar to a bagel but a bagel is boiled before it's baked - a bialy is baked. The depression – not hole – is filled with various different ingredients to suit.

Personally I'd describe a bialy as a slightly smaller version of a bagel and I have to say that the thought of a cooked onion filling in the “depression” would definitely lift my spirits!

My quest is to see whether we can find them in the UK – I'm on the case.