格鲁布街杰森·塔布（Jason Turbow）在周三发表了一个漫长而有趣的故事“纽约百吉饼联盟如何战斗并击败 - 黑手党接管。”There is quite a bit about the mob, but really it’s a history of the rise and fall of Local 338, New York City’s union of bagel-makers, and how it resisted both capitalist oppression and the mob, only to be done in by machine-made bagels. (“So dire were [working] conditions,” Turbow writes, “that they even inspired a Yiddish curse:Lig in der erd un bak beygl。‘Lay in the ground and bake bagels.’ (Alternatively translated: ‘Go to hell and bake bagels.’)”) Both Turbow’s grandfather and great-grandfather were members of the union—his great-grandfather was, in fact, one of the founders—so he has more than a casual interest in the story. And if you’re a bagel purist, it will make you despise Lender’s even more than you already do.
