My favorite - plain, sesame seed or poppy seed - cream cheese with lox (smoked salmon) When I went to Alaska (on a cruise ship) I discovered it on the menu and had it every day with the thinest slivers of sliced onions but I will also eat them with just the palin cream cheese
Second favorite - cinnamon raisin - just butter melted into a hot bagel
In Montreal they had the real bagels - boiled and baked in wood-burning ovens. Turns out I live around the corner from one that does the same. I love rolled by just for the wonderful aroma in the air. If I go by and they have fresh cinnamon raisinn still warm from the oven I will buy and eat it on the run with nothing on it
Mass produced just aren't the same