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"Listen, there's no alternative," Junior's owner Alan Rosen said. "That's why I got upset when I saw these articles about bagels, worrying about their schmear. They can still make a bagel. We cannot make a cheesecake."

Proprietor Becky Rosenthal wants to "reclaim cream cheese as a New York staple food item" alongside things like pizza, hot dogs and, yes, bagels.

The shop's motto, "Cream Cheese Reimagined," clues you in to the main event: cream cheese in all types of flavors in all types of applications.

While the bagel hasn't really entered the disturbing culinary school of thought

Chevra Mehadrin, a small group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis, recently announced a

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