Okay, so I promise this is the last ‘food statistics’ post for the year (well, until I find a flabbergasting article about the durability of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich in urban areas containing more than four libraries or some such).

You might remember that a couple of weeks back, NotForTourists posted this doughtastic list of the best bagel shops in London and New York. You’d have to be a wheat and/or yeast intolerant fool to not like a good old circular bread roll of Jewish origin, but it has to be said that the low point of the experience is cutting the damn thing. Well, that and splitting your poor chapped lips when trying to cram the heaving-with-filling wedge in your mouth (but I fear that might just be me..)

Anyway, it turns out this mild pestilence that usually results in a wonky sandwich is in fact A NATIONAL PROBLEM (for Americans, all I could find in the way of ‘dangerous food statistics’ for the British is the fact that our most deadly biscuit is that shortbreaddy villain, the Custard Cream). The Wall Street Journal reports that 1,979 people ended up in emergency rooms with BRI (bagel related injuries) in 2008. To help save the nation they have created this rather staid little video, where different types of bagel cutter are put to the test.