Bagels, a definition

Bagels: hot, warm, and tasty, taken from the oven and laid out in the sun; cold, stiff, and bland, hidden in cupboards wafting to be eaten. A doughnut-shape of flour and water baked till hard. A torus of fruit and grain cooked in an oven. A breakfast of kings, lunch of paupers, and dinner of students in one delectable treat. Whether guillotined in half, or eaten whole; with cream cheese or lox; freshly baked or a few days stale it matters not. A physical representation of S1xS1, a subset of R3, a wonder for the mind both mathematical of gastronomical. Oh bagel! it was for you they said: “less is more.”