Despite what you might have been taught, jews didn't invent bagels, even though they like to think they did. They just like them, as I do also. Leavened bread was thought to have started around 6000BC and I'm sure from then until the 17th century where jews supposedly created bagels someone made it in a circle/ring. For instance, "The earliest known mention of a boiled-then-baked ring-shaped bread can be found in a 13th-century Arabic cookbook, where they are referred to as ka'ak."
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