Pizza bagel

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A pizza bagel is a bread product traditionally topped with pizza toppings. The simple tomato sauce and cheese pizza bagel is the most common, though a layer of cream cheese sometimes is used as a base under the tomato sauce and cheese. Toppings can vary as widely as pizza toppings can.

A bagel is cut in two and each side is covered with tomato sauce, cheese, and other toppings. The pizza bagel is then placed through a conveyor toaster or in an oven to melt the cheese and warm the bagel. The dish is usually served open-faced. A commercial product, Bagel Bites, is sold as platters of smaller frozen pizza bagels with a variety of toppings.

Modernized by Great Canadian Bagel in the early 1990s' when Andrew Shopsowitz asked his father if he could put pizza on a bagel.