Einstein Bros. Bagels

I had some high bagel hopes for my trip to EBB. I've had the bagels as a work treat and whatnot, but I'd never actually been in myself.
I often long for the amazing bagel sandwiches I used to get in high school. I'd walk over to Wild Oats, select my bagel and take it to the deli counter to get a tasty sammich created. They were such a fancy lunch for me back then. So I wanted to see how EBB stacked up.
It didn't really make my dreams come true.
I got the Turkey BAT (bacon, avocado, tomato) and an iced coffee.

First of all, to those that sell iced coffee, sell flavors for your iced coffees. Plain iced coffee tastes like dirt and sugar doesn't dissolve all that well in cold water. I'm sure there's some coffee physics that I don't quite understand about how that works but that's my take on it.
I added some milk and sugar to my coffee but it was still terrible. Not something I would want to drink even if it was free, let alone if I'd just paid for it.
I will say that the iced coffee from McDonald's is pretty excellent. I got the hazelnut. It was perfect. $1.79 for a medium...according to the commercial. I want to try the vanilla next!

Next came the bagel. I got an Everything bagel...aside from it being too salty for some reason, it was nice and squishy. The rest was not so great. The first few bites were alright but then I got in to the exciting layers of avocado and bacon! Well, it was not exciting. I actually scraped off some of the avocado & bacon. SCRAPED OFF...AVOCADO & BACON! Unacceptable. The avocado had no flavor at all. It was weird icky mush. The bacon just tasted...strange. I don't feel comfortable eating strange meats. Their chip selection was sort of lacking as well. Darnit.
The pickle wrapped up with my sandwich was a nice treat to find though! Yum!

So...the high point of my meal was the pickle. Not a very good deal for me. I think I'll stick to just the regular bagels from EBB in the future. Perhaps I'll give the breakfast sandwiches a try but I need time. I'm just not ready to go back yet.
The cashiers were very friendly though and while I was there I heard this older gentleman giving one of them a hard time, he said "You have an honest face....the rest of you looks like a liar, but your face is honest." HA!!