Photo: "Fairmount Bagels", by Flickr user kathyylchan

Faimount bagels are going where no Montreal darling has gone before

Rumours were spreading around the Mile-End like butter on a hot poppyseed bagel that Fairmount Bagels were up to something special. My inside source told me that they were going "intergalactic", and cryptically confided that he had personally witnessed two dozen "space bagels" being made. It seemed like the stuff of urban legend, but now the news is in: NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, a Montrealer by birth and in his heart, is breaking out the honey-boiled classics in space. My source was right: Chamitoff is related to the bakery's owner, and somehow convinced Ground Control to let him share a batch of sesame goodness around the International Space Station. But there were some limitations: his cousin wouldn't let him take up his favourites, the notoriously stinky garlic bagels. "They would have stunk up the whole place," she said. Amen to that!