Gold Rush Coffee Co — Restaurant in McMinnville

Pizza Bagel Abomination.

So I grew up in NY as a kid in the 90s, been in Oregon the last 20 years. I've been on the hunt for good sandwiches, bagels and pizza ever since.

Driving by I saw "pizza bagel" advertised and was like "hell yeah" - I grew up eating these for lunch with a Stewart's soda. Absolute core childhood memory.

So am I biased? Yes. Was this "pizza bagel" an abomination beyond redemption despite my bias?... Also yes.

We also got a breakfast sandwich with "croissant bread" which I'll roast here, too. But this was actually somewhat edible.

A pizza bagel is a bagel cut in half and prepared open faced with sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Like frozen Bagel Bites at the grocery store. Google it - it is uniformly this, there are no alternative preparations I could find.

So we receive the "pizza bagel" in a bag, closed face. I was confused thinking they sandwiched it all together. Odd but okay. So we take off, my wife is driving, and I open it up to see what's inside of it... Nothing. Contained in the bag is cream cheese and a knife. At this point I can't wrap my brain around what's happening.

When we get to our errand destination I open it up and see it's NOT a pizza bagel as the world knows it. It's a plain, pizza flavored bagel. This has the cheese and pepperoni baked into it, and I'm supposed to put cream cheese on this monstrosity like a normal bagel.

If you're personally offended by what I just wrote, don't feel bad, I am too completely and utterly appalled. But maybe they know something we don't. Just because I never heard of it doesn't mean I know "the right way." So we prepare this with cream cheese and with open minds and hopeful hearts we bite... And oh my god this was the worst thing I've tasted that was intentionally prepared.

First of all it's not even toasted. It's warmed up so it isn't cold, but it's not a toasted bagel. Secondly, there's some kind of fake pizza sauce flavor baked into this circular nightmare dough that tastes like those pizza combos snacks with a distinct chemical after taste.

Third and most important, the pepperoni is spicy. Spicy pepperoni and CREAM CHEESE don't go together! At all! Like you don't put cheese on a salmon fillet or a steak. You don't put cream cheese on pizza and you certainly don't put cream cheese charcuterie meats.

So this pizza bagel isn't even a pizza bagel. It's pizza flavored, and badly at that. It's not toasted and comes with cream cheese. This is such a culinary abomination I expect Gordon Ramsay to do a TV show swearing about it any day now.

We also wondered what a breakfast sandwich with "croissant bread" was so we got a ham version to try. This was at least consumed, whereas the absolute antichrist pizza bagel was not edible.

Opening the breakfast sandwich was surprising and answered as many questions as it raised. It was square. The bread was cut like sandwich bread but was croissant-like. I don't understand why this exists when croissants are like, just fine on their own. I've never heard of "croissant bread" in my life, and yes I've been to France. And while I'm upset about this on behalf of all of France and French cooking, it was by far the least offensive part of this sandwich.

The problem lies in both taste and texture. I would argue texture is even more important than flavor most of the time. (Unless it's that pizza bagel...) The texture is wrong here. The bottom layer of bread has no sauce I could detect and is layered with "water ham" slices. You know the ham cold cuts so cheap they're basically ham mush reconstituted with hot water into a brick? Yeah, that's the bottom layer. I'm at the text limit, but the texture it gives is "fleshy." It feels like what I'd imagine chomping into somebody's arm feels like. There's no particular flavor here, the sandwich is homogeneously white-ish and that's exactly what it tastes like. Undersalted? Yes. But it is in desperate need of some flavor at all, mayo or hot sauce or anything.

I rate this 10/10 for bad food with endless roasting and foodie rage...

Gold Rush Coffee Co is a drive-through coffee place. I drove into the Gold Rush Coffee Co and there was a line of 2 cars in front of me. It didn't take whoever was working there very long to take care of the cars in front of me. I pulled up to the window and was greeted by a nice young lady and I said hi in return. I was undecided if I wanted coffee or Gold Rushes real Strawberry Lemonade. I decided I would get their Strawberry Lemonade and gave my money to the young lady working there and I made sure to put a dollar in the tip cup. As I pulled away from the Gold Rush Coffee Co, I took my first sip of my real Strawberry Lemonade and boy was it good! I'll definitely be coming back here. Strawberry is my favorite flavor. If you find yourself in McMinnville, Oregon stop off at the Gold Rush Coffee Co. And wet your whistle with their real Strawberry lemonade or even try their coffee. Either way, you...

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