New York deli culture gets its own emoji: a round bagel topped with a smear of cream cheese, the classic breakfast and brunch order. It's called on for that specific combination of chewy bread and a good schmear.
What 🥯 means
A round dough-based baked snack with a hole in between, horizontally sliced, thus revealing a white-layer of filling in between. The 🥯 Bagel emoji can signify bakery, snacks, festive foods and breakfast.
How and when to use it
- While sharing a picture of your on-the-go breakfast or a regular lazy day breakfast, anything composed of bagels, you can use 🥯 in those post/story captions or even within text messages while responding to "What's cooking ?".
- Use 🥯 while commenting on yummy bagel posts or even while posting or reposting anything related to it; it can be a creative bagel post that you came across while scrolling through your feed or a fancy bagel that you tried baking, etc.
- If you're setting up a food/snack stall or you're selling these goodies online, etc, and you're sharing a social media post or story for the same, then you must use 🥯 in all such contexts.
- If you're sharing a post for any 'Bagel Festival', then 🥯 is a mandate.
- Just a 🥯 also refers to an ordinary, mundane and mediocre person or thing, so, you can use this emoji in such frameworks too. (Just a bagel, incase there was any confusion).
Other Names
- 🥯 Beigel
- 🥯 Baked Snack
- 🥯 Doughnut (not exactly, but kinda works)
- 🥯 Bakery
- 🥯 Savory
- 🥯 Filled Bagel
- 🥯 Snacks
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-prepared
- Codepoints
U+1F96F- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:bagel:- Keywords
- bagel, bakery, bread, breakfast, schmear
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥯 Bagel or 🆚 VS Button?
Runs with a crowd
🥯 keeps company in brown emojis and food emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.