If you love Flamin Hot Cheetos, enjoy eating bagels and live in the Buffalo area of New York, you have a ten year old to thank. A young girl standing outside the BreadHive Co-Operative Bakery suggested putting the snack on top of a bagel to the bakery's owners. Allison Ewing took her up on her suggestion, creating the first Flamin Hot Bagels.
The spicy bread is made by crushing up a bag of the raucously red Flamin Hot Cheetos and dipping ready-to-bake bagels in them. This replaces BreadHive's standard toppings like organic garlic. The cheesy crumbs will stay crispy for a while, and if the texture needs to be adjusted they can become crisp again by reheating.
Spicy Topping Bagels
BreadHive Co-Operative Bakery's Newest Flavor Uses Flamin Hot Cheetos
Trend Themes
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Spicy Crossover Foods — Mixing spicy snack foods with traditional foods is a disruptive innovation opportunity for creative culinary professionals.
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Customer-driven Flavor Innovation — Actively seeking out and leveraging customer feedback for new, unique flavor profiles is a disruptive innovation opportunity for food businesses.
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Novel Toppings — Incorporating new, innovative toppings for existing foods can be a disruptive innovation opportunity for food businesses.
Industry Implications
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Baked Goods — The bakery industry can harness the disruptive innovation opportunity presented by BreadHive Co-Operative's Flamin Hot Bagels to create unique new products.
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Snack Foods — Snack food manufacturers can innovate by developing new snack foods inspired by BreadHive Co-Operative's Flamin Hot Bagels.
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Street Food — Street food vendors can take advantage of the disruptive innovation opportunities presented by BreadHive Co-Operative's Flamin Hot Bagels to create new and exciting offerings for their customers.