Lox! Must have lox!

[avram]

I’ve suddenly got a craving. I want a bagel (pumpernickel, probably) with cream cheese and lox. Not that wussy nova stuff you folks out in the provinces have been tricked into calling lox, but the real stuff, belly lox, brine-cured and salty, almost impossible to find outside NYC, oh god, want it now, none of the places I know where to buy it are open late, there’s probably not a place on the planet open right this second where I could buy some, arg.