Don't get me wrong, I love raisins. I have them in my morning oa... porridge, and love oatmeal raisin cookies. Cinnamon's good too, in the appropriate place. But I'm a bagel purist. I grew up in a Jewish household in the 60's and 70's, long before sweet bagels were a thing (blueberry? Really? THIS IS NOT A MUFFIN!!).
Bagels, to me, are a basic bread, but they can be savory (toasted onion, the aforementioned poppyseed, sesame, and I'd KILL for a good egg bagel - nobody around here carries them, I've not seen one in nearly 20 years).
Toasted with a shmear of cream cheese and some thin sliced nova lox, they are the perfect food, handed down from god to Moses (the stone tablets were just there to hold the bagels...). Sweet does not hold up well under Nova lox.
Although I was fond of the Bialy bagels that a local place had in the 80's when I was in college - seemed to be an "everything" bagel, poppyseeds, sesame seeds, onions, kosher salt, and a few other things I was never clear on but they were delicious (a bit messy in the toaster, though).
So that's my bagel story. Sorry to have hijacked the last day of the week...