Cutting a bagel into interlinked halves

George Hart shows how to slice a bagel into two linked halves.

The surface of the cut is a Möbius strip with two twists. As Hart remarks, you can also cut a bagel where the cutting surface is a regular (one-twist) Möbius strip:

You can still get cream cheese into the cut, but it doesn't separate into two parts.

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