Vermont Bakery Myer’s Mysteriously Has the Same Logo as St-Viateur Bagel | Eater Montreal

"I noticed a Burlington, Vermont bakery apparently using a cartoon bagel mascot that looks suspiciously similar to St-Viateur Bagel’s: a photo that appears to be from outside Myer’s shows a bagel character with slightly less webbed fingers, a few more sesame seeds, and an odd gaze toward its own crotch compared with St-Viateur’s all-pupils mascot. Myer’s opened in 1996, which prompted questions about who used the design first, and an update notes that a St-Viateur owner told Eater a previous owner of Myer’s had worked at St-Viateur but suggested Myer’s probably shouldn’t be using the cartoon figure. I also noted the article’s other possibilities — that St-Viateur may have given permission, that the drawing could be in the public domain, or that Myer’s simply borrowed it — but the photographed likeness is striking." - Tim Forster