If you haven't heard of the chaos that is New Jersey Twitter, allow me to give you some context. @NJGov is the official Twitter account of the Garden State—verified checkmark and all. Its profile photo is Baby Yoda holding New Jersey and the tweets are very funny, albeit somewhat provocative. Example: The account tweeted out a bold statement yesterday, calling New Jersey the bagel capital of the world...on National Bagel Day.

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People subsequently freaked out. Some agreed, some were mad. All I have to say to the latter group is if you're mad, stay mad. For the sake of journalistic integrity, let me be transparent. I am a Jersey girl born and raised—besides those couple years in Florida, but I digress. I have an affinity, nay, a subconscious, magnetic attraction to New Jersey bagels over any other bagel ever.

What @NJGov said is right, but don't just take my word for it.

"NYC will always be the bagel capital of the world," one user wrote, quickly being hit with the clap back "Sounds like something an Ohio native living in NYC would say," from another user. Y-I-K-E-S.

The showdown almost exclusively became a New Jersey-versus-New York situation and the New York Police Department even gave adding their two cents. "New Jersey is cancelled," the NYPD Twitter replied to the original tweet. @NJGov shut them down with a curt, "stick to donuts." I laughed out loud.

Those who weren't fighting were using the Twitter replies as a place to announce their go-to bagel order or their favorite bagel shop. Barely anyone fought about the Taylor ham versus pork roll debate. BTW, pork roll wins—just saying!

In conclusion, people spent National Bagel Day fighting over which state makes the best bagels and all this bagel talk is making me need a bacon, egg, and cheese on an everything with salt-pepper-ketchup STAT.

Even though New Jersey does have the best bagels, according to me, I really think NJ and NY should stop the arguing and band together against people that put kiwi on pizza. Can't we all just get along?