Pretzels. What's the bleedin' point?

[Justin Cyder]

Hmm, I naively thought these would be good for a bit of surreptitious weekend snacking. Nice attractive looking baked goodness with big chunks of crystalline salt glistening in every one.

And yet I find that if you were some kind of sadistic food scientist out to invent a double whammy snack that simultaneously sucked all the moisture out of your mouth & raised your blood pressure beyond survivable levels, the Pretzel is what you'd come up with.

I've had dentist's suction pipes that don't dry your mouth out anywhere near as efficiently as a couple of pretzels.

Never again. From now on I'm sticking to pork scratchings served in a bowl of salt.

[dudleybloke]

have you tried the ones coated in dark chocolate?
seriously addictive!

[Changedmyname]

I know they are horrid I never liked them. a german thing I think.

[Ultuous]

You're obviously eating them wrongly... They HAVE to be washed down with copious amounts of beer to be experienced correctly!

[Seti]

Ultuous said:

You're obviously eating them wrongly... They HAVE to be washed down with copious amounts of beer to be experienced correctly!

He's right - served free in bars covered with salt to make you drink more.

Works well!

[Caulkhead]

Pretzels as in the big, soft doughy real thing or pretzels as in the crunchy little things we get here?

[Justin Cyder]

Caulkhead said:

Pretzels as in the big, soft doughy real thing or pretzels as in the crunchy little things we get here?

You mean there's a good kind?

[Slink]

oh yes, the soft pretzel sort are effing good.

when ever I go to bluewater I always get a cinnamon one, an its a soft doughy goodness covered in cinnamon sugar.

[craigjm]

Caulkhead said:

Pretzels as in the big, soft doughy real thing or pretzels as in the crunchy little things we get here?

Most people have probably never tried the large soft doughy ones you get from good German bakeries and are talking about the hard little things from America.

[CharlieCrocodile]

Slink said:

oh yes, the soft pretzel sort are effing good.

when ever I go to bluewater I always get a cinnamon one, an its a soft doughy goodness covered in cinnamon sugar.

The ones at Bluewater are full of win!

[Monty Zoomer]

It hadn't occurred to me that there might be different kinds of pretzels, I've only ever tried the small, hard ones from packets, but after reading this thread I've looked on Wikipedia and read up on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel

I'm definitely going to try some of the nice ones...

[Marf]

dudleybloke said:

have you tried the ones coated in dark chocolate?
seriously addictive!

[craigjm]

Monty Zoomer said:

It hadn't occurred to me that there might be different kinds of pretzels, I've only ever tried the small, hard ones from packets, but after reading this thread I've looked on Wikipedia and read up on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel

I'm definitely going to try some of the nice ones...

If you ever get to London the best soft ones I've had outside of Germany come from Herman Ze German by Charing Cross Station

[m3jappa]

I only just found out that the big soft ones are different to the nasty little salty things I've tried before.

I now see why they are so popular! Very nice indeed !

[Justin Cyder]

I may have acted in...haste.

However, I am talking about the little bullets in a bag from Tesco. Hmm, maybe I'll wind up the local squirrels with them. Get my own back for the state of my fking flower beds.

[CAPP0]

Mix them with peanuts

[Puggit]

craigjm said:

Monty Zoomer said:

It hadn't occurred to me that there might be different kinds of pretzels, I've only ever tried the small, hard ones from packets, but after reading this thread I've looked on Wikipedia and read up on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel

I'm definitely going to try some of the nice ones...

If you ever get to London the best soft ones I've had outside of Germany come from Herman Ze German by Charing Cross Station

Interesting - I've walked past it so many times and not gone in because of the stupid name!

[Rude Girl]

Eating pretzels from a street vendor was one of my 'must do' experiences in New York. I spat it out -vile desiccating stuff

[kiteless]

I never saw the point of pretzels myself, either.

Until my local pub started selling these beauties:



They are dynamite

[CAPP0]

kiteless said:

I never saw the point of pretzels myself, either.

Until my local pub started selling these beauties:



They are dynamite

I have just bought a box of those from Amazon!