• @marco@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    142 years ago

    Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.

        • JokeDeity
          link
          fedilink
          32 years ago

          Looks delicious but not overly different from what I’m used to.

          • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            52 years ago

            My guess is they think you only have the small crunchy ones in the US like these:

            • @seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
              link
              fedilink
              32 years ago

              To be fair, when people in the US think of a “pretzel”, those are the ones they think of. You can buy big bags of those in any supermarket. If you want to get a big, bready pretzel, you have to go to a restaurant.

              • @klemptor@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                22 years ago

                Here in Philly soft pretzels are everywhere, they’re a staple. I think usually those little hard ones are just a snack for kids?

              • @foreverandaday@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                12 years ago

                Americans usually label the small crunchy ones as pretzels and the big real ones as “soft pretzels” when the former is (apparently) an abomination

          • @eliasp@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            22 years ago

            A Brezel has to be eaten fresh. Once it’s older than 30 minutes it gets stale and stops being a proper Brezel!

      • @marco@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        02 years ago

        If you get the chance of eating a fresh German pretzel, please compare it to American “Soft pretzels” :)