• marco@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

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

          • Obi
            5·
            1 year ago

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

            • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
              3·
              1 year 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.

              • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
                5·
                1 year ago

                A restaurant? What about your local bakery? Laugengebäck is amazing, you should eat more of it!

              • klemptor@lemmy.ml
                2·
                1 year 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
                1·
                1 year 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
            2·
            1 year 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.orgEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

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