• 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!