"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:37:30 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:20:32 -0400, jmcquown >
>> > wrote:
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>> >> Back to the point. Who wants all this pretzel dough stuff? More
>> >> stupid
>> >> marketing. And people will surely buy into it.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I like the trend and crave pretzel bagels. Pretzel pizza sounds
>> > weird, but I'd try it once.
>>
>>
>> It aint pretzel unless it's been dipped in lye water. And few are.
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> You're not going to find many of those around anymore, including
> Manhattan - the place everyone thinks of first when they hear NYC. I
> happen to like soft pretzels and that's what the current pretzeling of
> everything trend is emulating.

I was just looking at recipes last night. The trend for at home now is to
dip in just plain boiling water and that's what I did when I made them.
Apparently lye is only for German pretzels.