"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>>> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:37:30 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
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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.
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>>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Where do you think pretels originated? Are you eating Japanese pretzels?

I know where they originated but we have Americanized pretzels here. Where
do you think the little crisp ones came from? Sweden?