On Friday, October 3, 2014 1:20:32 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
> Surely (hopefully) it's like the cupcake craze.
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> Pretzel buns. Pretzel rolls. Even some ridiculous looking ad for a
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> chain serving pretzel dough pizza. (Topped with some sort of cheddar
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> cheese sauce that looks like it comes out of a can for 50¢ ball-park
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> nachos.)
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> When I turn on the TV, it appears the US has suddenly gone crazy for
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> preztel dough everything. WTF?
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> I like pretzels as an occasional snack. I've eaten hot doughy pretzels,
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> too. Delicious! I tried to make soft pretzels from scratch once. I
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> failed. I didn't realize at the time they are like bagels; they need to
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> be boiled before they're baked. (I was about 17 at the time.) I didn't
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> have a recipe, I just tried to cobble one together based on bread dough.
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> I wound up with crispy baked pretzels. :-D
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> Back to the point. Who wants all this pretzel dough stuff? More stupid
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> marketing. And people will surely buy into it.
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> Jill

And don't forget some GLUTEN-FREE pretzels.
I did finally locate a box of gluten at my health food store. Last one on the shelf. GWTW maybe? She was kind of happy to hear that the big markets aren't stocking it.