• Obi@sopuli.xyz
          5·
          9 months ago

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

          • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
            3·
            9 months 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·
              9 months ago

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

            • klemptor@lemmy.ml
              2·
              9 months 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·
              9 months 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·
          9 months 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·
      9 months ago

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