Philly Pretzel Factory

3 months later, no response or rebuttal. That should tell you something.

I just love the pretzel dogs. A hot dog with cheese wrapped in a pretzel; life does not get any better than that.

I get all soft and twisted out of shape when I get one of my cravings coming on, be it for world peace or a warm soft salted pretzel right out of the oven. Luckily I live in an area that is abundant when it comes to filling those soft pretzel cravings and even though I much prefer the salty and savory treats, the warm cinnamon and sugar dusted pretzels are a nice reward, especially when spread with cream cheese.
The soft pretzel has come a long way, some saying the Mayflower actually brought over the recipe, wouldn’t the pilgrims be surprised to watch us dunk our pretzels in cheese sauce or lather them with mustard, although who knows, maybe they spread them with something even better, like a goose, duck or whitefish pâté’ or wrapped in bacon. hmmm…
What I know they didn’t have, for sure were hot dogs, sausages and cheesesteaks wrapped in soft pretzel dough! They also did not have men selling dusty cold salted soft pretzels from the medial strip of a busy eight lane highway, which I was foolish enough to do when we first moved to the burbs of Philly. There are way too many locations around now with hot ovens and pretzels in many shapes and sizes, some coated in garlic, I’ll bet that would be good dipped in butter.
But they also didn’t have world peace during the early 17^th century. I’m still working on that craving, think I’ll buy a soft pretzel or two and work on that a bit more. I wonder how apple butter would be on a cinnamon and sugar soft pretzel?