January 3rd, 2008
#413 - Snap
My wife is addicted to the soft pretzels they sell at the mall. We will frequently go there to look for something at one of the stores but wind up only getting a pretzel. I actually never had a soft pretzel before meeting her. Now I like getting them as well.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 am
Exactly once in my life, I have had a soft pretzel that was full of cream cheese.
It was the very last soft pretzel they had on my ferry that night in Puget Sound, and it was on the very last night that the food serving company had a contract with the ferries. I was also, if I recall, on the last ferry of the night.
I always fear that I may have eaten the last cream cheese pretzel ever served in the world.
Has anyone else ever tried one of these? Where can they be found?
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
I wanted to work for Auntie Anne’s in high school just to learn how to make their pretzels. Didn’t happen though.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 am
I like the twisted hard pretzels and I usually break them into pieces. The straight ones are just too easy to eat and the bag is gone before I realize it. At least the twisted ones take time for me because of eating them in pieces.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
lol. reason #413 for me to keep thebookofbiff.com as my homepage.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 am
Ugh, I can’t stand soft pretzels. I don’t know why. They just make me sick. Whenever my friends buy them at the mall, I try not to breathe in, because just the smell will make me sick.
On a side not, pretzels were invented because a monk wanted to get the kids to say their prayers. So he folded dough to look like praying hands and gave them out as prizes.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 am
I wont willfully eat hard pretzels, but ill take lightly salted softies from the mall with some cheese sauce, mmmm
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:30 am
Pretzel with cream cheese? o.o”
Never seen this one here in germany. Well, it seems we’re more puristic about them, as they come mostly served with butter or are served to some piece of roast, slaw or bavarian veal sausage.
@Envious Luna: this is just one of the many myths around the pretzel. An other common one is about backing a bread through which the sun shines three times to avoid a death sentence.
But there is no safe source to any myth up to today.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 am
Lol, i should try that sometimes =p
Speaking of pretzels, i only get those folded ones, don’t find that many store selling those around here.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 am
I don’t think I’ve ever in my life seen a soft pretzel, but my ex got me hooked on Subway in the same way. His father bought the three of us lunch there one morning after a party, and it made me feel so much better that it now has this association in my mind with happiness. Awesome marketing strategy, eh?
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 am
I’ve never had a pretzel stuffed with cream cheese, only the ones that come with a small dipping cup. I have, however, dremt them.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
Lol, this reminds me of an old Peanuts comic where Linus is repeatedly breaking crackers, every time saying, “Rats!” He walks into the living room where Lucy is and sits down on the chair next to her, stating, “I learned something today. No matter how hard you try, you can’t bend a cracker.”
Also, I got a Wii for Christmas. I promptly created a Biff Mii.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Your wife is a good influence.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am
@Painless: German pretzels are the best. When I went to Germany for three weeks, I must have eaten 10-15 of them. And the best part: I could find them anywhere!
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@Sowelu: I’ve seen the cream cheese filled pretzels that you speak of. Granted it’s been a long while since I’ve had one, but they used to sell them in the snack bar at our BJ’s Wholesale club. If you managed to get a fresh one they were oh so good. (I want one now too. Boo hoo.)
I don’t know if they still do, but it’s worth a look. And it was nice in that you didn’t need to be a member to get one since every time I’ve gone there (to the snack bar, which granted wasn’t much, but still…) they never bothered to check to see if I had a membership card. I guess they just didn’t care for that area.
To Biff: Hang in there! You’ll figure it out eventually.
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I love pretzels. Never tried a soft one before, though. I really should get around to it…
The Duck Has Spoken.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
What’s a soft pretzel?
(Really,I don’t know.)
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
One of those giant soft, warm, buttery, salty things you can get at the mall and many other places…they are twisted like pretzels!
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Man, the soft pretzels at my mall are soooooo good.
One of the only good things about the Natick “collection”
That names is a load of balogna.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
man…. you live on the wrong coast, Sowelu. over here on the east coast we have wawa, the best convenience store ever. and they sell cream cheese stuffed pretzels.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I usually really like soft pretzels, but when I went to New York City I bought a pretzel off a street vendor and it tasted like cigarette smoke. Needless to say, it was gross. I have never seen so many smokers in my life as I did in NYC.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
It seems as though all of the Philly soft pretzels I have in Philadelphia don’t taste nearly as good as the Philly pretzels I have at home. And PhyscoDuck, yes you should really try a good soft pretzel.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I’m just noticing, today’s comic’s title is the same as Biff comic #395’s…
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
at our new years eve party, some people were having a competition to see who can shove the most pretzels in their moths without chewing them i think the record was twelve.
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
My old middle school had creme cheese soft pretzels.
They also had the ones with cheese and jalapanos. Those were my absolute favorite.
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
See down south here we have an awesome store in the mall. Its called the Pretzel Twister and they have everything. I’ve had cream cheese filled ones, chili filled, and anything else u could think of. BUT I absolutley hate hard pretzels. I just don’t like the way they taste. But biff needs to read the packages before he goes to work.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
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My mom used to work for Auntie Anne’s brother. Seriously! Homeplace structures, in Round Rock TX (near Austin)
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January 3rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
CHRIS
I’d like to send you comics but can’t find an email address. Should I just send the paper copies to your home?
I’ll check back on this on or you can email me, but I’d like to do/help a/the # 500 landmark comic, so….
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I remember when we got soft pretzels with yogurt cups at school. Man, those were some good elementary school days..
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I used to get up an extra hour and a half early to go out to the pretzel bakery in South Philly to get hot fresh soft pretzels. I’d sell them at the Quarterdeck to NAVSTA Philly to benefit the Navy/Marine Corps Relief Society. I’d usually get two full cases, and I always sold out before they got cold.
Fresh and hot is the only proper way to eat a Phily Soft Pretzel.
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
@ A Person Who Is Too Lazy To Come Up With A Creative Name:
I remember this one too (I was a *HUGE* “Peanuts” fan back in the day…), and Linus was trying to *untie* a pretzel.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:40 am
@ Reynard:
Not only that, but Linus *succeeded*.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
i just love the salt they put on the soft pretzels, sometimes I’ll just eat that
January 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I love pretzels, but i hate those pretzels that have sugar on them, i like them with with cinnamon sugar, but on time at a bowling alley, the put the cheese on my cinnamon pretzel
January 5th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
No cream cheese here, however once here on campus local food vendors were giving away free samples and there was one company that made pretzels filled with jalapeños and cheddar… They were frozen and had to be microwaved - due to our crummy microwave the first one was way too hot and nearly melted my face and the second one was still cold in places. Otherwise they were awesome. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of the company that made them…
January 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
i don’t know where you are, butif you’re in wawa territory, they sell cream cheese filled pretzels. as well as cheddar filled and one with jalepeno cheese. i still think the best prtzels in the world are on the streets of philly. auntie anne’s is great and all that, but only vendors have real soft pretzels.
January 6th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Am I the only one that likes plain and soft pretzels? I swear, I am! In Connecticut, where, I love and live… sometimes… We have also, soft pretzel bites. Little pieces of buttered up tiny bite-sized parts of the pretzel. Also in cinimon/sugar flavor! Yum yum, now I was one.
January 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
A Person Who Is Too Lazy To Come Up With A Creative Name, I have a biff mii to
May 13th, 2008 at 1:41 am
In Disneyland, they have these big fat Mickey-shaped soft pretzels with cream cheese and just alittle powdered sugar inside. omg.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:28 pm
There’s a convenience store in my area called “Wawa” that selled filled soft pretzels, including cream cheese. They’re great.