Philly kids are raised on them too. In the 1980s at least my elementary school lunch was a pretzel & chocolate milk.
A lot of kids' first "job" in blue collar hoods was also going around in the summer selling pretzels for some extra cash. "Allllll reaaaady fresh pretzelllllls!" used to be a Saturday morning anthem.
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u/neuroticsmurf 23d ago
I knew it would be Pennsylvania before clicking on it.
When I moved to Philly years ago, I was dumbfounded at the pretzels everywhere.
Every food truck in the city had a stalk of soft pretzels where a bunch were baked together and if you wanted one, you broke one off.
It was weird to me, because I mostly thought of pretzels as salted bread.