# My wife likes them long, thick and hard **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677 "2018-08-15T18:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/21 "2018-08-15T21:52:06Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > So, you’re saying you’ve “been into bagels”? 😉 Ever had a nice, soft warm salt bagel with a long hard pretzel on a muggy, humid day? Maybe open a can of good tuna on the side? Mmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/22 "2018-08-15T22:01:08Z")
I take em both ways: Soft: Right out of the oven at a Philly Pretzel Factory, with plenty of salt. Hard: Herr’s Extra Thin. Neither available in Arizona… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/23 "2018-08-15T23:04:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If we’re talkin’ pretzels here,… I was thinking licorice. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/24 "2018-08-16T00:31:33Z")
It’s not about size, it’s about flavor. :o Right?? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/25 "2018-08-16T02:19:13Z")
I was thinking pasta. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/26 "2018-08-16T02:50:53Z")
I don’t care as long as it’s smeared with something delicious. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/27 "2018-08-16T02:50:58Z")
Snyder’s Hard Soughdough pretzels that are big and twisted are the best of all time [http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/sourdough-pretzels/sourdough-hard-pretzels.html](http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/sourdough-pretzels/sourdough-hard-pretzels.html) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/28 "2018-08-16T03:32:19Z")
Thin, hard, and twisted (or the stick variety is also all right.) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/29 "2018-08-16T14:44:19Z")
Gimme some o that [pretzel crack!](http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/pretzel-pieces/honey-mustard-and-onion.html) So I guess I like em broken. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/30 "2018-08-16T16:26:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What else would we be talking about? :dubious: Uhhhhh … submarines? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/31 "2018-08-16T16:46:48Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Soft and twisted. Philly style with some mustard. This. When I was in grade school in Philly in the 40s, there was a store across the street from the school that sold them 4 for a nickel. They were on a strip and each one was fairly small. Still 4 of them was a fair snack. Always with mustard. My aunt who grew up in the 30s told me they were a penny a piece before the war. I also like the hard rods. And the small sticks. And any other form. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/32 "2018-08-16T18:48:09Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Snyder’s Hard Soughdough pretzels that are big and twisted are the best of all time > [http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/sourdough-pretzels/sourdough-hard-pretzels.html](http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/sourdough-pretzels/sourdough-hard-pretzels.html) I’m completely biolar about this. I adore the abovementioned Snyders. Even bettah when you have some Pub Cheese spread to dip them into. On the OTHER hand, since I’m a Philly native, a soft twisted pretzel with a bit of Goulden’s Spicy Brown is kind of heavenly. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/33 "2018-08-16T20:46:36Z")
To me a normal hard pretzel pretty much looks exactly like a normal soft pretzel, except it is hard. I like dipping the hard ones in ice cream. I only like salt or a little mustard on the soft ones. The rest of my family has to have cream cheese. And as some others have said, to me the soft and hard are not in competition. ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/34 "2018-08-16T23:36:15Z")
Not a fan of baguette or ciabatta. I like long, soft eclairs and long johns (not that long john.) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/35 "2018-08-17T03:20:21Z")
I prefer them soft and twisted, but they must be salty either way. Cinnamon-sugar, etc. are an abomination unto gawd. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/36 "2018-08-17T03:44:57Z")
Trader Joe’s carries short, hard, dark pretzels (pumpernickel?). Perfect with beer, so I take 'em to my church’s Men’s Group (where half the guys are home-brewers). Pretzels and fresh-brewed espresso stout… mmmm… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/37 "2018-08-17T08:24:49Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Snyder’s Hard Soughdough pretzels that are big and twisted are the best of all time > [http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/sourdough-pretzels/sourdough-hard-pretzels.html](http://www.snydersofhanover.com/products/sourdough-pretzels/sourdough-hard-pretzels.html) Disagree about “the best of all time.” Sourdough is supposed to have two properties in order to be called “sourdough.” It has to be sour, and it has to be doughy. Hard sourdough by definition is a contradiction in existential characteristics. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/38 "2018-08-17T10:21:08Z")
The way they make them at the german bakery. Hard crust, soft on the inside, with salt on it. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677/39 "2018-08-17T14:40:08Z")
Warm and soft with spicy mustard. Especially on a crisp, cool morning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-likes-them-long-thick-and-hard/819677.md?page=1)