# Pretzels banned from White House **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219 "2017-08-10T03:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/1 "2017-08-10T03:59:23Z")
Or so says the answer on a game show (which is why it’s here instead of GQ). They claimed that it is one of the things you are not allowed to bring on a White House tour. If so, why!? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/2 "2017-08-10T04:04:22Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Or so says the answer on a game show (which is why it’s here instead of GQ). They claimed that it is one of the things you are not allowed to bring on a White House tour. If so, why!? Pretzels are devious. One almost got W, iirc. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/3 "2017-08-10T04:04:44Z")
Well, Dubya [choked on one](http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/14/news/mn-22490) once… maybe it’s a legacy ban. Shakes tiny fist of impotent rage. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/4 "2017-08-10T04:06:13Z")
W almost choked to death on one. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/5 "2017-08-10T04:06:26Z")
Is this one of those things like the “dumb laws” lists, where it’s actually all food that isn’t allowed? Edit: [Food is not allowed.](https://www.nps.gov/whho/planyourvisit/the-white-house-tour.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/6 "2017-08-10T04:39:33Z")
Ok, then. I did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/7 "2017-08-10T04:45:17Z")
Yeah if it had anything to do with Ol’ Dubya then they wouldn’t allow shoes either, he almost got taken out by a couple of those too. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/8 "2017-08-10T05:18:00Z")
I don’t think any visitor to be so gauche as to amble along chewing a sandwich, or swigging from a bottle in a brown bag; yet I would also have considered a ban on these objects unneeded to be stated: _ **Guns, ammunition, fireworks, electric stun guns, mace, martial arts weapons/devices, toy weapons, or knives or any kind** _ ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/9 "2017-08-10T17:38:07Z")
But I would have thought pretzels would be welcome in the present administration’s White House. They are twisted, salty, and of German origin. ---
**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 10, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pretzels-banned-from-white-house/793219/10 "2017-08-10T18:24:09Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > I don’t think any visitor to be so gauche as to amble along chewing a sandwich, or swigging from a bottle in a brown bag; SNIP You should come to the US and see the truth then.