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          My guess is they think you only have the small crunchy ones in the US like these:

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            To be fair, when people in the US think of a “pretzel”, those are the ones they think of. You can buy big bags of those in any supermarket. If you want to get a big, bready pretzel, you have to go to a restaurant.

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              A restaurant? What about your local bakery? Laugengebäck is amazing, you should eat more of it!

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              Here in Philly soft pretzels are everywhere, they’re a staple. I think usually those little hard ones are just a snack for kids?

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              Americans usually label the small crunchy ones as pretzels and the big real ones as “soft pretzels” when the former is (apparently) an abomination

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          A Brezel has to be eaten fresh. Once it’s older than 30 minutes it gets stale and stops being a proper Brezel!

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      If you get the chance of eating a fresh German pretzel, please compare it to American “Soft pretzels” :)