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3rd approach (aka the Auntie Annes’s method): Untie the whole thing, wrap it around a hot dog and go to town with some ketchup
I never see big pretzels here in Australia, but when I have little pretzels I nibble off the lobes and the underhang before crunching the rest
I got from the bottom up
Someone I posed this question to said that whether you eat the west or the east lobes/nodes first is probably dependent on whether you’re left or right handed. So a better nomenclature might be south vs. north.
Okay but what is the proper condiment for a pretzel? Cheese? Mustard? Plain?
Assuming your run of the mill salted pretzel, I default to nothing and occasionally mustard.
Yes.
(but I prefer mustard, and tearing off pieces to dip in the mustard from the outside in)
I usually start from the underhang, then the nubbins, and then each lobe.
I started with west lobe