If your anything like me, when you get one of those big Soft Pretzels, you get it salted vs unsalted. I am not sure why I get the salted, because I really think they are too salty and always scub off the salt off! So why bother in the first place? Right? Why not just get the unsalted to begin with?
Well, I kind of like rubbing the salt off the pretzel leaving only a satisfactory amount. This little idiosyncrasy got me thinking, does anyone ever eat a Salted Soft Pretzel with *all* the salt on it? Well from my extensive research and hours of surveying (actually I just asked the person next to me) I found that everyone gets the salted pretzel, and everyone invariable always scrubs the salt off. So what is really going on here? Why go through the extra motions?
Then dawned on me. It wasn’t the fact that I was scrubbing the salt off to make it a pleasurable chore, but rather the feeling that I was preparing my food! Living in New York City one does not often getting around to cooking and I, like so many other people have now come to the sad stage of my life where unsalting pretzels equates to cooking a meal.
