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I just love pretzels and ice cream! Just the thought of it is making my mouth water! Sound good to you?

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Sounds quite palatable, if you're talking about the sweet doughy kind.

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pretzels = awesome
ice cream = awesome

awesome * awesome != awesome

That being said, I should probably try pretzels in ice cream before assuming awesome squared results in an overflow and integer wrap around or something like that...

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What are "pretzels"?

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They are a German pastry, generally with a characteristic knot shape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel


Hey, relevantly in the Pretzel as snack food section

During the 1900s, people in Philadelphia would use the small slender pretzel stick as a common accompaniment to ice cream or would crumble pretzels as a topping. This combination of cold sweet and salty taste was very popular for many years. Eventually this led to the development of an ice cream cone tasting like a pretzel.

(although no citations for that section!)

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I remember finding foreign salty liquorish in a shop once.

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Add some chocolate coating and peanut butter and you've got Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby which is most delectable.

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Rabscuttle wrote:
They are a German pastry, generally with a characteristic knot shape.

Many thanks for that link Rab - I have eaten those I think (didn't much like them I have to say) but I didn't know that was what they were.

Interestingly, the link you gave lead me to the page on "lye", which is used in the baking of Pretzels (and which I had not heard of). It is in fact sodium hydroxide - caustic soda!!!! That I have heard of - and used for cleaning drains. I was genuinely astonished to find that it is used, quite extensively it seems, in cooking and baking.

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It's also used to make soap. Since you haven't dissolved in the shower yet, you're probably OK.

Also, your body is 98% dihydrogen monoxide, the inhalation of which is a common cause of death.

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Elfstone wrote:
What are "pretzels"?

*GASP!!!* The don't eat pretzels in Scotland?! I was thinking of going there someday, but now I've totally lost the appeal!
Oh, and Rabscuttle, I'm talking about the hard and crunchy kind.

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I really like french loaf (not per se, just a loong bun) made as a pretzel (crunchy and salty). Now, such long pretzel is nice with butter, some ham and vegetables, like any other sandwich... But on a long pretzel!

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You're making me hungry! Why would you even do that?! Now I have to go all the way to the kitchen and make myself a snack, all thanks to you!

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Hey! You're the one who brought up the subject of food.

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It can't be my fault because nothing's my fault, so it must be the fault of whoever I decide to blame and this time I blame YOU!!!

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12th Archivist wrote:
pretzels = awesome
ice cream = awesome

awesome * awesome != awesome

That being said, I should probably try pretzels in ice cream before assuming awesome squared results in an overflow and integer wrap around or something like that...

This doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't it be:

pretzels and ice cream = awesome
awesome + awesome != awesome

Also, we must also consider the case that awesome = 0.

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Your brain = 0

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Rat Man wrote:
Your brain = 0

Either you decided to suddenly rebel against the universe or your evil twin'o'doom has taken control over your body.

This, or I am simply missing the humour circulating in this thread.

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Jeez, Rat Man, you could at least come up with entertaining insults if you're going to throw them out randomly. I don't think you can, though, so why don't you just be nicer?

If you're thinking of once again saying that it's a joke, I submit to you that your sense of humor is lacking.

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I was just joking around.
Edition: Post collision! Jatopian, I can usually think of good jokes but I was tired and not really paying attention to what I was doing at the time.

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Clearly, that was a reference to the classic anti-drug commercial, and Rat Man is saying that your brain is not on drugs.

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Just because you stuck 'It's a joke!' onto it doesn't transform it into a joke in the eyes of others. If you have to say that, either you failed to tell the joke, or it wasn't a joke to begin with.

Strangely enough, this seems to happen a lot when a gay guy hits on me.

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Too true.

*shivers*

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NiroZ wrote:
Just because you stuck 'It's a joke!' onto it doesn't transform it into a joke in the eyes of others. If you have to say that, either you failed to tell the joke, or it wasn't a joke to begin with.

There is alway Banjooie, but I think that person kind of slips away from all and any descriptions and restrictions.

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On topic.. I don't know about pretzels, but McDonalds fries + sundaes go very well together.

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You just reminded me of the awesomeness of honey mustard. You can put fries, fried chicken, tortilla chips, apples, and probably a dozen other delicious things in honey mustard to make them even more delicious.

I doubt honey mustard on ice cream would go down very well, though.

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Honey mustard sounds good. I hope it doesn't actually contain any honey (or not more than gold flakes) as I hate, loathe and despise honey unfortunately .

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Rat Man wrote:
It can't be my fault because nothing's my fault, so it must be the fault of whoever I decide to blame and this time I blame YOU!!!

This explains something. I think. Maybe.

On topic, salt + ice cream = why? There is a limit to how you can combine your foods before they become untasty.

Of course, the ideal beverage to go with any food is either Tea or Lemonade.


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Neither of those goes well with chocolate.

I don't think honey mustard would be good in ice cream, but I find that a drizzle of honey on ice cream is good, especially soft serve ice cream.

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Salt + chocolate seems to be the new trend. My local Walmart has several kinds of Venezuelan chocolate bars which have salt as one of the "flavorings". Starbucks has a salty caramel hot chocolate drink.

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Gross. I don't like too much salt with my sweet stuff and I don't like this with chocolate.

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