Are jumbo salted pretzels really a thing in Germany?

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1. Yes?

   I mean from the pictures on that site ours are thicker.

2. Who needs “Auntie Anne” when you can get Pretzels in every bakery at every other street corner?

3. 1) yes.

   2) don’t see how it is jumbo. A bit large, maybe, but nothing unusual.

   3) no clue why you would expect Auntie Anne’s in Germany.

4. Hey do you guys have seafood in Germany? I do not see any Long John Silvers…

5. i‘d say it’s almost a standard item in german a bakery. best i had where in bavaria.

6. I know that corporate America is doing its best to leverage cultural appropriation to turn the whole world into one big Main Street USA, but what on earth makes you think that Auntie Anne is the only company that does pretzels? Or that Germans would even want to buy American pretzels?

   Yes, “jumbo salted pretzels” are very much a thing in Germany. You can get them in almost any supermarket and bakery: they’re nothing special that you would need a fast-food chain to dispense them together with… ::checks website:: …*caramel dip*? Seriously, WTF?

7. Well, that’s not what I think of when I hear “jumbo pretzel”. We have normal [Brezeln](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezel#/media/Datei:Muenchner_Brezn.jpg). Which are not the same as those [tiny Salzbrezeln](https://thumbnails.yayimages.com/1600/0/a8f/a8fd0d.jpg). Those we have too, but that’s not what anyone thinks of when talking about a Brezel.

   A Riesenbrezel would be something like this: https://voss-baeckerei.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190222_Riesenbrezel_1.jpg

8. 𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔥!

9. Large Brez’n are a thing for sure, but they are very different to an American pretzel.

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11. Those Auntie Anne’s abominations are NOTHING AT ALL like a real German pretzel. They are greasy, artificially flavored things more like a donut than a pretzel.

    Germans of reddit, this is approximately equivalent to asking how Germans can have Schnitzel when there is no McDonalds around selling Filet O Fish.

12. Jumbo pretzels are commonly sold at fairs, but they’re bigger than the ones in the picture. And normal pretzels are sold in literally every bakery and then there’s also bakeries that just sell pretzels. No need for an American chain.

13. Posts like these irritate me to an irrational level.

14. Your post was like

    ‘why does Usa even make beer when they could simply buy it from Bavaria?’

15. Wait, isn’t that the usual size? I was thinking rest of the Bretzels are small in size?

16. That in the picture is so skinny, I think someone screwed it up.

    Also, no dips. Butter, cream cheese or Obatzter it is.

17. This shouldn’t be flaired “Humour,” it should be “Clueless AF”