Pretzels and JWs (page 3)

BurnTheShips

A pretzel is implicated in the attempted assasination of a current US president. A sinister pastry indeed.

BTS

hillbilly

yea...we heard the pretzel thing.

Seems it was a way to hide the cross in some early anti-Christian cultures.

Got beer?..my preztels are salty

~J

I purchased dozens of bags of pretzels from the Brooklyn Bethel commissary, during the years that I worked there. They were Rold Gold Tiny Twists, similar to the photo at the beginning of this thread.

I quit!

I seem to remember something about "touch not the unclean pretzel" and that they had to properly bled. We never ate them because no one could figure out how to bleed them.

Jankyn

I heard this one from the same weirdo Dub family that wouldn't get a cone at Dairy Queen because there was "blood" in the ice cream, and wouldn't eat Oscar Meyer's lunch meat products because they weren't properly "bled." My mother told me it was horse puckey. However, my mother also refused to sell "blood sausage" when she worked at a deli. Fortunately, no one wanted to eat it, either. Jankyn

undercover

I remember this coming up before on the forum.

It seems that certain congregations did actually spread info around about the origin of the design of the pretzel. I can see some over-zealous types pushing an agenda of not eating them because of the perceived origin of the design. I vaguely remember, as a kid, someone in our congregation claiming to not eating pretzels. Too long ago to remember the details.

It's funny how the publications willl go on about not being superstitious but yet their members have some of the wackier superstitions of the so-called Christian religions. While some silliness may not be officially sanctioned by the organization, like pretzels, they do very little to stop the spread of the disease of the superstious fear of inanimate objects. It's like mind-control through osmosis. It spreads from member to member without so much as a real dictate ever being uttered.

jaguarbass

Never heard this one.

But I remember I couldn't eat 3 muskateers and milkyways and Mars bars because they had lethecin.

Pretzels and JWs