Andie MacDowell<\/a>. (What’s this? a link?)<\/p>\nNow I know that many of you carb junkies and beer-guzzlers in my little neighborhood of webspace will argue that my loathing of the little salt covered stale bread pieces marketed directly to you in tremendous and distubing quantities is unwarranted and that pretzels will some day replace petroleum as the sole energy source and messiah of the modern world. That will put Bush in his place.<\/p>\n
“Who doesn’t like pretzels?” The answer is simply: the Buddha don’t. Awful grammar makes the answer all the simpler, my pupil. I know that millions of people around the world are satisfied to put the mildly spiced dross of so many breadmakers into their slavering maws by the handful, but I say to that, “No, thank you.”<\/p>\n
I’ve only recently discovered this, and am working on its applications to popcorn and peanuts, just to create an unholy trinity of hatred poorly thought out snack food.<\/p>\n
I hope there will be comments on this one. Maybe I’ll even make a forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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