It wasn't worth it

mutkin

I just had one my favorite saturday mornings. I caught an early girly flick at the local movie theatre...I like to go early so I still have my whole day ahead of me when I get out. I decided I'd have a pretzel & diet soda as part of my treat, knowing full well it would be a lot of a calories. I could figure them into my day and it would be alright.

However, the pretzel was crap. I had envision this really good new york style vendor pretzel. Dark golden brown on the outside, perfect chewiness on the inside. But what I got was something completely different. It was a sickly yellow....like it had way too much butter. And the flavor, well....not at all what i wanted. But, stupidly, I still ate the whole thing! I thinking along the lines of "I paid $4.50 for this damn pretzel, so I will eat it!"

So...what ever happened to old fashioned soft pretzels? I would have gladly scarified nearly 450 calories for one of those. But not for what I got.

mutkin

I just had one my favorite saturday mornings. I caught an early girly flick at the local movie theatre...I like to go early so I still have my whole day ahead of me when I get out. I decided I'd have a pretzel & diet soda as part of my treat, knowing full well it would be a lot of a calories. I could figure them into my day and it would be alright.

However, the pretzel was crap. I had envision this really good new york style vendor pretzel. Dark golden brown on the outside, perfect chewiness on the inside. But what I got was something completely different. It was a sickly yellow....like it had way too much butter. And the flavor, well....not at all what i wanted. But, stupidly, I still ate the whole thing! I thinking along the lines of "I paid $4.50 for this damn pretzel, so I will eat it!"

So...what ever happened to old fashioned soft pretzels? I would have gladly scarified nearly 450 calories for one of those. But not for what I got.

jeffwyeg

I know exactly what you mean...sometimes things just don't live up to the hype...ha ha!

It's the same reason I've been avoiding McDonalds...I've been so tempted to grab my favourite: Quarter-Pounder with Cheese & Fries and then just eat salad the rest of the day, or hit the gym to burn some of it off. However, I know darn well that I'm just going to be disappointed by it.

Instead, I'll just hold off and eat some carrot sticks to get me through...ha ha!


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Georg

It's good to know what you don't want to do again.

adopt4

Too funny, I just went thru that today with french fries. Didn't realize the calories they were.. even a small fry... and they just weren't worth it. Hard to believe that since I was a french fry-a-holic 2 months ago.

TudorRose

Yep, had the same experience yesterday, with a Malteaser Bunny. I love Malteasers, love the Celebrations version and thought this bunny would be like that. Hell no. It had a sort of low quality truffley texture thing inside and the odd crunchy bobble. Won't be doing that again. Thankfully, it was only 155 calories, but I was still miffed.

keiko

I love Auntie Annie's pretzels in the mall. We don't have them by us so there is not much temptation. As for the movie theatre. Aren't theirs just frozen & heated? I don't even like movie popcorn anymore. It tastes like styrofoam with salt. I love popcorn at home in the whirlypop!