Savor Classics: Pretzels

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Pretzels have morphed from a religious symbol to a bar snack to a metaphor for principles of quantum physics. In this classic episode, Anney and Lauren explore the twists of pretzel history, culture, and science.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:13.3	Hello and welcome to Saver, production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.8	I'm Annie Hewis.
0:16.6	And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum.
0:18.0	And today we have a classic episode for you about pretzels.
0:22.7	Yes.
0:24.1	And it goes a bit back.
0:26.7	We were younger in those days.
0:28.6	Yeah, this one is from March of 2019.
0:32.5	You can hear it in just the clear excitement in our voices. And also in, this might have been the first
0:43.0	time that we ran across one of these baked goods episodes where a baked good saved a city
0:49.1	during a siege. Yeah. Because I'm not impressed by that anymore.
0:57.3	Oh, you're desensitized.
0:58.8	I'm desensitized to the story, yeah. I'm like, oh, who hasn't saved a city during a siege when you're a baked good?
1:08.2	Do you have a mascot? The pretzel does. That should be the next. Oh, there you go. Yeah.
1:14.9	I'm still impressed by mascots. Yes. Yes. Well, I think I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask you
1:23.8	anyway. Was there any particular reason this was on your mind to bring back horn? Oh, I don't, I, now I'm curious to know what you think the answer is, because I'm
1:33.1	pretty sure that I was just browsing through our classics, and like a baked good was sort of
1:38.7	kind of a thing that we hadn't talked about in a second. And so I was like, yeah, put that one in there.
1:46.5	Although, as I was going through the episode, I was like, oh, man, we should have run this
1:52.3	before Easter because it's, as it turns out, extremely Easter coded.
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