![]() ![]() This is a safe space and definitely won’t be published on the internet.) Any “rivalries” you really don’t want to think about (think beyond football) but that are probably there? (It’s OK to admit it. Any East Coast teams you wish were on your team’s non-conference schedule?ģ. ![]() Who do you consider the rivals of Penn State? Play scheduling god for a moment: how would you handle the Nittany Lions’ non-conference scheduling of these rivals?Ģ. Some might say that when talking about rivalries, Nittany Lions fans really…īut let’s take the Nittany Lions’ rivals–starting with the Pittsburgh Panthers, of course, but celebrate the return of the West Virginia rivalry in 2023-2024, look to the Syracuse home-and-home in 2027-2028 (h/t FBSchedules), and consider the perhaps-budding rivalry if the Terps can crawl their way into relevance under Mike Locksley.ġ. Penn State is alternatingly #UNRIVALED, rivals to Ohio State or Michigan State or someone in the Big Ten, ostensibly (s/o the Governor’s Victory Bell), or briefly and really vociferously angry about Pitt until the game ends and they’re back to professing how little they care. Yesterday Townie came in pretty hot, telling us he has a “sneaky good feeling” about his Nittany Lions, a team that notably did not win the 2021 Lambert-Meadowlands Cup. AMC soft pretzel bites with nacho cheese are my go-to movie snack. I love a pretzel with spicy brown mustard, and, believe it or not, and I know some of you know of my aversion to cheese, but I can do soft pretzels with a melty, heavily processed nacho cheese. I hate beer, but I will got a brewery because they almost always have them on the menu. I enjoy them on the rare occasions I have them, but that’s typically in a sporting event situation and it’s just salt and the creepy cheese. It was pretty freaking delicious, if I say so myself.īRT: I don’t think I have strong opinions on soft pretzels. My soft pretzels of choice, when I used to go to the mall in the Reading/Wyomissing border, were of the sweet variety, with that cinnamon sauce I no longer remember the name. I was, after all, born in the Caribbean! But hey, I lived in Pennsylvania for a good while, so I’ve been exposed to just about all the delicacies in this here week! Misdreavus79: This entire week could not be farther away from my regular diet. But if I have some hot, spicy brown mustard, I’m in heaven. I will gladly eat them without any topping. And I often bought soft pretzels from vendors waiting at the off-ramps. Townie: I used to work summers in the Philly area. I don’t care much for mustard, so lightly salted and dunked in that nuclear-orange nacho cheese suits me just fine. Green Akers: I confess to very basic behavior re: pretzels. In my late teens I worked near a place that made pizza-stuffed soft pretzels, and they were absolutely incredible and now just thinking about them I may need to run to Hy-Vee to get some ingredients to try to make them tonight. WSR: My preferred soft pretzel is the one I have in front of me. What’s your preferred soft pretzel – both provenance and toppings/dippings? They actually do seem pretty obsessed, for whatever that’s worth. Per the 1987 book The Larder Invaded, the earliest record of a street vendor selling pretzels in Philly is of one Daniel Christopher Kleiss, in the 1820s. (whose pretzels went into space on the Columbia space shuttle in 1996), and the Federal Baking Company. Among the pretzel factories the Times recommended touring were the still-extant Center City Pretzel Co., Philadelphia Soft Pretzels, Inc. He would tell stories of how his father learned his recipe from a traveling hobo and how the family sent pretzels to a son who was imprisoned at Andersonville during the Civil War. (Tobacco workers were the highest paid.) The article states that the first pretzel factory in America was opened in Lititz, in Lancaster County, in 1861 by Julius Sturgis one of his sons, Lewis, ran it almost until his death in 1976. Per a 1988 New York Times article on visiting Philly’s pretzel factories, pretzel-twisting was the second-highest-paying job in the city back in 1861. Today we’re highlighting something I genuinely did not know about Philadelphia and Pennsylvania (but should’ve inferred, I guess, because Germans) thanks to Philly Mag: Thursday: Penn State Offense Preview | Podcast: Has James Franklin lost the magic touch?įriday: Penn State Special Teams Preview | Penn State Predictions Tuesday: Can Manny Diaz maintain Brent Pry’s success? | Assessing James Franklin’s performance | Who’s Penn State’s TRUE rival? ![]()
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