New to the Lou: Salty Un­cer­tainty

New to the Lou fans, Saints, and Paw­Print read­ers, the time has fi­nally come; A spot which I would not par­tic­u­larly rec­om­mend to my au­di­ence. This week, I was search­ing for a spot where I could find a snack. Its not every week I have a full meal to re­view in the bud­get. Some­thing quick, easy, and most im­por­tant af­ford­able for us col­lege stu­dents.

What I found was cer­tainly “A Twisted Ex­pe­ri­ence,” as their slo­gan de­scribes, at Pret­zel Boy’s lo­cated at 5006 Hamp­ton Ave. When you think of a soft pret­zel, you may firstly think of the leader in this mar­ket- Aun­tie An­ne’s. At Pret­zel Boy’s, you can ex­pect pret­zels far from the stan­dards of Aun­tie An­ne’s but rather a more fla­vor­less, dry pret­zel. One man’s trash is an­other man’s trea­sure, how­ever, so I can­not speak for every­one who has tried a Pret­zel Boy’s pret­zel. 

On the dip­ping side of the menu, you can find fla­vors a cut above, in­clud­ing ched­dar, Amer­i­can, or jalapeno cheeses, or vanilla cream cheese ic­ing. Very hearty dips to ac­com­pany what­ever your se­lec­tion of the menu may be! Pret­zel Boy’s serves nuggets, “soft­ies”, and pret­zel wrapped meats. 

I chose to go all in with the “2 softie combo” which in­cludes two soft pret­zels ac­com­pa­nied by your choice of cheese and a drink. I de­cided to go with the cin­na­mon sugar softie and a reg­u­lar, salted softie. While I can’t say I was overly en­thu­si­as­tic about the pret­zels I re­ceived, they def­i­nitely weren’t the worst snack I’ve ever had. 

My room­mate Lau­ren Dick­hut, Maryville Uni­ver­sity sec­ond-year phys­i­cal ther­apy ma­jor, said that “the pret­zels were un­der­whelm­ing but the cheese and cream cheese I got to dip them in were amaz­ing”.

Lau­ren works at Creve Coeur park as a con­ces­sions at­ten­dant, so she has had her fair share of soft pret­zels. She of­ten takes one to go af­ter a shift and would con­sider her­self some­what of a fa­mil­iar judge of soft pret­zels. 

My other room­mate, Jor­dan Bod­den, who is also a sec­ond-year Maryville Uni­ver­sity phys­i­cal ther­apy ma­jor says, “I would­n’t go back to Pret­zel Boy’s, but it was a fun ad­ven­ture!” Jor­dan or­dered the pret­zel wrapped bratwurst, which she found was slightly un­der­done.

All three us of were an­tic­i­pat­ing get­ting an end of the week snack, but it ended up not be­ing what we ex­pected. You know what they say, if at first you don’t suc­ceed, try and try again! It cer­tainly was a try! Tune in next week to see what spot I will be try­ing and rec­om­mend­ing. Sug­ges­tions to new places are al­ways wel­come!

Sug­ges­tions can be emailed to: mhill23@live.maryville.edu

If you are look­ing for some­thing quick and cheap, you can or­der a soft pret­zel for un­der $2.00 at Pret­zel Boy’s. Try if you dare.. That’s all for this week, I’ll catch you all next time on New to the Lou!