Welcome to Good Mythical More. Stevie’s gonna present us with a fact related to pretzels. But is it a real fact or an alternative fact? Uh huh. – [Stevie] And all the Mythical Crew are eating these Snyder’s pretzels. They’re great, aren’t they? They’re so good. I mean, like, that’s the best snack. It’s one of the best snacks. Isn’t it one of the best snacks? – [Stevie] I mean, the honey mustard and onion. Oh. Try that ranch. – [Stevie] You really gotta watch your breath. You gotta watch it get better and better by the second. Yep. Freeze frame. ((Dramatic Music)) I’m really, I’m really envious of those people in the Swiss Alps inside that little fondue pot. Like. It’s a pretty big fondue pot. Could, I mean, that might be, that might be the best Wheel of Mythicality video. It’s beautiful. That might be the one that made me the most. Jealous? Jealous. I’m like, oh, ahoy, I’m in Burbank. Ahoy, I’m in Burbank. Ahoy. – [Stevie] In a fondue pot in Burbank. Yeah. Yeah. Not the same. I mean, it’ll probably happen. Not the same. – [Stevie] Your first pretzel fact. Yeah. – [Stevie] Pretzels without salt are called baldies. Baldies? Baldies. Well, they’re called bad ideas, is what we learned. A baldie. Give me a baldie. I like that. I like that. It does seem true. Maybe, they might be called a smoothie. Cause they’re, they got a smooth skin. – [Stevie] Skin. Skin. – [Stevie] It’s true. It’s true. It’s true. Baldies. Now. Goldies? I never got soft pretzels, okay, I’m just gonna be honest with you. Maybe you relate to this. Stevie, you might as well, because you’re from the same place that we’re from. I don’t know if it’s something my dad said at some point, because my dad would just say things, you know, just like I do. And, and I just had this impression that pretzels were for Yankees. – [Stevie] Yankees? Yeah. Yeah. Pretzels are for Yankees. Pretzels are for Yankees. Bagels are for Yankees. Definitely. He never said that. But I don’t think, for some reason, I just never got a soft pretzel at, like, the mall. It’s Yankee food. You know, I don’t, he never said it, but it sounded like the kind of thing that he would say. And so, I developed this. Is that crazy? It doesn’t seem like a southern food. Because it is kind of like a mid, it is kind of like a midwestern sort of like where the Germans ended up, you know, settling or something. Like a midwestern German Yankee. It feels Yankee and, you know, midwestern. Am I wrong about this? – [Stevie] I guess you could say that about like a hot dog too. Right. – [Stevie] You know? Hot dogs are for Yankees. But we’ve like fully embraced hot dogs in North Carolina and made them like, there’s a Carolina dog, right? But like, you know, we eat a biscuit. – [Stevie] Well, no, at Four Seasons Mall, there’s a, is it a Wetzel’s or an Annie’s? It was always there, yeah. Did you, did you get them? – [Stevie] No, because presented with numerous options, I would never choose a soft pretzel. Right, because it was? – [Stevie] For Yankees? For Yankees. – [Stevie] Also, it was, I believe it was near the, scarier area. The scarier area. The scary part of the mall. One of the four floors. – [Stevie] Yeah. Well. Yeah. Stevie grew up next to a 4 floor mall. She worked there. She built bears. Eventually she built bears there. – [Stevie] Yep. You built bears. Now I did recently, well not, I would say three months ago, I went to the mall. Build-A-Bear? I was reminded that I don’t like to go to the mall. But I did get, I did go to a pretzel stand. I was with my nieces, and they really wanted some pretzels, and we got up there, and she bought a sack of. A sack? Of a cinnamon and sugar. Ooh, twists! No, it was just like, uh, just little. Balls. Balls. Balls. It was like chopped up pieces of. Oh, those are good. Did you taste one? That was so good. You tasted one. I ate the majority of the bag. That’s the way to go, I think. – [Stevie] Oh, I don’t remember those existing back in the day. It’s interesting they don’t have a cinnamon sugar. It’s basically like Munchkins. You could do the cinnamon sugar pieces. Those pieces could be cinnamon sugar. That could be one of the ones. They should do that, Snyder. Come back to shore from your yacht. And come up with a new flavor. Let’s hear another. – [Stevie] In 2002, Wetzel’s Pretzels did a stunt campaign where they sold edible pretzel purses to store their pretzel bites. Edible pretzel. Two-thousand and what? – [Stevie] Two. Purses? People didn’t do that kind of thing in 2002. It’s pre web, is what they called that. People didn’t do cool things pre web. That’s a good point. Cause who are you gonna tell about it? You gonna put it in the paper? You might put it in like People Magazine. Yeah. I don’t know, it might get them talking. Yeah, too early. Too early. – [Stevie] You got it. Thank you, Rhett. Now people just do things to do things. You know? That’s what the internet’s done. No. They used to do things to do things. Now they do things for the internet. For the clicks. – [Stevie] I also didn’t look at, like, the next fact, but I said, oh, I don’t remember pretzel bites existing back in the day. And the next fact was about pretzel bites, so, that was my bad, really. Ooh. Ooh. Let’s hear it. – [Stevie] The average Philadelphian consumes up to 12 pounds of pretzels per year. See, it’s kind of a Yankee food. Yeah. Yeah. 12 pounds on average? There’s, okay, first of all, like. There’s no way, right? Let me do some math here. One pretzel at a pretzel stand. Is not a pound. Is not a pound. It’s not even a quarter pound. Right. It’s an eighth of a pound. So 8 times 12 is 96. You telling me somebody’s eating 96 pretzels in a year? No, everybody on average is eating around that. Every Philadelphian’s having, how many is that a month? I mean, that’s like, you’re having more than one a week. You’re having almost two pretzels a week. 7.5 pretzels a month? Somebody who lied didn’t do the math. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s a. Got you again. That is a stinking lie. – [Stevie] Those are staggering numbers. But this is supposed to be a fact. Well, I guess if you’re taking into account all pretzels, like, all snack pretzels. Now Rhett’s like, yeah, I can see it. – [Stevie] Well, it does say pretzel. It doesn’t say soft pretzels. It says pretzels. Can you give us a bag of pretzels? Just one of the bags that y’all back there, just ((Laughing)) enjoying. Now, give me a, give me a weight on that. This whole thing is 10 ounces, so this is not. This isn’t even a pound. So they’re eating, they’re eating like. Philadelphia, y’all need to. 15 of these in a year. Y’all need to slow y’all roll. Y’all got to stop. Y’all need to eat more cheesesteaks or something. Y’all need to stop. – [Stevie] The term tying the knot originated from royal Swiss couples breaking pretzels to make a wish during wedding ceremonies. So breaking a pretzel is called tying the knot? That doesn’t feel right. It feels like. Where is this again? Switzerland? – [Stevie] Switzerland. Switz, you said Switz. You know, the Switz people. So they would get married and they would break a pretzel apart? That seems to be anti symbolic. I don’t think this is true because, you remember Braveheart? Yeah, man, yeah, yeah. Freedom, yeah, yeah. They got married in secret. Right. And they didn’t have rings, they had those like, bands, like around their wrists. And I think that it comes from, you literally would tie people together. That was the way that they did the ceremonies. It was literally tying people together, was tying the knot. So I think this is a soft lie. It’s not about pretzels. – [Stevie] It’s, it’s a fact. The way that you’re guessing today makes me second guess the things that are facts. Welcome, welcome to my world. I can convince you of anything, Stevie. So, tying the knot came from breaking a pretzel apart in Switzerland? – [Stevie] It’s, I guess it’s like a, like a wishbone type of exercise, but with a pretzel. Do the Swiss still do this? I certainly hope so. I wonder if that couple that fell in love in the fondue pot will get married. – [Stevie] That fell in love in the fondue pot? ((Laughing)) I could see it. I could see it on their faces, they were falling in love. – [Stevie] Pretzels were one of the most common snacks prepared at sea by sailors due to their simple ingredients and the crew’s abundant access to salt. You can’t go on a trip with somebody that you think you might fall in love with. I don’t think. I’m just saying, you know what I’m saying? Like I think if like. What do you mean? I’m just saying, you know how we used to call it, uh. – Stint goggles. – Stint goggles. So there was a thing that you could do. Back when, you know us, you know our background. And people would go and they would do little missions trips. But you do with long stints. And it was called Short Term International Mission Trips. Stint, for short. And what would happen is, you would like, okay, like, eight Americans would go to some other country to tell everybody about Jesus, because of course they’d never heard of him. And, well, some people hadn’t. And, it’s true, some people hadn’t. And, what happens is, it’s like you’re there with, like. It’s true. Eight other Americans, and you just start bonding in a way that is like an accelerated bond, you know what I’m saying? Like a summer camp bond? It’s like beer goggles. But we called them stint goggles, so people would fall in love, and a lot of times, like, get engaged. And then they would, like, come back, and it would be like, what? When we were in that fondue pot, you seemed so beautiful. ((Laughing)) So what I’m saying is. On the inside. What I’m saying is, you gotta be careful going on trips with people, because you might fall in love with them. Yep. True. And if you go to prison. Yeah, that’s a whole different kind of love. You know, it’s all contextual. What was the question, though? – [Stevie] Yep, I was waiting for it. Pretzels were one of the most common snacks prepared at sea by sailors due to their simple ingredients. I was waiting for it. This is a lie because you have to bake bread in order to then let it dry out or something. to make a pretzel. So, they’re not baking bread on pirate ships. Oh yeah, they are. They got a, they got an oven on there. – [Stevie] Well, I didn’t say pirate ships. ((Laughing)) Yacht ovens. Is what they call it. – [Stevie] But it is fake. Not yachts. – [Stevie] It is not true. Yes, see? I got you, Rhett. – [Stevie] Ooh. Many experts believe the pretzel has Christian origins. I was about to say organs. And the shape of the pretzel is supposed to be a child praying with their arms across their chest. Let’s look at a pretzel. Let’s look at these peanut butter stuffed pretzels. It’s like that? A child praying. This is how you’re supposed to pray, like? Yeah, yeah. This is a child praying. Which way, though? I don’t, I think it’s, you’re gonna, like, it’s like that. It’s really like. I think this is a child playing that game where you, like, do, you do this thing. Oh, yeah. Remember that? In middle school? I’m making out with someone. ((Laughing)) I’m not praying, I’m making out. I don’t, I don’t, I’m not buying it. Soft lies. That is a. That’s a hard pretzel. – [Stevie] It’s real. When you told us that one, Stevie, I thought you were just talking. I even, I kind of got lost in the conversation. – [Stevie] Yeah, I always, I do use, like, the word many. Many experts believe is, uh, it’s so me. I thought, I thought you were reading an additional fact. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Conversationally. Like one you already knew. Like, oh, I’m seeing this one. Well, a lot of people, many experts. In my yacht search. – [Stevie] Yeah. Kinda disappointed in the, lack of Snyder’s yachts. Yeah. Do you know the Wrigley family, they like own Catalina Island. Did you know that? Chase knows. He’s done some diving out there. You can’t pin down those Wrigleys. – What? – You know why? Yes, it is. And the Cubs did their spring training because Wrigley Field in Chicago, that’s where the family was from. They did their spring training on Catalina in like the 1920s. Crazy. And then, when you go in there, if you go, you’ve probably seen it, right? You’ve seen the pictures and there’s that big house up there on the left. That’s the Wrigley house. They used to own the whole island and now all the like, Wrigley grandkids. are the, they run the board for the whole Catalina Island and they make all the decisions and everybody is like, is like kinda not happy with them. The Wrigleys. So I just kinda had in my mind that the Snyders were very similar and they had a yacht that we could go eat pretzels on. – [Stevie] Well we didn’t look up Snyder Island. That might lead to some other things. Now we’re into something. Was there a question or have you not? – [Stevie] There’s another question. We’re not letting her get to that next question. – [Stevie] A pretzel almost started a war. when the royal family of Prussia presented the king of France with a pretzel that was burnt on the bottom, which was seen as an insult. Ooh. No. Yes. – Yes. – No, no, no. They were happy just to be eating anything back then. Yeah, it’s fake. Ah, Prussia! ((Laughing)) Ah, Prussia! I’m under so much Prussia. Under Prussia. – [Stevie] I’m out of pretzel facts. Oh, well, come up, come up with just the one off the top of your head. We did that earlier. – [Stevie] Many experts believe. 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