This week’s The Onion features an “editorial by W. Friedrich Snyder, the CEO and Heir to Snyder’s of Hanover” which details the proud legacy of Snyder’s of Hanover (not to be confused with Snyder of Berlin, thankyouverymuch) through the ages:
“When my ancestor, George, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, founded the House of Hanover in 1635 by establishing the first great Pretzelwerks of Old Europe, he could not have known what a great tradition he had birthed…. the Hanovers’ reputation for pretzel mastery grew….and, most importantly, established a pretzel- making dynasty that would dominate the snack-food landscape until the rule of Queen Victoria….And though the House of Hanover’s royal line met an untimely demise in 1918, there lived on something no power-hungry Jacobites or low-carbohydrate diet craze could destroy. Commitment, dear friends, is immortal.”
In case you didn’t know, Pennsylvania is the Snack Food Capital of the World. It’s true – even the PA Dept. of Agriculture says so. Mmm…all this pretzel talk makes me hungry 
for some Herlocher’s Dipping Mustard!
Is anyone else’s hometown famous for something unusual?
