Every April 27th, we celebrate the treat that could be sweet but also be salty and has an array of dips to choose from. This National Pretzel Day, Philip Given, co-founder of The Pretzel Company, joined News Wrap's Food Stand to tell us all about the knotty treats. 

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National Pretzel Day with The Pretzel Company

Mhm. Time for news Rap's food stamps. We try where we try trending, mouthwatering, eats. And tell you all about them. So what is sweet but can also be salty, tough, crunchy or soft and chewy. It's pretzels y'all in today's National Pretzel Day and we're not kidding an observance. We have a new york based pretzel shop right here in the studio. The pretzel company is with us today. Please welcome Philip given co founder of the Pretzel Company Philip. Welcome you brought this in. I don't know if people can see this large trailer. Look at all these pretzels. Tell us everything about what you brought here. We'll first have to correct you because I'm from pennsylvania, not new york. And we're very, we're very particular about our pretzels in pennsylvania and start eating pennsylvania is the snack food capital of the world. I don't know that it is. And we say that we're from Pretzel country. So these are our signature soft pretzels. We ship them from the Pretzel company dot com to all 48 continental states and right here sampling of mustards for you guys. You're starting with the Dill, which is actually a low key favorite of a lot of people wasabi bacon, jalapeno sweet hot, which is the overall favorite, which you have to try, sweetheart. I will the original and then sriracha. I think he went for the cheese dip. Right? Yeah. I went straight for the cheese dip. Absolutely and delicious. They're soft and they're salty. They're really good. These are nuggets, right? Yeah, yeah. So it's National Pretzel Day everyday is Pretzel Day to us. we've got an awesome team of bakers back home in york. That hand twist every pretzel that you see, right? So they hand twist in new york. Yeah, well in york york pennsylvania. Excuse me? Yeah, now it's very confusing. No, no, no, okay, alright, so we asked followers on twitter, what is the best pretzel dip out there of onion, cheese and nutella, Do you want to take the results? Can, Yeah, let's do it. Alright, so many users have said cheese dip, but you are all experts. So what's the best dip for each type of Pretzel? What is the best dip for each type of Pretzel like nuggets twist bread, like bread stick looking ones, you know, it's real tough, the massive ones generally are good on like a charcuterie board, right? Can you imagine sharing that with like meats and cheese and a bunch of your friends, the nuggets are obviously very good for dipping and like crab dip, cheese dip, that sort of thing for me, it's the signature Pretzel, that's that, that guy right there and sweet hot mustard, which is also huge by the way, even smaller Pretzels, Pretzels so um special compared to other Pretzel makers that are out there, especially this National Pretzel Day. Yeah, so it's a national Pretzel Day um what we like to talk about is we're a small family owned company, right? Since 2014, we've been twisting pretzels in downtown new york pennsylvania and we kind of do things the hard ways, right? There's a lot of ways to automate this. And a lot of companies that are selling pretzels made by robots are pretzels or what's the deal with that? I don't know man. So when my question is, I think pretzels, I think bar food, but they're outside of bar food. Where could you have pretzels? What do you recommend? Pretzels for what events? So prior to Covid, right, Most of our business was wholesale to bars. Exactly right. What we've seen since then is really like it's the perfect gift. So mother's Day is right around the corner. We've got some packages on the site. We can get pretzels and candy, maybe a favorite dip. If mom wants one, we really find that like any gifting season is a good pretzel gifting season. So do you have any specials to celebrate National Pretzel Day? So buy one, get 1 50% off. So if you go and use code bogo 50 you can get that for national Pretzel Day. And then for all you cheddar fans cheddar 25 25 25 7 co founder of the Pretzel company. We're going to keep eating these pretzels happy National Pretzel Day. Everybody