Pretzels for breakfast

The first focus groups started this morning at 10am, so as expected there was an array of breakfast-y foods for us to eat while we sat in the dark, taking notes. I expected some cheese and meat sandwiches (check), some decadent looking sweet roll type things (check), but I did not, in a million years, ever expect to see pretzels sharing space with croissants on the breakfast table. Which meant that of course, I just had to one. I mean, how often are your proffered with the suggestion of eating a baked pretzel at 9am? And when in Rome (or Germany in this case), ... Looking around the focus group room, I noticed that more than half of the women had chosen pretzels as their breakfast option, as well. 

I love Germany.