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"   Pretzels are not really in my purview. Not because I don&amp;#039;t have a taste for them, but simply because I view the pretzel as tempting, but lacking substance (significant nutrition, etc). But pretzels have a storied past, with links back to the Pennsylvania Dutch, and even further back to baker&amp;#039;s guilds in 12th-century Germany, and their simple pleasures should not be overlooked (as I have been doing for many years). Snyder&amp;#039;s of Hanover have been twisting pretzels for over a century in Hanover, Pennsylvania and have established themselves as the #1 pretzel maker in the United States (that is salt in the wound for Frito-Lay). Their newest and likely most inventive products to date are their Organic Honey Whole Wheat Sticks and their Organic Whole Wheat &amp;amp;amp; Oat Sticks, both of which are essentially pretzels in stick form.  Both of these wholesome but fairly quotidian looking snacks are made with organic ingredients like organic oat flour, organic honey, and organic blue agave syrup. The inclusion of honey and agave syrup makes for a distinctive sweetness that gives these pretzels a moderate addictive quality. As far as bagged pretzels go, both of these varieties are superlative products, but the innovative aspect of these pretzels is not the product but the bag in which they are contained.  Snyder&amp;#039;s in collaboration with Clear Lam Packaging has replaced the conventional petroleum-based plastic bag with a renewable plant based packaging. This new packaging is produced with half the amount of energy and generates as little as 52 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions in the manufacturing process. However, unlike SunChips compostable packaging, this pretzel bag seems to have only one life to live. Snyder&amp;#039;s of Hanover Organic Pretzel Sticks are sold in 8-ounce bags ($3.59) and are available just about everywhere bagged snacks are sold. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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