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Article: SNACK ATTACK BOOSTS PROFILE OF PRETZELS PRETZEL MAKERS PUT THEIR TWIST ON THE NEWS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2002
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What does it mean, in an age of tight security and international
menace, when the president of the United States gets beaten up by a
pretzel?
The pictures don't lie, after all. The commander in chief appeared
yesterday with a puffy lip and a big scrape on his cheek and made
sheepish jokes all day about protecting himself from pretzeldom. This
after a mysterious incident of which we have only the barest
outline: President Bush, watching football with his dogs, eats a
pretzel that (in the words of the White House spokesman) does not "go
down right." He loses consciousness and hits his head on the
furniture.
Thump - bam - and for a few lonely seconds, we're a rudderless
nation. Could it be ...