Ben’s Soft Pretzels

Buggy Bites… my guilty pleasure. I cannot even eat Auntie Anne’s pretzel anymore. These are decadent little nuggets of pretzel. I will be back, time and time again.

Thank you Ben’s Pretzels for restoring my faith in humanity and for those gosh, darn delicious pretzels.
I tried these pretzels for the first time last year at a Notre Dame football game and they have haunted me ever since. We go to the ND hockey games more often and for some sick reason they only offer those generic frozen pretzels (that no longer have a hold on me). So after some audible complaints to anyone that would listen, a family member let me know that I could drive to the near by mall and they have the pretzels there… excellent.
We drove over 2 hours to make it to South Bend and the only thing on my mind was getting my paws on one– lets be honest– two of these pillowy delicious Amish creations. We were running late to the game– but my husband wouldn’t try to skip this important stop on today’s schedule, especially against his hormonal, starving wife.
We trek through the mall, and finally find what we’ve been waiting for. We order flavors on our pretzels, but were informed that we actually sprinkle our own on… No problem. That is until I go to sprinkle some on and it’s not really sticking… But I forge through sprinkle another load on and we start walking back through the mall to our car.
I am shoveling the pretzel in my mouth and I was disappointed. Did I just build this up in my head too much? This isn’t like the other one I had… I share my feelings with my husband and I start getting pretty upset on how not great this was. We get back to the car and I notice on the wrapper that if you are not satisfied to bring back your pretzel– they wanted to guarantee me a great pretzel experience. And for the sake of my marriage I decided to go back (by myself-​husband too embarrassed and sick of me).
I explained to the nice gentlemen– pretty much my life story surrounding today’s pretzel experience and that the pretzel wasn’t what I expected and probably needed an extra brush of butter so that toppings stick. They were super nice, gave me two new pretzels with extra butter and extra salt (upon my request). I sprinkle on some extra flavors (sour cream onion and cinnamon sugar) and just looking at these new pretzels I knew I made the right decision by coming back and not just writing a sad Unilocal review.
It was heavenly. So freakin’ good. Highly recommend you stop and get one… even if you live 2 hours away.

I can not walk out of the mall without a Ben’s Pretzel. A great product and still a decent value.