Interestingly, despite Marks & Spencer being a British brand, the description of the pretzels is "The Great American Snack". While I can't confirm Marks & Spencer's absence in US, I know that Marks & Spencer is relatively unknown within the country. Marketing elements include 'The Big Apple' and 'Hollywood', two of the most iconic elements of US, I guess.
If I were to market a Malaysian product I'll probably label it with 'hairspray' hehe. Either that or 'submarine'
A cutesy sunflower adorns the upper right corner of the packaging, with an explanation on the rear announcing that the sunflower indicates finishing the whole 150g of pretzels would be less detrimental to your health compared to...well, we don't know. Frankly, I can't see how does this work that way because...
Each individual pretzel was slightly smaller than a 50cent coin, and was coated with black pepper and course sea salt. The 2 elements added a very nice kick to the otherwise bland yet addictive pretzel pieces. Putting a pretzel with a larger piece of salt in your mouth gives you the taste of putting salt in your mouth, sans the unpleasantness and thirst that follows. Same goes for pepper bits.
After finishing the whole bag of pretzels, I poured the crumbs into my mouth (the best part, usually) but got a rather horrid shock. Turns out salt and pepper bits don't stick to the pretzels as well as powdered flavouring, and gave me a nasty overdose of salt and pepper.
A bag of pretzels usually cost about SGD3.50, but came to about free for me. Its a little pricey, but I would buy it because it was that great. No, it wasn't great in a mind blowing manner, but these are things that you can go on eating forever and not get sick of.
I hate sharing food.
