{"id":213,"date":"2003-08-23T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=213"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:53:11","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-corn-pretz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Corn Pretz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/boo\/images\/CornPretz.jpg\" alt=\"CornPretz.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThey definitely taste more like corn than anything the States offers in &#8220;corn&#8221; flavoring.   Corn puffs?  Corn Chex?  Bugles?  They have nothing next to corn Pretz.  If you could magically transform creamed corn into a thin crunchy bread sticks you would have corn Pretz.  Right on the heels and trying to overtake the initial salty flavoring is the overwhelming sensation of CORN!  It&#8217;s so corn that you can even taste corn in your nose and sinuses.  CORN!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, therein lies the problem:  I don&#8217;t like creamed corn.  It&#8217;s better in pretzel\/bread stick form but not by much.  It&#8217;s so pervasively corn that it tastes like I just ate a bowl of corn chowder when the last Pretz I had was a good five minutes ago.  I am beginning to think that I&#8217;ll be tasting the remnants of corn from now until I brush or go eat a raw onion.  Glah!<\/p>\n<p>Other than the ubiquitous CORN, I found these Pretz noticeably saltier than other flavors.  CORN and salt are the two predominant flavors that I can taste and they are fighting for recognition rather than coexisting to make a happier, tastier Pretz experience.  I will say that they have flavor (CORN!) and seasoning so they are not wanting for depth of taste.<\/p>\n<p>As to texture, they live up to the smooth yet satisfyingly crunchy Pretz stick that I have come to know and love.  Pretz are slightly thinner than the American pretzel stick and have less or smaller air pockets so they seem much smoother and more dense.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I am all that impressed or even fond of Corn Pretz.  If offered at a party I would most likely pass them over for just about any other snack food.  They have the redeeming quality of being Pretz but I just can&#8217;t get over the CORN! flavor and they are just a tad saltier than I would like.  Of course, if you love creamed corn this snack may be for you but I gotta say-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?page_id=2\"><u>RATING<\/u><\/a> Out of a possible 5, I give Corn Pretz a rating of <strong>2 Wasabi Peas<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-peas","category-pretz","category-savory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}