Pretzel

🥨 Pretzel is one of the prepared dishes in Unicode's Food & Drink group. It usually appears in messages about convoluted and twisted.

🥨 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. The character has been part of the standard since 2017 (Emoji 5.0). Its code point is U+1F968.

• A single 🥨 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about convoluted and twisted.
• Often seen near 🥯 Bagel, 🥖 Baguette Bread and 🫓 Flatbread.

The pretzel is rooted in southern Germany and Alsace and was probably first shaped in early medieval monasteries – the looped form is said to represent arms crossed in prayer. As the bakers’ guild sign it still hangs over bakeries today.

In Bavaria the lye pretzel belongs to the Brotzeit; in Swabia it is baked differently and called something else. In the United States it became mainly a hard, salted snack – the same shape, an entirely different food.

• 🥨🥓 – Pretzel and Bacon
• 🥨🍗 – Pretzel with Poultry Leg
• 🥨🥐 – Pretzel plus Croissant
• 🥨🥯 – Pretzel and Bagel
• 🥨🧇 – Pretzel with Waffle
• 🥨🥖 – Pretzel plus Baguette Bread
• 🥨🍞 – Pretzel and Bread
• 🥨🫓 – Pretzel with Flatbread

Easy to mix up with 🥯 Bagel, 🥖 Baguette Bread or 🫓 Flatbread. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.