I know the internet is a hotbed of intellectual hackery. You do too. But it’s not until you look up an odd search item like “pretzel trivia” or “pretzel origins” that you find out what a circle jerk this world wide collection of click bait mad deviants are; copy and paste or just shift a word here and there to buttress some hint of plausible deniability against charges of plagiarism.
If I might imitate with a complete lack of self awareness the hacks I hold in contempt by stealing a word - the ultimate hapax legomenon if its use as an example of the concept seems to show - from Melville, use of the phrase or some variant upon “German immigrants, now known as the Pennsylvania Dutch,” is ubiquitous among the literature of the pretzel cognoscenti.