Kids were visiting and wanted to make pretzels. We've made that recipe dozens of times while they were growing up. . . This time, many of the pretzels did not survive the gentle water bath, disintegrating into strips or blobs. So I assembled several strips dangling below one large blob, and after baking, posted a pic on Facebook with the caption "Apparently I captured and baked a baby Cthulhu" (apologies to H.P.Lovecraft).

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