Pretzel Salt

While some families pride themselves on their honor roll students or the size of their swimming pool, we secretly take pride in pretzel salt. As the designated pretzel jar accumulates the uneaten remnants of each bag, we observe changing pretzel-to-salt ratios within the micro-ecosystem of the jar. To increase our coveted stockpile, each dumped bag is shaken out thoroughly to transfer every last grain of salt. Mother, having never understood this experiment, once cleaned the jar out, just as we were reaching a one-to-three ratio. What horror and depression we felt at losing this testament to our collective culinary past.