Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1918 — Nothing Doing. [ARTICLE]

Nothing Doing.

Don’t twist your tongue, to say pretzel in Indianapolis dairy lunchrooms, as the girls working at the counters have put a ban on the word. Patrons of a dairy lunch In East Washington street, who have been accustomed to ordering coffee and a “pretzel,” are being admonished by the counter “men” to say tea ring. “You’re an American, aren’t you?" the girls say. ‘You have seen on the movie screens what the Germans are and what they have been doing, haven’t you? Then, don’t say pretzel, because it’s German and no German goes in here.” —Indianapolis News.