Today's Groupon Deal The Ultimate Pretzel Company 50% off (Purchase $30 worth for $15)

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• Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Shipping not included for online orders. Redeemable starting 3/5/10 at 12 p.m.

• The pretzel is a metaphor for life: it's full of twists and turns and ends where it begins, but a bit of chocolate makes it infinitely better. Today’s Groupon celebrates chocolate’s soothing properties. For $15, you get $30 worth of gourmet pretzels and pretzel treats at The Ultimate Pretzel Company in Brighton.

Details: • When Lynn Kughn founded The Ultimate Pretzel Company five years ago, it was a kitchen-based operation that hand-dipped pretzel rods in caramel, rice krispies, and chocolate. While her neighbor’s chocolate-dipped-cucumber business languished, The Ultimate Pretzel Company has since expanded into a thriving online operation that dishes out delectable treats to sugar-craving patrons and donates a portion of its proceeds to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Like a beaker-toting scientist obsessed with animating chocolate-pretzel hybrids, Lynn has developed several treats in addition to her signature pretzel sticks.

• Try a few round peanut-butter pretzel bites ($3.50 per 2 oz. package); a caramel-dipped festiva gourmet rod rolled in roasted walnuts, raisins, coconut, and dried cherries ($2); or the bite-sized chocolate chomps of tots and their coffee-infused café counterparts (4 oz. for $4, 8 oz. for $7). Gift packages such as The Explorer provide a varied sampling of 4-oz. packages such as tots, cafés, twigs, mini twists, and mini twists with toffee ($22). Most treats come in different sizes and can be paired with gourmet or white chocolate to produce personalized pretzel prezzies for particularly particular people.

• Unlike tasting Aunt Gladys’s questionable tofu-based dessert calzones, sampling a complex fusion of flavors doesn’t have to be a burdensome affair. Stock up on gourmet snacks guilt-free with today's charitably twisted deal to The Ultimate Pretzel Company.

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