OK, Thanks MA, feeling much better now. Maybe they lace those pretzels with prozac, and so I've been mising my doses by avoiding the pretzels.

Really, tho, it does seem stange to me that UAL insists on serving a snack that is so, shall we say, unbland. I'll let you know what (if) UAL says to me about it (my communication with them was far more subdued than my rant here...)