Eating Tour of Pennsylvania Dutch Country

I have lived in Philadelphia for 3 years and have never been anywhere else in PA other than the immediate outlying towns (and that was maybe 5 times total).  My friends, Missy, Dana and Lily have been stuck in Lancaster for various reasons for about 5 weeks and today I made my way out there to see them.  Lancaster is in the middle of PA Dutch country and has tons of Amish themed stores and villages and stuff. 

The first place that we went was to a donut shop called Fractured Prune (http://www.fracturedprune.com/) where they made fresh donuts in front of us to our exact specifications.  They have a variety of glazes and toppings to make unique donuts from.  We bought a box of 18 and tasted pieces of them all.  They were all really delicious but some of my favorites were the Elvis, banana glaze sprinkled with peanut butter chips, and one with maple glaze sprinkled with oreo crumbs. 

Our next stop was the Intercourse Pretzel Factory, where we went on the most incredibly boring tour ever and learned how to hand twist pretzels.  Intercourse is the actual name of a town.  Some other nearby towns are Virginville and Blue Balls.  At the Pretzel factory, we got a variety of soft pretzels (I still can't eat hard pretzels) and a few different kinds of mustard to dip in.  My favorite were the brown butter pretzels.  I mean, what's not to love about buttery pretzels?  After the pretzel factory, we went to Kettle Kitchens which is a store where they make and jar a variety of foods, all of which can be sampled.  They have probably about 30 flavors of Jelly, of which Mint was my favorite.  They also make a bunch of different kinds of pickles and these sweet, little pickled beets which were amazing.  Another item of note was the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter.  Amazing. 

The last stop on the eating tour was Sonic.  I know fast food isn't that exciting, but I grew up in East Hampton where we had to drive 30 minutes to the nearest McDonalds and I have never been to Sonic and also have never been to a carhop.  At Sonic, they have happy hour from 2-4 where you get half price drinks, which is what we went to get.  I had a Cherry Limeade milkshake thing which was really great.  I think if there was a Sonic near me, I might go to it for Cherry Limeade every day, just like Missy does.