I’m trying to teach myself curves (after all this time with only meshes and subsurfs) and the obvious thought was pretzel:
Fake glassy:
I’ll yafray it when i’m done, so don’t comment on the texturing etc
Mmm… I won’t eat that 
Stefano
buy a pretzel and look at it carefully. does a pretzel look like that? no. but those are nice curves nevertheless. i could never get the hang of curves myself. 
I thought it looked odd just hanging there on it’s own, so I added a string:
bmax: what’s wring with it? do they twist the other way in the northern hemisphere or something? Seriously, what do you think a pretzel looks like?
Mmmmmm… Pretzels… But I’m NOT eating one that’s made out of glass. Looks like a good pretzel to me.
This is what they look like where i’m from (Pennsylvania):
Close enough, just one end going under when it should have gone over…
Makes modelling easier my way, it symmetrical
yea, thats what the look like over here too. yours doesnt. 