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dough that learned yoga and got salt for its trouble.
means A glossy, salted baked snack made from dough twisted into a knotted loop, served either soft and chewy or hard and crisp.
from From German Brezel, which traces back through Old High German brezitella to a Latin word like bracchiatum, meaning 'having arms' — a nod to the way the dough's loops cross over each other like folded arms. The popular monastic story claims a medieval monk shaped leftover dough into the form of arms crossed in prayer to reward children, and while that legend is unverifiable, the 'arms' sense in the Latin root is real.
- monk origins
- Shaped by monks to mimic praying arms.
- three holes
- Said to represent the Holy Trinity.
- lye bath
- Caustic lye dip gives that brown shell.
- national day
- April 26 is National Pretzel Day.
- wedding knot
- Once tied the knot at Swiss marriages.
philadelphia pretzel factory — chain founded in 1986 that sells over 500,000 pretzels annually in philadelphia and beyond
bretzel de strasbourg — traditional alsatian pretzel from strasbourg, france with protected regional designation
bavarian pretzel — soft pretzel from bavaria, germany typically served with mustard at oktoberfest and beer halls