{"id":4903,"date":"2015-04-24T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/totally-twisted-pretzel-facts\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:02:29","slug":"totally-twisted-pretzel-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/totally-twisted-pretzel-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: 7 Totally Twisted Pretzel Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In terms of celebrations, National Pretzel Day (April 26th) is right up there with National Donut Day<\/a>, amiright? Both are holidays that celebrate curvy, carb-loaded snacks. However you’re choosing to celebrate this joyous, time-honored tradition though, we do hope you charm your friends with the totally twisted pretzel facts below, infused with our royalty-free stock images, of course. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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FACT #1: MONK-Y BUSINESS<\/h3>\n

European monks created the world’s first pretzels in medieval times.<\/p>\n

They used bits of leftover <\/span>dough, <\/span>and<\/span> twisted<\/span> them into shapes<\/span> representing a child’s arms in prayer. <\/span><\/p>\n

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FACT #2: GOOD LUCK WITH THAT<\/h3>\n

An old German tradition encourages children to tie pretzels on a string around their necks at the beginning of a new year.<\/p>\n

It is believed to bring prosperity, health, and good fortune in the year ahead.<\/p>\n

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FACT #3: A LOT OF DOUGH<\/h3>\n

According to Reuters.com, over $550 million worth of pretzels are sold in the United States every year.<\/p>\n

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FACT #4: BURNT OFFERINGS <\/h3>\n

The world’s first hard pretzel was an accident. <\/p>\n

A 17th century pretzel baker in Pennsylvania over-baked a batch … and ate them anyway.<\/p>\n

And, whaddaya know, he liked them. <\/p>\n

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FACT #5: THE COMMONWEALTH OF PRETZELVANIA <\/h3>\n

The average American gobbles up to two pounds of pretzels per year.<\/p>\n

Philadelphians, specifically, snack on about 12 pounds per person each year, leading the nation. <\/p>\n

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FACT #6: IN SNACKNESS AND IN HEALTH<\/h3>\n

The phrase “tying the knot” was coined by<\/span> our fine friends in<\/span> Switzerland<\/span>, who still seek to include<\/span> pretzels in their wedding ceremonies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FACT #7: A BIG TWIST <\/h3>\n

The largest pretzel ever baked weighed 40 lbs, and measured 5 ft across. <\/p>\n

It was created by Joe Nacchio of Federal Baking, Philadelphia, PA. Go Joe! (It’s not the one shown here, but this still looks pretty big<\/span>.) <\/span><\/p>\n

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And, for more twisted goodness, be sure to check out our very special <\/span>PretzelMania<\/em> collection below, filled with royalty-free photos of pretzels and the images used in our post. Enjoy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Header image by Bigstock contributor D<\/a>evon<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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In terms of celebrations, National Pretzel Day (April 26th) is right up there with National Donut Day, amiright? Both are holidays that celebrate curvy, carb-loaded snacks. However you’re choosing to celebrate this joyous, time-honored tradition though, we do hope you charm your friends with the totally twisted pretzel facts below, infused with our royalty-free stock images, of course. Enjoy. \u00a0…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[296,30,23,22],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-friday","tag-funny","tag-food-and-beverage","tag-food-photography","tag-holidays","col-sm-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcS8aA-1h5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7989,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}