> The story I heard was that pretzels were first baked by Italian monks as treats for their young students (pretziolo (?)= "little rewards" in Italian, so they claimed..) The shape of the pretzel is supposed to resemble the monk's arms folded in prayer.
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> koala"read this on the wrapper of soft pretzel bought in the mall, so it *must* be correct, right ? ;-) "mom
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I heard that the pretzel was designed to have three spaces, representing the Holy Trinity....
I suppose one story's as likely true as another.

Rabbit"I can do a cool pretzel-linking magic trick"lord