As we continue to celebrate Easter (The Great Fifty Days beginning on Easter Day and ending on the Day of Pentecost), a few daily pretzel factoids that didn't make my Easter Children's Sermon.
In Austria, signs outside many bakeries depict a lion holding a pretzel-shaped shield. According to a legend that dates to 1510, pretzel bakers working before dawn heard Ottoman Turks tunneling under Vienna's city walls and then sounded an alarm. The city was saved, and the bakers were awarded their unique coat of arms by the Viennese king.
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