Welcome to the Julius Sturgis Pretzel Factory in Lititz, PA. We went while we were home and oh my goodness... super fun. It was Eric and I along with a bunch of grade school kids learning how to roll pretzels. Believe it or not this Lititz Pretzel Bakery is the first of it's kind... ever. Pretzels have a long history... leftovers from making bread were made into soft pretzels by monks who were trying to teach orphan children about prayer. (folded arms of a pretzel) Apparently soft pretzels then became a hot commodity with all those german folk who brought the tradition to PA. Some guy, Julius Sturgis, was working in one such german pretzel bakery in Lititz and tried one of the "burnt pretzels" and thought they were mighty tasty. He thinned down the dough to thinner strips to the bite size snack we have now and took them to his boss thinking he was about to make it big. The boss laughed him out of his office so Sturgis left and started making his own in a bakery he made himself in the back of his house where wife and 14 children also lived. The rest is well pretzel history you might say...
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