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In 1850, Julius Sturgis owned a bread business in Lititz. That year, he provided a homeless man with dinner. According to legend, the homeless man had been on a train that went behind the bread business, and got off the train after seeing the bakery to get food and a job; [5] however, Julius did not have a job available, but nonetheless fed the man.
According to the folks at Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery, Palatine German immigrants (now known as the Pennsylvania Dutch) brought pretzels with them to the New World as early as 1710. However, it ...
"Five generations of the Sturgis family have worked in the business and are still going strong," Kurt Van Gilden, general manager of the Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery, tells Yahoo Life. "The ...
It is unlikely the hobo story ever occurred. All bakers in the area were baking soft pretzels in 1850. The creation of the hard pretzel was more likely an accident of soft pretzels left in the ovens overnight. More likely, what Julius Sturgis contributed to the art was the commercialization of hard pretzels.
Pretzel Belt. The Pretzel Belt, or Pennsylvania Snack Belt, is a concentration of pretzel and snack food makers in the central southeastern region of Pennsylvania, roughly coterminous with Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1][2][3] The first commercial pretzel manufacturer in the United States, the Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery, was founded in the ...
1963. The record for the largest pretzel ever baked was baked by Joseph Nacchio of the Federal Pretzel Baking Company. It weighed 40 lb (18 kg) and measured five feet across. This record was repeated, with a 20 lb (9.1 kg) four-foot pretzel from Federal appearing in the 1963 Hollywood film production of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Hard pretzels originated in the United States, where, in 1850, the Sturgis bakery in Lititz, Pennsylvania, became the first commercial hard pretzel bakery. Snack food hard pretzels are made in the form of loops, braids, letters, little pretzels, or sticks around 3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 in) thick and 12 centimetres (5 in) long; they have become a ...
The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.91. In Lititz, the population was spread out, with 23.0% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 21.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years.