Pretzels and JWs

Nosferatu

I was just sitting here, admiring a bulk bag of pretzel twists sitting on the table and it sparked a memory. JWs aren't supposed to eat them. Remember that?

alt

I never heard that but it makes sense, since it was some monks who invented the pretzel as some sort of reward for kids who took communion or something...can't remember exactly what they had to do to get a pretzel. I know that all I have to do is drink a beer...and sure enough I reward myself with a bag 'o pretzels...couldn't live without 'em.

-BONEZZ

snowbird

The inside is supposed to picture Jesus hanging from the Cross, isn't it?

Sylvia

Odrade

LMAO! I had completely forgotten about that! My mom used to buy the pretzel "twigs" not the "twists." She said she read the twists were the 3 parts of the Trinity. Hahaha, crazy.

Nosferatu

I think I heard two different versions of it... The first one is it represents the Trinity. The second one is the shape has pagan origins. However, Pretzel STICKS are okay to eat.

abbagail

WOW, what decade was this rule/rumor/lie? Insanely hysterical.

I was in about 11 years ('79-90) and I don't EVER recall hearing ANYTHING about pretzels!

I guess every product or food on the planet that comes in three's is off limits to the dubs as well?

Next time JWs come knocking on everyone's door, we should offer them a bowl of twisted pretzels. Ha.

BurnTheShips

I never picked up the evil pretzel meme as a dub. I guess some segments of dubdom were more extreme than others. I believe pretzels were invented by monks and had a spiritual meaning. Also, I think champagne was invented at an abbey, does this make it part of Christendom too?

BTS

loosie

http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/Pretzel.htm

As early as 610AD at a monastery somewhere in Southern France or Northern Italy, where monks used scraps of dough and formed them into strips to represent a child's arms folded in prayer. The three empty holes represented the Christian Trinity.

The monks offered the warm, doughy bribe to children who had memorized their Bible verses and prayers. The monks called it a Pretiola, Latin for little reward. From there, the pretzel transformed into the Italian word, Brachiola, which means little arms.

loosie

I wonder if this shaped pretzel has any pagan origins

oompa

OK...this may be just nuts. I am a born in fourth generation and have never heard of this...me and my dad and grandpa always ate pretzels....show me something in WT print please...because that is all me and dad were ever taught to believe as the truth.........oompa

Pretzels and JWs

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