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children at prayer. Even by a considerable stretch of the imagina­
tion it is hard to match a pretzel’s shape with the usual position of
arms at prayer. The pretzels soon became popular. The pretzels
were often given to children who were faithful in their religious
observations. As a result, the baked and salted dough came to be
called pretiola, the Latin for “little reward. ” From pretiola to pret­
zel is only a small step.

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