1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Happy Saturday. It is National Waffle Day in the United States, 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: commemorating the first US patent on a waffle iron that 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: was issued August twenty fourth, eighteen sixty nine. There are 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: also other days observed as Waffle Day, including March twenty 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: fifth in some parts of the world. So our episode 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: on waffles is Today's Saturday Classic. This originally came out 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: December ninth, twenty twenty. Enjoy Welcome to Stuff You Missed 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio. Hello, and welcome 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Holly Frye and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. 10 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to make a confession right up front here. 11 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: I cannot resist the call of the novelty waffle iron. 12 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 1: You can't. I buy them that I don't need. I 13 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: love them. And that's actually how I became interested in waffles. 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: I before I started buying things that would help me 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: make death Star waffles, I would have told you I 16 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: was a pancake person. I think just because I grew 17 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: up with pancakes well, and you can also make pancakes 18 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: in fun shapes with little pancake molds. That's true, although 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: you don't usually get the same level of detail, but 20 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: both utterly delicious and I thought, you know, twenty twenty 21 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: has been a weird year, let's throw in more fun episodes, 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: and waffle seemed like a good one. Waffles are, of 23 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: course very popular and quite commonplace on tables and as 24 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: a street food around the world, but they've evolved a 25 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: whole lot over time to become the syrup vehicle that 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: most of us think of the mass. So today we're 27 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: going to take a peek at the waffles origins and 28 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: the various iterations of dough or batter cooked between two 29 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: hot plates. Humankind has been figuring out how to make 30 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: hot cakes really for millennia. All kinds of pulpy compositions 31 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: ground grains cooked on hot rocks go all the way 32 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: back to the Neolithic Age. There is evidence the flat 33 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: hot cakes made for cereal grains flipped to ensure cooking 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: on both sides during this time and really various cultures 35 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: all around the globe. Yeah, the waffle history, as we'll 36 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: talk about it, is largely you know, European to develop 37 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: what we think of, but like everybody was figuring out 38 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: how to cook with grains and you know, sometimes a 39 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: little water and make paste that could make a little 40 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: flat cake with the iron age. Starting in twelve hundred BCE, 41 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: cooking of course shifted as new tools were developed, including 42 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: cooking plates precursors you could think of them to the 43 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: modern day griddle, and people started cooking their flat cakes 44 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: on those instead of rocks. And sometimes they would even 45 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: heat two iron plates and then press batter between them 46 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: for fast and even cooking. So you can see how 47 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 1: that's very much like a waffle, just in a rudimentary 48 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: kind of version. I also like the part of history 49 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: where we got the upgrade of going from cooking stuff 50 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: on rocks to cooking stuff on surface made for cooking. Yes, 51 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: and also that we were like, let's mush them together 52 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: and see what that makes. The first iteration of what 53 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: would eventually evolve into what we would recognize as a 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: waffle was called oblios, and these cakes were first seen 55 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 1: in ancient Greece. And these oblios are sort of proto 56 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: waffles because they were cooked in between two metal plates. 57 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: They weren't really sweet, they were kind of like a flat, 58 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: really simple cake, but the plates that were used to 59 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: make them did often have designs on them. You can 60 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: see pictures of some of these kind of lacy designs. 61 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: In some cases, yeah, they're very pretty. I will say this, 62 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: oblios is an interesting word because you will just as 63 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: often see it in relation to waffle history, where the 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: L and the e have been transposed, So it's like obelios. Uh. 65 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: I think someone made that switch somewhere along the line 66 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: and it has propagated in both ways ever since. So 67 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: if you're ever looking at a thing and it's different, 68 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: that's why I went with the oblio's version. Because the 69 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: next word that we're going to talk about seems like 70 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: a pretty obvious transition from that word, which is ubli, 71 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: which that word evolved into over time as these flat 72 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: cakes spread throughout other cultures in Europe, and ubli is 73 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 1: a French word, and that spread was in large part 74 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: because the Catholic Church adopted these ubli as part of 75 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: religious rituals and events. So to be clear, these were 76 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: not a replacement for communion wafers, although the name ubli 77 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: does mean wafers in French. But instead they were kind 78 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: of another edible item that could be included in warships. 79 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: So often it was the finish to a meal with 80 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: religious significance, or they were served at the end of 81 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: a religious service. Ubli were made by specialists called oblo yure, 82 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: who became experts at using two metal plates to cook batter, 83 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: and this batter was off made with flour, a little 84 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: bit of salt and wine instead of water. Ubili became 85 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: established as a street food, as these specialists would wait 86 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: outside of churches to sell their wares to members of 87 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: the congregation as they left, particularly on Saint's Days and 88 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: other important religious days. These again weren't sweet. They were 89 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: savory ubili, which were often pretty large and seasoned with herbs. 90 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes they would be rolled into a cone shape to 91 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: make them easier to carry home. Yeah. I heard one 92 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: description or read one description where they were talking about 93 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: how they were big. They were like the size of 94 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: a pizza, and I was like, I suppose they're probably 95 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: in some ways a relative, right. It's a large, big 96 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: thing that has some herbs sprinkled on it, but of 97 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: course branching branching trees. Again, there's no butter or syrup 98 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: in sight here. These were still very simple in terms 99 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: of ingredients and they were usually made with barleyer oat flour, 100 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: but the designs started to get really ornate in medieval Europe. 101 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: Some of these designs mimicked the patterns of stained glass, 102 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 1: others recreated heraldry, and there were sometimes even more detailed scenes, 103 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: such as landscapes or even depictions of biblical stories. In 104 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: the twelve hundreds we also start to see early hints 105 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: of the waffle pattern developing. The old French word waffla 106 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: referred to a piece of honey beehive, and as these 107 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: honeycomb patterned flat cakes started to become popular, they were 108 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: called gofre. This is a French word for waffle that 109 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: was derived from the old French waffla, and at this 110 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 1: point in Europe, regardless of the design, waffles had to 111 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: be held over a fire to be baked, so there 112 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: was a degree of danger in their preparation. The usage 113 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: of the word waffle, we should note, also has roots 114 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: in other languages. There's waffle in Dutch, which just has 115 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: one f. There's weffin which means weave in Old English, 116 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: and there is vaba in Old High German. Yeah, you'll 117 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: see all of those words sometimes noted as the the 118 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: root word for waffle, but all of those languages are 119 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: kind of being passed around and related and as street 120 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 1: vending of waffles in France became more competitive. Things also 121 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: got a bit contentious. By the time King Charles, the 122 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: ninth son of Catherine de Medici was ruling in the 123 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: late fifteen hundreds, this problem had escalated to such a 124 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: degree that the monarch actually had to make business regulations 125 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: to try to control the situation and picturing fabulous oublier 126 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: and waffle fist fights. The main regulation that he came 127 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: up with, coincidentally was very similar to the social distancing 128 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: rule we've been facing in pandemic Vendors had to stay 129 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: six feet apart. The competitive nature of selling gophro was 130 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: driven by this massive level of popularity. Of course, waffles 131 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: crossed all socioeconomic lines, in part because they were so adaptable. 132 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: The wealthiest levels of society enjoyed much flakier versions that 133 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: were made with egg and sometimes even sweetened with honey, 134 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: and then poorer classes had access to versions made with 135 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: lesser quality flowers and water without any of the ingredients 136 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: that would really make them into a crispy or fluffy delicacy. 137 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: North America was introduced to the Dutch waffles with one 138 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: f thanks to colonists who immigrated in the early decades 139 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: of the sixteen hundreds for expectations management here, because I 140 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: know people are already thinking it stroop waffles were not 141 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: invented yet. Were going to come back to that, but 142 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: it does seem like at least some of these Dutch 143 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: waffles were definitely intended to be sweet rather than savory. 144 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: In the book Colonial Days in Old New York, written 145 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: by Alice Morse Earl in eighteen ninety six, there's a 146 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: description of what the author calls a Dutch uma from 147 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: the seventeenth century, which was a sifter used to sprinkle 148 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: cinnamon and sugar on freshly made waffles. In seventeen twenty five, 149 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: Robert Smith published the book Buckle Up for this name 150 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: Court Cookery, The Complete English cook containing the choicest and 151 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: newest receipts for making soups, pottages, frickaseas, harshes, farces, ragus, cullises, sauces, 152 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: forced meats and souses, with various ways of dressing most 153 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: sorts of flesh, fish and fowl, wild and tame, with 154 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: the best methods of potting, collaring and pickling. As likewise 155 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: of pastes, pies, pasties, patties, puddings, tansies, biscuits, creams, cheesecakes, florindines, cakes, jellies, 156 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: syllabubs and custards. Also of candy making and preserving, with 157 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: a bill of fare for every month in the year, 158 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: and the latest improvements in cookery, pastry, et cetera. Whush, 159 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: there's a lot of words. This heavily titled tome, published 160 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: in London, offers the first instance of the word waffle 161 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: included in English language print, and the recipe that Smith 162 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: included for waffles is as follows. Quote take flour, cream sack, nutmeg, sugar, eggs, 163 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: yeast of what quantity you will mix these to a 164 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: batter and let them stand to rise. Then add a 165 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: little melted butter and bake one to try. If they burn, 166 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: add more butter. Melt butter with sac refined sugar and 167 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: orange flour water for the sauce. Uh sack in this 168 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: instance refers to cooking sherry. If you had not heard 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: that term before, I like that. The solution to the 170 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: I give you no measurements recipe if it doesn't work 171 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: is just keep adding butter, keep putting more butter in there. Yeah. 172 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: So this base recipe has sugar and while Smith's book 173 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: also offers a really yummy sounding syrup recipe. Waffles were 174 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: also seen as a companion starts to savory entrees, so 175 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: you might make a waffle and then ladle a stew 176 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: on top of it, for example, Yummy, I love a 177 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: savory waffle. I'd eat that. Yeah. Nine years later, in 178 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: seventeen thirty four, a recipe for a Dutch waffle, in 179 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: this case called a Dutch wafer, appeared in a cookbook 180 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: by Mary Kettleby. This book is titled a Collection of 181 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: above three hundred Receipts in Cookery, physic and Surgery for 182 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses. 183 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: And this recipe for what Kettleby called the right Dutch 184 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: Wafer shows the difference in the Dutch style waffle of 185 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: the time as being sweeter. It says, take four eggs 186 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: and beat them very well, and then take a good 187 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: spoonful of fine sugar, one nutmeg grated, a pint of cream, 188 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: and a pound of flour, a pound of butter melted, 189 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: two or three spoonfuls of rose water, and two good 190 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: spoonfuls of yeast. Mix all well together and bake them 191 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: in your wafer tongs on the fire. For the sauce, 192 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 1: take grated cinnamon sack and melted butter, sweetened to your 193 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: taste delicious. We are going to talk more about waffle 194 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 1: irons in a moment, which was mentioned in that recipe, 195 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: but for we are going to pause for a little 196 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: sponsor break. We mentioned right before the break in that 197 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: recipe that Tracy read, uh, wafer tongs and waffle irons 198 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: by this point did indeed look sort of like large 199 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: tongs with a hinge near the two cooking plates, and 200 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: then long handles sometimes you know, a couple feet long. 201 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: These irons would have been used in an open hearts 202 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: so those long handles enabled the cook to fill the 203 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: base plate with batter, shut the iron, and then push 204 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: it into the open flame for cooking without risking their 205 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: person getting too close or up into the flame. And 206 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: as kitchens transitioned to wood stoves, those handles became shorter 207 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: and the waffle iron started to be placed on top 208 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: of the stove to cook instead of directly into a fire. 209 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: The first waffle iron in the US is often cited 210 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,479 Speaker 1: as arriving in seventeen eighty nine thanks to Thomas Jefferson. 211 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: He had been Minister to France from seventeen eighty five 212 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: up until he left in seventeen eighty nine, that being 213 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: hastened by the start of the French Revolution, and he 214 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 1: brought back two pieces of cooking tech from Europe. There 215 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: was a pasta maker and a hinged, long handled waffle iron. However, 216 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: this was not the first waffle iron to cross the Atlantic. No, 217 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: he gets credit, and he may have caused a surge 218 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: in popularity, but there were already waffle irons here. We 219 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: know this because well before Jefferson is said to have 220 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: brought his waffle iron to the States, and in fact 221 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: before the colonies gained independence from England, waffle frolics were 222 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: popular among the colonists. In seventeen forty four, what sounds 223 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: like an especially frolic laden and perhaps risky waffle frolic 224 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 1: in New York was described in a letter by twenty 225 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: one year old William Livingston, written to a Miss E 226 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: t and dated November seventeenth of that year. Here's what 227 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: it says. Quote, we had the waffle frolic at Miss 228 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: Walton's talked of before your departure. The feast as usual 229 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: was preceded by cards, and the company so numerous that 230 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: they filled two tables. After a few games, a magnificent 231 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: supper appeared in grand order in decorum. But for my part, 232 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: I was not a little grieved that so luxurious a 233 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: feast should come under the name of a waffle frolic, 234 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: because if this be the case, I must expect but 235 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: a few waffle frolics for the future. The frolic was 236 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: closed up with ten sunburnt virgins lately come from Columbus's Newfoundland. 237 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: Besides a play of my own invention, which I have 238 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: not room enough to describe at present, However, kissing constitutes 239 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: a great part of its entertainment. Livingston, in case you 240 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: don't recognize that name, went on to become the Governor 241 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: of New Jersey and was one of the signers of 242 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: the US Constitution. That mention of virgins from Columbus's Newfoundland 243 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: maybe referring to indigenous women. That, of course, adds a 244 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: potentially rather unpleasant layer to this story. In sweeter developments, though, 245 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: in the city of Gudha, the Netherlands, the first Stroup 246 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: waffles are made in the early eighteen hundreds, and if 247 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: you have had these you know, they are made to 248 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: resemble breakfast waffles, but they're really kind of a cross 249 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: between a waffle and a cookie. They're made of a 250 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: dough that is pressed in an iron, and the story 251 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: goes that they were created when a baker combined syrup 252 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: and breadcrumbs together and then pressed them. These little waffle 253 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: cousins are normally either cooked or sliced to be very 254 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: very thin, and then layered like a sandwich with a 255 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: caramel syrup filling, and they are delicious. On August twenty fourth, 256 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty nine, the first waffle iron patent in the 257 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: United States was issued, which is US Patent number ninety 258 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: four thousand and forty three. It was granted to a 259 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: man named Cornelius Swarthout. You'll see his name spelled a 260 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: few different names. We're going with that one because I 261 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: think it's the easiest to pronounce. And this was given 262 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: for what he called an improvement on waffle irons that 263 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: he developed in his home in Troy, New York. So 264 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: this iron had a very heavy base with the bottom 265 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: waffle textured plate mounted on it, and then another plate 266 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: that sat on top affixed with a hinge. So the 267 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: waffle iron could open, have the batter poured in, and 268 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: then could flip so each side like within the thing, 269 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: It could flip so that each side would get time 270 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: close to the hot surface of the stove, and then 271 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: a finished, evenly cooked waffle could be removed. The main 272 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: improvement that was made here was the inclusion of a 273 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: handle and a clasp to make flipping the plates a 274 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: lot safer and easier. You couldn't mismatch the plate line up, 275 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: there was less of a risk of burns. Swarthout described 276 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: it like this quote. The nature of my invention consists 277 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: in providing a handle connected with and forming part of 278 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: a waffle iron, by means of which the same may 279 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: be readily turned over without danger of slipping, and without 280 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: the possibility of burning the hand. It also consists in 281 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: providing a device by means of which the upper or 282 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 1: covering portion of a waffle iron may be raised so 283 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: as to expose it was the interior for filling or 284 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: for removing the waffle wind done without the danger of 285 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: the cover slipping back, and without burning the hand. That 286 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: description probably sounds a lot like a waffle iron you 287 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: have used, or you might use today, And it really 288 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 1: does look pretty familiar. But of course, homes did not 289 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: have electricity in eighteen sixty nine, and this waffle iron 290 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: still had to be placed on a heat source. So, 291 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: as we said, it was intended to sit on a stovetop. 292 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: And over the next several decades, this basic type of 293 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: waffle iron worked so well and was so popular that 294 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: it was widely produced for home use. Waffle frolics or 295 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: waffle parties had continued to be popular right through the 296 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: nineteenth century and then into the twentieth. In a nineteen 297 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: oh seven book titled Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions, 298 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: author Paul Pierce lays out a detailed plan for hosting 299 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: a perfect waffle party. And while this is built as 300 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: a perfect way to host a party for an apartment 301 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: dweller without a big kitchen, it's really no simple affair 302 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: at all. No, there's so many steps, and Pierce's perfect 303 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: waffle party instructions star wars some pretty involved invitations. Quote 304 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,239 Speaker 1: of cream white satin fashioned in the exact shape and 305 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: size of a waffle section, padded with white cotton wadding 306 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: and tacked to simulate the meeting place of the irons. 307 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: They are then scorched the right color with a hot 308 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: iron and on them is printed in sepia tints. Come 309 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: and eat me. The date and address details are printed 310 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: on the reverse. I don't know why that struck me 311 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: as fun. It's a very involved invitation and also again 312 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: a little riskye by the way, this perfect party plan 313 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 1: also includes the printing of a quote much praised recipe 314 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: for waffles to be placed at each guest's spot, and 315 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: then the hosts assigns a utensil to each guest and 316 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: they complete the recipe assembly line style as a team. 317 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: Then the guests are seated with teams of two pouring 318 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: the bat and monitoring the cooking on a rotating basis 319 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: while other courses, including veal, are served. The doors to 320 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: the kitchen are to be propped open throughout all this 321 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: so that the teams minding the waffle cooking in the 322 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: kitchen do not feel left out. It's a cute little 323 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: instruction for how to make a fun party with waffles. 324 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: I would do it. I'm not making those complex invites though, 325 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: I'm not quilting a bunch of satin into waffles. But 326 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: the first electrical waffle iron was produced in the early 327 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, and it is believed that the Simplex Electrical 328 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: Company was the first to make one. This Boston, Massachusetts 329 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: manufacturer created an iron that made circular waffles, but the 330 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 1: unit itself was rectangular. It had a front row of 331 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: plates that folded onto the back row to create the 332 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: closed cooking surface. This in write up sounds like it 333 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: was not really a safe product. The regulations around electrical 334 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: appliances that are in place today, for example, did not 335 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: yet exist, so like during the flipping, there were like 336 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: electrical contacts that would be exposed. But we should say 337 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: that Simplex did go on to make other safer models though, 338 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 1: and General Electric usually gets the credit for making the 339 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: first electrical waffle iron, which the company did in nineteen eleven, 340 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: designed by Thomas J. Stackbeck, but this was really a prototype. 341 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: The company did not start production of waffle irons to 342 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: sell for home use until the late nineteen teens. Waffle 343 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: popularity continued to grow in the US in the early 344 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: half of the twentieth century, so much so that manufacturers 345 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: started making waffle irons that were meant to be visually 346 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: pleasing as well as functional, so they could be used 347 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: right at the table and they would fit into the 348 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 1: rest of the china and tablewear and be just as 349 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: pretty as anything else. Some of these had decorated porcelain 350 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: exteriors and they were sold with breakfast sets that included 351 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: coffee service as well as various specialized bowls to include batter. 352 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: You could pour that right into the iron by the 353 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: person who was being served, so you would get a fresh, 354 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: hot waffle. There were all kinds of interesting waffle developments 355 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: from the nineteen thirties on. We will talk about them 356 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: after we hear from the sponsors who keep our show going. 357 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty eight, Well Supper Club opened in Harlem, 358 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: New York, and it catered to the musician crowd, staying 359 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: open late into the night. The story goes that because 360 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: a lot of their clientele was getting there too late 361 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: for dinner and too early for breakfast, the two meals 362 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,479 Speaker 1: found a crossover in fried chicken and waffles, which has 363 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: since become popular around the country. I will also say this, 364 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: you will see it kind of casually referenced as something 365 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 1: that developed as a cast off food from waffle parties 366 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: were combined by people who were either enslaved or were 367 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: working as service staff in homes, but that's not really 368 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: well documented. This we know definitely happened. Also, chicken and 369 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: waffles to live. In nineteen fifty three, the first frozen 370 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: waffles called fraffles were introduced by three brothers. They were Tony, 371 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: Sam and Frank Dorsa. These frozen waffles were the third 372 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: invention of the Dorsa brothers, and they had also created 373 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: a mayonnaise and a dry waffle mix, and they were 374 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: doing that under the name Ego. Because of the egg 375 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: content in the mayonnaise, most people started calling the froffles 376 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: by the name Eggos, which the Dorses just adopted as 377 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: the new product name. The Eggo Company was bought by 378 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: Kellogg's in the early nineteen seventies and now produces a 379 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: vast array of waffles and other frozen breakfast products that's 380 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: still going. The Belgian waffle might surprise you in how 381 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: late it joins this story. In nineteen sixty four, at 382 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: the World's Faring Queens, New York, Maurice Vermersh and his 383 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: family set up a waffle booth in the Belgian Village Pavilion. 384 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: Their booth signage read Brussels Waffles, a bell gem product 385 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: that's b e l dash Gem. Vermersh's waffles were light 386 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: and fluffy, crisp on the outside, and then they would 387 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: melt in your mouth. Visitors to the expo could buy 388 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: them plane or with a little bit of whipped cream 389 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: and fresh strawberry slices. This was actually not their real introduction. 390 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: Vermersh had sold them at a smaller booth at the 391 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: Seattle World's Fair two years earlier to kind of test 392 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: the waters. But this treat took off in New York 393 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: and so that's usually noted as the birth of the 394 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: Belgian waffles popularity. To most of the customers, this pastry 395 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: was just a revelation. The waffles that were normally served 396 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: in the US were a lot heavier. They tended to 397 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: be topped with a bunch of syrup and butter. Charging 398 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: a dollar per waffle. The Vermershas needed to keep two 399 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: dozen waffle irons going and have ten people come help 400 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: them slice strawberries just to keep up with the orders. Yeah, 401 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: it's one of those things that gets listed, is like 402 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: one of the most popular things at the World's Fair 403 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: that year. Maurice Vermersh did notice, however, that a lot 404 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: of people didn't understand why they were called Brussels waffles. 405 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: They didn't really get that his version of waffles was 406 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: a family recipe developed from a regional style in Belgium. 407 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: So he just started calling them Belgian waffles and that 408 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: was easy to understand and caught on with customers. Over time, 409 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: the Belgian waffle, which he did not keep control of 410 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 1: as a name, evolved to be more like the waffles 411 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: that US customers had already been eating, and it got 412 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,719 Speaker 1: farther and farther away from this handheld street food that 413 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: Vermersh had sold. Today, a Belgian waffle has deep, deep 414 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: pockets in its waffle texture to hold a lot of 415 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: butter and toppings. And it's a huge departure from the 416 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: idea that they're supposed to be so delicious and simple 417 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: on their own that they need few, if any accouterment. 418 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: You would be hard pressed to carry most restaurant dishes 419 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: that are described as Belgian waffles around with you as 420 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: you walk. Yeah, keep in mind they're actually supposed to 421 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: be a handheld food. There is we should mention another 422 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: popular type of waffle that hails from Belgium. It is 423 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: a very different texture in flavor. This is the Liga. 424 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: It's named after Liga Belgium. Aliga is denser and chewier, 425 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: and this version of a waffle, according to legend, has 426 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: been around since the Middle Ages, though it's only been 427 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: documented since the early nineteenth century. They are made with 428 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: pearl sugar, which comes in these dense clumps, and they 429 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: don't dissolve into the batter. Instead, pieces of pearl sugar 430 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: caramelize into sweet bits throughout the waffle. Waffles have also 431 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: inspired innovation in non gastronomic areas. When Bill Bauerman, who 432 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: was a track coach at the University of Oregon, applied 433 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: for a patent for a shoe where the quote sole 434 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: has short, multi sided, polygon shaped studs which provide gripping 435 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: edges that give greatly improved traction. It used a waffle 436 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: iron to cast the textured soul. This gave birth to 437 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: the Nike Company, and that shoe is part of the 438 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 1: collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Can 439 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: also find it online if you just search Nike waffle trainer. Yeah. 440 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: In the US, August twenty fourth is National Waffle Day. 441 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 1: That is the day that Cornelias swore that out was 442 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: granted his patent. International Waffle Day is March twenty fifth, 443 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: and if that's not enough waffle holiday action, you can 444 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: also celebrate National Waffle Iron Day on June twenty ninth. 445 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 1: And of course, there's a whole world of pastries that 446 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: share culinary DNA with waffles that we have not even 447 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: touched on here, like the Italian pitzele or the Middle 448 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: Eastern jidebi, and both of those are deep fried. There's 449 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: also Irish style waffles which have a really crispy texture, 450 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,360 Speaker 1: and Korean style which are really heavy on the dessert 451 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: type toppings. Also a range of savory waffles to really 452 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: match any palette or preference. Also some things that have 453 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: nothing to do with waffles that people describe my best 454 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: sort of insert nationality here waffle like okonoma yaki, which 455 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: is just not a thing that's like waffle in any way, 456 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: but sometimes people call them Japanese waffles. Right yeah, uh yeah. 457 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: Waffles are international and have been adapted in a million 458 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: different ways. They're also like super fun different ways that 459 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: restaurants and chefs like to make their own twists on waffles. Yeah, 460 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: I want to host a waffle frolic. I did have 461 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: a funny thing where I was doing Google searches for 462 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: waffle Frolic and there's apparently a restaurant in Ithaca named 463 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: waffle Frolic YEP, which I would love to go to 464 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,919 Speaker 1: just for the name. Uh yeah, when you mentioned waffle 465 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 1: Frolic to me while you were working on this, I 466 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: kind of went down a whole waffle Frolic rabbit hole 467 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: because I was like, you know, slang changes over time, yeah, 468 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: and if like if I read a whole book series 469 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: that was set in the nineteen twenties and there was 470 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: slang in it that I had never heard before at all, 471 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: and I was like, does this mean something different than 472 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,719 Speaker 1: we listen? After all of those riskue hints, I started 473 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: to wonder if waffle Frolic wasn't code. But it sounds 474 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: like just a delicious party. 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