SOME FACTS ABOUT WAFFLES

One of the most beloved dishes !!!

• Waffles dates back to the middle ages, where they were cooked over a fire using two metal plates with wooden handles. The plates back then often had the grid pattern we know today, but some waffles had fancier designs, like a coat of arms.

• The earliest known recording of a waffle recipe is in an unknown person called Le Menagier de Paris, which was a set of instructions written by a Frenchman for his young wife.

• Even though we have proof that waffles may have appeared first in France, the word 'waffle' is a dutch word “wafer”.

• The biggest waffle ever made was almost 3 meters long

• Patrick Bertoletti is the current international champion for waffle eating, as well as a previous champion for the infamous Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and the Wing Bowl. He ate 29 waffles in 10 minutes (which I would like to think I could also do), beating out former champion Joey Chestnut in 2007. Chestnut had set the record for 23 waffles in 10 minutes the year before.