Inspired by Linkbait, 'pretzels' suggested by Amanda.
1. As we are all aware, pretzels go particularly well with beer – a fact no one was more aware of than John A. Macdonald, first prime minister of Canada. So enamoured was he of the combination that he spent all of his campaign money on it and had to go begging a rail baron for enough funds to go on another bender.
2. Did Catherine de Medici mastermind the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre? Very probably. It is theorised that the Huguenot populations of France had a much readier supply of pretzels than the Catholics, a supply which she wished to secure. Perhaps then her sons would shut up.
3. Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s fourth wife, was a well-known proto-German whom Henry though to be ugly. As a good proto-German, Anne was very much fond of a fresh, hot pretzel and would eat them on any occasion, including in the marital bed. The complaint of ugliness was very much a pretext for the couple’s divorce. Henry simply could not stand the crumbs.
4. The Munsinger Affair is known as the sexiest political scandal in Canadian history, for no other such scandal featured Soviet spies seducing innocent young cabinet ministers. But how could the stalwart men of Diefenbaker’s cabinet be taken in so? Simple. The same cutbacks that cost us the Avro Arrow cut deeply into the government’s Pretzel Fund for Starving Orphans. Munsinger claimed that the shortfall could be found within her hotel room. They did it for the orphans.
5. Watergate: caused by a president consumed with lust for power? Or lust for pretzels?
The awesome power of pretzels. It is scarier than the thought of nuclear war.
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