Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

I'm going to make a confession right up front here.

I cannot resist the call of the novelty waffle iron.

I can't.

I buy them that I don't need.

I love them.

And that's actually how I became interested in waffles.

I, um, the before I started buying things that would help me make death star waffles,

I would have told you I was a pancake person.

I think just because I grew up with pancakes, well, and you can also make pancakes in fun

shapes with little pancake molds.

That's true.

Although you don't usually get the same level of detail, but, um, both utterly delicious.

And I thought, you know, 2020 has been a weird year.

Let's throw in more fun episodes and waffles seemed like a good one.

Waffles are of course very popular and quite commonplace on tables and is a street food

around the world, but they've evolved a whole lot over time to become the syrup vehicles

at most of us think of the mass.

So today we're going to take a peek at the waffles origins and the various iterations of

dough or batter cooked between two hot plates.

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