{"id":232757,"date":"2026-07-01T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232757\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:44:07","slug":"how-a-pennsylvania-familys-baking-mistake-created-americas-iconic-hard-pretzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232757\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Pennsylvania family\u2019s baking mistake created America\u2019s iconic hard pretzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              FOX Business&#8217; Madison Alworth visits the Pennsylvania family bakery that accidentally invented the hard pretzel more than 165 years ago and is still making the iconic American snack five generations later.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">America\u2019s first hard pretzel bakers, Tom Sturgis Pretzels, has operated for 165 years in Reading, Pennsylvania. Bruce Sturgis, President, reveals how founder Julius Sturgis accidentally invented the snack in 1861, transforming a soft pretzel mistake into an enduring family business. General Manager Becky Schmaldienst explains their ongoing innovation, even creating new products from production &#8216;mistakes&#8217; today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX Business&#8217; Madison Alworth visits the Pennsylvania family bakery that accidentally invented the hard pretzel more than 165&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-232757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}