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In 1428 the great Italian baker, Antonio Garibaldi (often confused with the 19th C freedom fighter Giuseppi Garibaldi was given by the Sultan of all the Turks, Abdul II (Abdul the Devious) several tonnes of raisins (known in Turkey as Sultanas) as a reward for helping him with an embarrassing situation involving a baguette, several pounds of butter and a filthy Frenchman who had snuck into his harem to commit horrible acts of poor bodily hygiene...or something like that....anyway..Antonio, seeing this big pile of raisins and ignorant of the honour being bestowed on him, instead of thanking Abdul II he punched a eunuch and screamed: "watta the bollocks ees I gonna do wid all dese raisins?...where's the chuffin' gold!"...In frustration he stamped on a cardboard box full of raisins, squashing

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  • In 1428 the great Italian baker, Antonio Garibaldi (often confused with the 19th C freedom fighter Giuseppi Garibaldi was given by the Sultan of all the Turks, Abdul II (Abdul the Devious) several tonnes of raisins (known in Turkey as Sultanas) as a reward for helping him with an embarrassing situation involving a baguette, several pounds of butter and a filthy Frenchman who had snuck into his harem to commit horrible acts of poor bodily hygiene...or something like that....anyway..Antonio, seeing this big pile of raisins and ignorant of the honour being bestowed on him, instead of thanking Abdul II he punched a eunuch and screamed: "watta the bollocks ees I gonna do wid all dese raisins?...where's the chuffin' gold!"...In frustration he stamped on a cardboard box full of raisins, squashing
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  • In 1428 the great Italian baker, Antonio Garibaldi (often confused with the 19th C freedom fighter Giuseppi Garibaldi was given by the Sultan of all the Turks, Abdul II (Abdul the Devious) several tonnes of raisins (known in Turkey as Sultanas) as a reward for helping him with an embarrassing situation involving a baguette, several pounds of butter and a filthy Frenchman who had snuck into his harem to commit horrible acts of poor bodily hygiene...or something like that....anyway..Antonio, seeing this big pile of raisins and ignorant of the honour being bestowed on him, instead of thanking Abdul II he punched a eunuch and screamed: "watta the bollocks ees I gonna do wid all dese raisins?...where's the chuffin' gold!"...In frustration he stamped on a cardboard box full of raisins, squashing it flat. The resulting sandwich of cardboard of raisins stuck firmly to Antonio's left foot. Abdul, furious at this ingratitude of this flourery upstart ordered Antonio Garibaldi to be deep fried. As the Sultan's executioners removed Antonio's corpse from the boiling oil and laid it on a large wad of kitchen towel to drain, one of them noticed the cardboard raisin sandwich and, thinking it looked tasty, had a bite. The biscuit became popular across the whole of the Ottoman Empire and continued to be made with raisins and cardboard until the Siege of Scrotum, 1747. The defenders, having used all their cardboard making signs to abuse the Austrian enemy resorted to using flour and water to make a pastry. This drastically improved the flavour and digestibility of the biscuit and it was around this time that the biscuit started to be baked rather than deep fried. The victorious Austrian troops took the biscuit as plunder back to that capital of confectionery, Vienna where it became popular among the chattering classes.
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