So I like waffles, especially with a side of cheesy scrambled eggs and some sausage. But when I started researching this delicious starch, I found it was helped along by the Catholic church. According to Jeff Wells in his article “A Brief History of Waffles” on the awesome MentalFloss.com website, in ancient Greece obelios (flat cakes or crackers) were roasted between two metal plates attached to a long wooden handle. Then in Medieval Europe, the Catholic Church made a large, unleavened wafer as a sort of companion to the communion wafer called oublies . Once the church gave artisans permission to make their own oublies, designs proliferated to include family crests, landscapes, .etc. Over time the oublie batter had spices and leavening added, and the plates got deeper so more batter could be added which is when it became the wafel. Around the 15th century, Dutch wafelers began using rectangular instead of circular plates, molding them into a grid pattern. Other uncommon facts are: one of Americas forefathers, Thomas Jefferson, brought the first waffle iron over; in 1904 at the Missouri State Fair a vendor ran out of cups for his ice cream stand, so he folded a waffle (from another vendor) to make the first ice cream cone; there is also an INTERNATIOAL WAFFLE DAY (March 25th); and finally when Eggo frozen waffles were first introduced Kellogg called them “Froffles“… no kidding.