National Breadstick Day 2023: A celebration of the humble breadstick is held every year on the last Friday in October. This year, the event takes place on October 27. Breadsticks are thin, cooked, crispy, dry sticks of goodness that were first made in Italy. What’s great about breadsticks besides their crunch? You can eat them as a starter or make them fancier by adding all sorts of other foods to them. Yum!
National Breadstick Day 2023: HISTORY
Food scientists don’t all agree on where the first breadsticks, called grissini, came from, but most agree that they were made in Piedmont, Italy, in the late 1600s.
One of these stories starts when Vittorio Amedeo II di Savoia, the young duke, was nine years old. He already had problems with his intestines that made it hard for him to eat and slowed down his growth.
His mom asked the court doctor to help her figure out how to feed her son. Doctor, who was very smart, said it was food poisoning from pathogenic gut germs that got into the bread. The doctor had had similar problems with his intestines. At the time, what did he do? The bread his mom made was “well leavened, well baked with little crumb and very crisp.”
The doctor asked a cook in the area to make the duke more bread sticks. It did the job. Vittorio got better and became king in the end. In the Savoia home, the crisp grissino bread became the favorite. Royalty and other important people at the time who came to visit could all try it out. Duke Vittorio ate his first breadstick only four years ago. There was such high demand for the product that the government had to set a maximum price.
Were the breadsticks really good for the duke? It is possible that people had eaten grissini before later. It does, however, make a good story.
WHAT TO DO ON NATIONAL BREADSTICK DAY
Have a Great Breadstick Hunt!
People really like their breadsticks. Today is National Breadstick Day, so we want you to find the best breadsticks in your area. Get your friends together and go to at least three places. Pick out one place and order only breadsticks to see which one will be National Breadstick Day winner.
Replace traditional pointers with breadsticks
Are you going to give a talk at work soon? Picture the look on your coworkers’ faces as you walk up to the stage, pull out your breadstick, and start to speak. We’ll just say that your show will never get lost. There is no doubt that you will make an impact.
Use breadsticks to fight a duel
He backs Democrats, and she backs Republicans. Come on, let’s not fight with words. Let’s fight with breadsticks instead. What’s the harm? You only remember the fight that started when you poke each other with your breadsticks. Now you can sit down and eat your weapons. It’s possible, though!
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They are Italian.
There are different stories about how breadsticks were first made, but everyone says that they are made of bread, have an Italian origin, and taste good.
Napoleon liked them a lot
Napoleon set up a bus service between Torino and Paris so that he could bring breadsticks to the emperor. The emperor liked them and called them “little sticks of Turin.”
We want them crispy — not burnt
The most important thing for cooks in the 1400s was to make breadsticks that were crispy without burning them.
They are even in Spain
Spanish breadsticks, called Rosquilletas, are mostly served in the Castello de la Plana area.
NATIONAL BREADSTICK DAY DATES
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | October 29 | Friday |
| 2022 | October 28 | Friday |
| 2023 | October 27 | Friday |
| 2024 | October 25 | Friday |
| 2025 | October 31 | Friday |
