Dough wrapped around a wooden cylinder, grilled over coals, dusted in sugar and walnut. Tourist-marketed as old Czech, actually a 21st-century Prague phenomenon from Transylvania.
Trdelnik traces back to Transylvania, brought to the Slovak town of Skalica by retired Hungarian general Jozsef Gvadanyi in the 1780s. It only arrived in Prague in the early 2000s, when tourist vendors marketed it as a traditional Czech pastry. Locals avoid it; the pastry exists almost entirely for tourist photos around the Old Town. Now the trdelnik-ice-cream-cone is its dominant form.
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