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Is Trdelnik pastry truly a Czech specialty?

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Rahel Zahlmann
July 5, 2025

This tube-shaped pastry, baked over charcoal and filled with ice cream and fruit, is popular with tourists and sold all over the Czech capital Prague. But where did it originate?

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