Did you know…?
…that ‘bakers’ dozen’ (13
rather than 12) was cooked a lot earlier than you probably think.
Hundreds of years ago English
bakers would often cheat their customers by baking air pockets into the loaves
of bread, making them lightweight. In 1266 the government passed a law which
punished the bakers who sold underweight bread. To be sure they were selling enough
bread to meet the new regulations, the bakers started giving thirteen loaves
for every dozen a customer ordered.
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