it's hard to imagine that we didn't know about Belgian waffles in 1964!
"Vermersch, now 66, helped serve as many as 2,500 waffles a day during the fair, which opened 50 years ago on April 22, 1964.
"It was wild," she says."
"There are many different types of waffle in Belgium. MariePaule's family recipe was for the Brussels waffle, a specialty in the cities of Brussels and Ghent. But she says, at one point, her mother realized that many Americans didn't know where Brussels was.
"She told my father it's not a good idea to call it the Brussels waffle. I think some people won't be able to locate where the waffle comes from. So at the time, she told me father, let's call them Belgian waffles," she says."
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