On Oct 16, 7:08 am, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:14:50 +0000 (UTC), PeterLucas wrote:
> > Just read an article in the September 2007 edition of National Geographic.
>
> >http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...cal-foods.html
>
> "The kringle, aka the ´Danish oval pastry,¡ is pretty much sold
> only in Racine, Wisconsin, where folks love its 86 layers of
> hand-folded dough"
>
> Any mathematicians out there want to venture a guess as to how
> you can fold a single piece of dough to get exactly 86 layers?
>
> -sw

Regardless of NatGeo, I doubt there are few, if any, foods in America
that are made only in one place. "Kringle" is available in areas of
the midwest where Danes settled, and also available fairly easily from
mail-order places. That's not to say the quality is the same....

N.