One very common breakfast food in Taiwan is the Chinese Donut or 油條 which literally means "Oil Stick" in chinese. It is said that the origins of the food came as a protest of a government official and his wife from the Song Dynasty. It is said that Qin Hui and his wife were responsible for slandering a famous patriotic general.
Originally, the 油條 was made in the shape of two humans- later to be turned into two sticks representing the two humans (Qin and his wife) joined together. Eating the joined pieces of bread represented eating the traitorous couple.
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