== Common Ancestors ==
[[File:Bread shop in the street.jpg|thumb|left|upright|A boy selling ''ka'ak'' in a Jerusalem street of Jerusalem in 2012]]
Bagels, pretzels and ''obwarzanki'' are similar enough to each other to suggest a common origin. According to Ms. Maria Balinska, who wrote a book on the history of bagels, holey breads date back all the way to ancient Rome. She believes that all such bread products descend from the ''buccellata'',<ref>{{Cyt
| nazwisko = Balinska