There are no such things as gingerbread houses. They are in your imagination
Gingerbread originated in ancient Greece and was later popularized in Europe, particularly in Germany. Today, various countries around the world have their own versions of gingerbread, but its true origins can be traced back to ancient Greece.
Gingerbread straw bricks sticks and candies
Nuremberg is famous for its gingerbread.
Piernik is a kind of cake or cookie, it can hardly be grown! In English it is called a gingerbread simply, but not the Scandinavian-type (like thin gingerbread Christmas cookies). Polish gingerbread cookies are much thicker, often with marmalade inside.
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Germany is credited with the introduction of gingerbread houses, which became popular during the 16th century. The tradition of creating gingerbread houses evolved from the practice of baking and decorating gingerbread cookies.
An Armenian monk brought the recipe for gingerbread to France in 922 AD. Gingerbread spread to Germany, Sweden and the UK. German bakers started making gingerbread houses in the 1800s.
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Since 1991, the people of Bergen, Norway, have built a city of gingerbread houses each year before Christmas.
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That phrase is not talking about the gingerbread you eat! Victorian Era houses had a lot of decorative woodwork that was called "gingerbread" because it looked a bit like the decorative gingerbread houses people make. If your gingerbread on your house had gold leaf rubbed on, it was gilded, or gilt. "The gilt has worn off the gingerbread" thus means that time has passed and the decorations aren't as pretty - in other words, the newness has worn off.
They eat the gingerbread house after Christmas!
The first gingerbread houses were reportedly inspired by the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," written by the Brothers Grimm. The story features a witch's house made of gingerbread, which likely influenced the tradition of making edible gingerbread houses.
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Decorating cakes and gingerbread houses.