Gingerbread originates from Armenia.
The gingerbread man came from Germany
There are no such things as gingerbread houses. They are in your imagination
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the gingerbread house came from Germany
well the gingerbread man comes from a legend long ago its seems that a old women was baking a gingerbread cookie for her husband and herself one Christmas eve when she took the cookie out it was shaped like a little boy over time people started adding on to the story and soon it became a popular well known legend.....
The tradition of baking a Gingerbread house began in Germany after the Brothers Grimm published their collection of German
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.
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.
the gingerbread man
Not many animals can have gingerbread, including rats. They can have gingerbread, but it is fairly unhealthy and it is generally advised not feed gingerbread cookies to rats.