{"id":16469,"date":"2016-12-12T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/?p=16469"},"modified":"2016-12-07T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T19:13:41","slug":"national-gingerbread-house-day-fun-facts","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/national-gingerbread-house-day-fun-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"National Gingerbread House Day: Fun Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gingerbread<\/a><\/p>\n

Making Gingerbread Houses is a fun, creative and traditional activity for the holiday season. Today is National Gingerbread House Day and we have some interesting facts about gingerbread to share while you create your own.<\/p>\n

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  1. Gingerbread originally comes from the East and is said to have come from Europe in 922 by a monk to help cure indigestion.<\/li>\n
  2. It is said that Queen Elizabeth I came up with the concept of the gingerbread man after wanting to present them to visiting officials as gifts.<\/li>\n
  3. The popularity of gingerbread houses skyrocketed in Germany after the Brothers Grimm published \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d.<\/li>\n
  4. In the city of Bergen in Norway, they make an entire city of gingerbread houses annually.<\/li>\n
  5. Unmarried women in England would often eat gingerbread men for good luck in meeting a husband.<\/li>\n
  6. Gingerbread houses can be traced back to Ancient Greece and Egypt.<\/li>\n
  7. There is a Swedish tradition in which people use gingerbread to make a wish.<\/li>\n
  8. The word \u201cgingerbread\u2019 derives from the Old French word \u201cgingebras\u201d, meaning \u201cpreserved ginger\u201d.<\/li>\n
  9. The largest gingerbread house in the world is 60 feet by 42 feet and is worth 35,823,400 calories.<\/li>\n
  10. One of the defining aspects of gingerbread is the use of honey or molasses as the sweetener instead of sugar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Check out some of these deals to help you make your own gingerbread house.<\/p>\n