Can’t Catch Me…

I guess someone somewhere eats gingerbread. By and large it seems to be more of a decoration than delicacy.

Like fruitcakes.

We have those innovative Germans to thank for gingerbread’s origins. Monks would whip up spiced cakes for feasts. Later, Queen Elizabeth I would popularize the confection by commissioning it to be made in the likenesses of visiting dignitaries. But, it was German-born Prince Albert who brought the tradition of hanging gingerbread men from the Christmas tree.

With the rise of The Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, so did the popularity of gingerbread houses and the practice of decorating them.

So, the practice of gingerbread men has endured throughout the centuries and continents. Enough so, we have a gingerbread Aquaman offered up in memory of the spiced treat.