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smug_masshole t1_izxgp4y wrote

If it helps, these are also sometimes called Honigkuchen, although I think there's also a slightly different thing called that as well, and there's probably a bunch of people who will tell you they're nothing alike because no one outside their home city/village/region know how to make it properly.

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WeeSmallHours t1_izxk6rb wrote

Ouch, that's ... not right. Honigkuchen are a cake-like bread (made with dark beer, yum) and Lebkuchen are a firmer, heavily spiced, bar. I'd be really disappointed to buy Honigkuchen and wind up with Lebkuchen...

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smug_masshole t1_izy0xyh wrote

This is the thing-- like a lot of German food, the terms are not universal and there is overlap, so you can find different things under the same name and the same thing under different names.

Lebkuchen, Honigkuchen, and Pfefferkuchen can all be the same thing

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