Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LUBECK, Germany, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- A bitter dispute has erupted between Germany and Estonia over bragging rights as to which is home to the sweet candy marzipan, a Christmas staple in Europe. Major festivities are planned next year in Lubeck on the Baltic coast of Germany, where Germans claim European production began 200 years ago at the Niederegger marzipan works. Advertisement "We will be throwing open our factory to all our customers around the world," said Willi Meier, a Niederegger senior executive. However, in Tallinn, Otto Kubo, the founder of Estonia's marzipan museum said his country shares the founding distinction and just might have its own celebration. "The sweet manufacturer Kalev was established in 1806, so it is exactly as old as the Lubeck confectioner," Kubo told The Times of London. Those unable to attend either festivity can find a recipe on the Internet for making marzipan at marzipancakes.com.
