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With all due deference to @fizzy.bleach, as someone with an Anglo-German background I'll answer this nice and quick so we can all get back to the humble mincer without any unpleasantness. Lebkuchen is a broader church than the mince pie; apart from yer basics - a heavily spiced gingerbread base, usually with rye flour and a healthy proportion of chopped nuts - there's more structural diversity: soft or hard texture? Chocolate or sugar glaze? Rice-paper base? Apricot jam filling, or even more exotica (I'm rather partial to Dominosteine, with marzipan and a jaffa-cake-like jelly topping)?
To be honest, I'd just go to Lidl, who have a perfectly acceptable selection of different kinds (their Nürnberger Oblaten are a particular favourite); my mum used to have all kinds of clandestine family networks to get hold of suitable Advent fare, but since a Lidl opened locally a few years back she just goes there, and she's not exactly easy to please.
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I asked this in Food and AQA last year but didn't get satisfactory answers. In fact most forum members showed an embarrassing, pitiable lack of knowledge on the subject. I'm hoping that readers in a thread called Mince Pie Appreciation will have at least some experience of other festive snacks.
The question:
Where can I buy the best Lebkuchen and, to show you're taking life seriously, what qualities are important in Lebkuchen, the unrivalled master of the festive sweet snack field?