At Konditorei Frutal in Meiringen, you can take a tour of the bakery and then make your own meringues. Meiringen is the village where, in 1600, a confectioner named Gasparini first made this fluffy confection and then named it after the place where he worked. That is how the meringue got its name: from Meiringen. Not long after, it caught on all over Europe.