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Original poster

…to think you can’t have a Gingerbread PERSON?!

131 replies

NellesVilla · 02/12/2022 21:09

Lighthearted-ish.

Now I know there are more important issues to contend with, but honestly…

Bloody Sainsbury’s acting like twats calling a Gingerbread Man a Gingerbread Person. How utterly ridiculous is this, and who on earth came up with this? I’m hoping this batshit employee was fired shortly after. Why? What was the point?

I am fuming- absolutely incandescent with rage- and the children are crying (not mine as I don’t have any).

OP posts:
crussont · 02/12/2022 21:11

Calm down it has no gender identity

TreeWell · 02/12/2022 21:11

Never seen one with genitals yet... 🤷🏻‍♀️

polkadotdinosaur · 02/12/2022 21:11

Kinda makes no difference though, does it. Everyone is kicking off shouting about how woke it is on social media… the irony!

crussont · 02/12/2022 21:11

polkadotdinosaur · 02/12/2022 21:11

Kinda makes no difference though, does it. Everyone is kicking off shouting about how woke it is on social media… the irony!

Are they? They've been around years though?

crussont · 02/12/2022 21:12

It would be good if they could make some with a missing limb

BilliousBob · 02/12/2022 21:14

It's not nearly as ridiculous as the Genderbread person.

unvillage · 02/12/2022 21:14

Feel free to draw a little penis on your gingerbread person if you like.

luckylavender · 02/12/2022 21:16

NellesVilla · 02/12/2022 21:09

Lighthearted-ish.

Now I know there are more important issues to contend with, but honestly…

Bloody Sainsbury’s acting like twats calling a Gingerbread Man a Gingerbread Person. How utterly ridiculous is this, and who on earth came up with this? I’m hoping this batshit employee was fired shortly after. Why? What was the point?

I am fuming- absolutely incandescent with rage- and the children are crying (not mine as I don’t have any).

Very strange thing to get worked up about. It's very clearly not male.

Original poster
NellesVilla · 02/12/2022 21:17

Come on, we’ve always had the Gingerbread Man- right or wrong. He’s in a rhyme, a story and even Shrek. We can’t forget all that…history and tradition!

OP posts:
Pumperthepumper · 02/12/2022 21:19

I’ve never seen one with a knob. Why can’t he be female?

ShinyMe · 02/12/2022 21:19

I don't get it. Why can't you have a gingerbread person?

XenoBitch · 02/12/2022 21:20

I think the person who got offended and called for change (if that did happen, I don't know) is the one who is BU.
It is a biscuit.

crussont · 02/12/2022 21:20

NellesVilla · 02/12/2022 21:17

Come on, we’ve always had the Gingerbread Man- right or wrong. He’s in a rhyme, a story and even Shrek. We can’t forget all that…history and tradition!

It could be a man or a woman or indeed a bit of both

RichardMarxisinnocent · 02/12/2022 21:21

At my local Sainsburys they sell a 2 pack of gingerbread people, one is a gingerbread woman the other a gingerbread man. I don't see a problem with gingerbread people.

GoodVibesHere · 02/12/2022 21:22

Surely it's 'a person of ginger bread'.

This thread has me thinking now... about building a snowman, drawing a snowman, and even the film 'The Snowman'.

Why is it always a snowman? Why is it never a snowoman?

Brefugee · 02/12/2022 21:22

Come on, we’ve always had the Gingerbread Man- right or wrong. He’s in a rhyme, a story and even Shrek. We can’t forget all that…history and tradition!

well it pissed me off as a kid and it pisses me off now. What do girls get?

XenoBitch · 02/12/2022 21:22

RichardMarxisinnocent · 02/12/2022 21:21

At my local Sainsburys they sell a 2 pack of gingerbread people, one is a gingerbread woman the other a gingerbread man. I don't see a problem with gingerbread people.

Where is the non-binary gingerbread person?

eosmum · 02/12/2022 21:22

Run Run as fast as you can you can’t catch me cried the gingerbread person. Nah doesn’t work😜

vodkaredbullgirl · 02/12/2022 21:23

Turn it upside down and make it a reindeer.

Luredbyapomegranate · 02/12/2022 21:26

BilliousBob · 02/12/2022 21:14

It's not nearly as ridiculous as the Genderbread person.

PATENT that.

I think it’s fine OP. It’s not a man, and it’s kind of annoying that so much is man as a default.

I DO TOTALLY understand it makes you sad for a simpler time etc (I do - am not being snarky) but your kids will love their ginger people just as much.

Sparklesocks · 02/12/2022 21:28

I’m not really fussed. They’re not exactly anatomically correct.

UniversalTruth · 02/12/2022 21:28

YABU the usual offer is a gingerbread bread man with gum drop buttons or a gingerbread woman dressed like a 1950s housewife.

So gingerbread person is step up from this surely.

Coralpop · 02/12/2022 21:29

crussont · 02/12/2022 21:12

It would be good if they could make some with a missing limb

Gingerbread torsos would be better for my diet

SteveHarringtonsChestHair · 02/12/2022 21:29

RichardMarxisinnocent · 02/12/2022 21:21

At my local Sainsburys they sell a 2 pack of gingerbread people, one is a gingerbread woman the other a gingerbread man. I don't see a problem with gingerbread people.

How do you know which is which? Surely you have to ask them how they identify?!

Wafflehouse · 02/12/2022 21:38

The individual ones have been sold as a gingerbread person in Sainsburys for years.

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