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

[NellesVilla]

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).

But this is the real conundrum, yes?

This has been going on for years.

Nothing to stop anyone from declaring that the gingerbread person in the shop is actually a gingerbread man once they get it home if they want to sing songs about gingerbread men running away 🤷‍♀️

Maybe there's more than one representative of gingerbread people

I prefer gingerbread person. Don't see why they need to be men. I couldn't get too excited about it though.

😂😂

How about a gingerbread human? 🤣

Why does it always have to be the default male??
I have always called them gingerbread people, and according to my DC, I'm the only person ever to call the road crossing the red/green person 😆

Gingerbread person but its the default male cutter used we used to buy the skirt one because they weighed more so more gingerbread for your money

This is a joke thread.

its a biscuit in the shape of a human, assign any sex and gender to it. Call them ginger biscuits or ginger breads or gingerbread man. I’d to see more variety in the shape of them, different sizes, body shapes etc. buuut who has time for that ? Maybe even ginger bread families? Fuck I need to set up my own business of different gingerbread folk

I can help you with that

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

Cause it's made of balls.

Nope. The character in Shrek is Ginger and we don’t know if Ginger has a gender identity and Ginger has no sex as Ginger is a baked good.

I think you are confusing Ginger with the Muffin Man.

Of course you bloody can

I usually take of this within a few seconds.

#bakeryactivism

My 1970 odd recipe book that used to be my mums has a recipe for gingerbread people ? I don't think it's a new woke thing

To be fair I’ve never seen a gingerbread biscuit with a meat and two veg out so it all along it could have been a woman in trousers 😂.

Just call it a gingerbread man in your house then, who gives a fuck, its a shop trying to sell more biscuits and market research has come back that this sells more by being "inclusive" or they get a bit of free advertisement by the culture outrage Piers Morgan types like the Greggs vegan sausage roll thing.

Its not deeper than that. eyeroll

Is this thread sponsored by the muffin man? I want gingerbread now.

@Befugee

'well it pissed me off as a kid and it pisses me off now. What do girls get?'
I think girls get to eat the biscuits even if they are 'man' shaped. Let's not kid ourselves that this faux woke issue involves who actually gets to eat the biscuits!
In the same way that gingerbread men are sometimes gingerbread people, or bunnies, or houses, or reindeer faces, or stars; it's a biscuit and the shape or the name of the shape is really not worthy of anger, or indeed the headspace if intelligent women.

You can't just go around asking what the gingerbread people's heritage is

yabu it's very sexist to assume they are male just because of not wearing a skirt.

while we are here, please can everyone remember to teach their children that pedestrian crossing lights show a green person not a green man.

Don’t see why it’s a problem either way. You get gingerbread reindeer and all sorts of shapes too.

That is a very good point, and I should probably apologise next time I buy some for possibly misgendering.

Well "person" doesn't roll off the tongue, and now the rhyme doesn't work. So it's a crap change done for politics' sake. I'm with you, OP!

Exactly. They taste the same whatever you call them, but as they have no obvious sex-specific characteristics then they should always have been 'people', and not men by default.