…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).

If you think about it a different way it might allow more imaginative play for kids if they can imagine the little figure as a girl?

This is not new. Gingerbread people have been around for at least 10 years possibly longer!

I’m shaking and crying over it.

Also outraged. And I screamed at it when I saw one.

Call my sense of humour dark, but that cartoon properly made me laugh!

*your cartoon

I like to use a cutter with legs akimbo, then once baked you can turn them round and ice them into reindeer faces. Gingerbread men/people in fancy dress or gingerbread reindeer?



Offs is nobody tired of all this crap?

Did you know...
The first known instance of gingerbread men was Elizabeth I gaving visiting dignitaries gingerbread likenesses of themselves as gifts.

YANBU OP

Such a non issue.

I actually used 'gingerbread person' in Greggs once - not trying to be tactful or anything, just because I dunno - I don't assume male is default.

The checkout guy then congratulated me for being inclusive, saw I was wearing a Harry Potter lanyard and recommended some alternative magic stories with a 'less problematic author'.

Since then I've opted for the pink jammy doughnut, as I generally want something to eat with my coffee, rather than an exploration of my values.

and Jellybabies are SO fucking ageist..

😂

I'll say Gingerbread Men.

& the green man probably.

Please tell me Father Christmas is still a man, I love the Kurt Russell version.

Gingerbread person, I can get on board with. But if they start giving them blue icing for hair, and call them non-binary breads, there'll be hell to pay 😆

I feel sorry for people that get offended over a biscuit.

I just had no idea that the name had been tampered with, and thought it was yet another ridiculously woke batshit thing we’re all expected to adhere to! I love Gingerbread Men and am hungry now!

Op I’m with you. Of course not offended but did roll my eyes. It’s just silly and pandering to politically correct hand wringing. Nobody gives a shit how a gingerbread man identifies so why change it?

I will not be buying any until there’s also a blondebread person and an Afrobread person. Discusting.

People would blame shrinkflation and be seething about that too. I did get a headless one once. Perhaps it identified as French nobility.

I'm my with you op.

Gingerbread Man and Snowman here!!

Well some red-headed people don’t like being called ginger (I am one) and the biscuits aren’t real people so I think the safest term to go with would be auburnbread humanoid Sounds delicious right?

I'm certainly not offended either way and I don't care what the shops call them but yes to:

Gingerbread Man
Snowman
Green Man
Etc

I still say Milk Man, Police Man, Postman, Bin Man. It's a habit.

Genius!