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Undertoad 12-22-2004 10:52 AM

12/22/2004: Gingerbread construction
 
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http://cellar.org/2004/gingerbreadhouse.jpg

xoB sent along the CPU and I'm just trying to one-up him with the gingerbread HOUSE. The house is apparently gone now as residents complained about the problems you'd expect to have living next to a gingerbread house:

Now they have agreed to dismantle the house after inspectors said it was a health risk.

Residents in Hietzing, located near Schoenbrunn's imperial palace, a popular destination for tourists, claim that rats and other animals have been attracted by pieces of gingerbread that have been knocked off the wooden frame by the wind.


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A gingerbread computer makes much more sense, an impressive little work that is.

wolf 12-22-2004 12:19 PM

Usually around this time of year food channel runs a show on gingerbread competitions.

There are some amazingly strange, focused people out there building gingerbread houses.

Which, at competition level, are really more like gingerbread McMansions, complete with gingerbread hummers.

404Error 12-22-2004 12:24 PM

Uh, wouldn't that be a GBPU? ;)

wolf 12-22-2004 12:26 PM

CookiePU ... it works. Gingerbread, although called a bread, is, in this formation, a cookie. You can't build much with bready gingerbread ...

Wormfood 12-22-2004 01:12 PM

Somebody been overclocking it too much and fried the whole thing.. :p

Leah 12-22-2004 03:54 PM

YUMMMMMMM :love:

Elspode 12-22-2004 04:30 PM

If you cut it into really small pieces, you would then have several giga-bites worth of gingerbread cpu...

Thanks folks, I'm here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitresses.

Roosta 12-22-2004 06:07 PM

That's just silly. It'd never work with that candy connected in reverse polarity! :o)

404Error 12-22-2004 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf
...You can't build much with bready gingerbread ...

Sure you can. How about a bread sculpture. ;)

xoxoxoBruce 12-23-2004 08:04 PM

Or a laptop. ;)

Elspode 12-24-2004 10:07 AM

Looks like it is stuck at the splash screen...typical.

Katkeeper 12-24-2004 11:07 AM

Just love that mouse!

404Error 12-26-2004 12:39 AM

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My cousin runs the food services at University of Connecticut and made this house for this years Christmas Holiday Theme Dinner. While it's not exactly gingerbread I thought it was pretty cool.

He said he made the whole thing by himself, took him 4 days using 70 cups of sugar, 2 cases of graham crackers and a box of mini shredded wheats. It's 4 feet long and 3 feet high and he put pictures of his staff in the 26 windows.

Undertoad 12-26-2004 04:14 PM

It is awesome! But are graham crackers in the guidelines? Was he cheating?? <G>

wolf 12-26-2004 05:10 PM

I have watched several of these gingerbread competition shows on Food Channel.

There's a percentage of edibility (and royal frosting, despite being less tasty than library paste, is considered edible, so there's a lot of leeway) for Gingerbread Houses, but the material of construction doesn't have to be gingerbread. It's generally preferred, however, because of it's durability.


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