12/22/2004: Gingerbread construction

Undertoad · 12-22-2004, 10:52 AM

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.

full story

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

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!

)

404Error · 12-22-2004, 10:55 PM

Quote:

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

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.

12-22-2004, 10:52 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	12/22/2004: Gingerbread construction 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. full story A gingerbread computer makes much more sense, an impressive little work that is.

12-22-2004, 12:19 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-22-2004, 12:24 PM	#3
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	Uh, wouldn't that be a GBPU? __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

12-22-2004, 12:26 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	CookiePU ... it works. Gingerbread, although called a bread, is, in this formation, a cookie. You can't build much with bready gingerbread ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-22-2004, 04:30 PM	#7
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	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. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-22-2004, 01:12 PM	#5
Wormfood Superior Inhabitant Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 73	Somebody been overclocking it too much and fried the whole thing.. :p

12-22-2004, 03:54 PM	#6
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	YUMMMMMMM

12-22-2004, 06:07 PM	#8
Roosta Nutter. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: England Posts: 221	That's just silly. It'd never work with that candy connected in reverse polarity! ) __________________ Back from the brink...

12-23-2004, 08:04 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Or a laptop. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:58 PM.

12-24-2004, 10:07 AM	#11
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Looks like it is stuck at the splash screen...typical. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-24-2004, 11:07 AM	#12
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	Just love that mouse!

12-26-2004, 12:39 AM	#13
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	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. Attached Images __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

12-26-2004, 04:14 PM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It is awesome! But are graham crackers in the guidelines? Was he cheating?? <G>

12-26-2004, 05:10 PM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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