Deli Selling ‘Genderless Organic Vegan’ Gingerbread Cookies, And Another Bakery is Selling “Halloween gingerbread Fun People.” By Katherine Timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/391000/print
No leavening humor here…they make dough while battering sanity….rsk
A deli in Melbourne, Australia is apparently selling genderless, organic, vegan gingerbread cookies for those who may be offended by the phrase “gingerbread man.”
A picture of the quintessential Christmas cookie next to a sign that reads “organic, genderless gingerbread figures” and “vegan” was posted on Reddit this week.
The cookie is also rather environmentally friendly — after all, the Organic Food & Wine Deli also makes sure that its walls are painted with ”biopaint” and its shelves are made of low-emission timber, according to the Daily Mail.
The BBC reported that Internet commenters’ most common response to the cookie was one of annoyance, with posts such as “that’s so politically correct it makes my brain hurt,” and a tongue-in-cheek prediction that soon the word “ginger” will also be taken out of the name of the cookies so as not to offend redheads.
“$2.50?” a commenter wrote. “That’s just insensitive to broke people. This bakery needs to check its privilege.”
“Why they gotta be so white?” asked another.
By the way, Organic Food & Wine isn’t the only business on the genderless cookie bandwagon. A bakery in Dublin is apparently selling “Halloween gingerbread fun people,” according to a picture posted on Twitter as reported by news.au.com.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter at National Review Online.
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