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A creepy individual dressed in a gingerbread man costume wreaked havoc on a Virginia neighborhood this week by attempting to force his way into multiple homes. CBS affiliate WUSA9 reports the incidents took place Wednesday night in Arlington. As seen in the video below, someone wearing an inflatable gingerbread costume was captured on a doorbell camera trying to enter the witnesses' residence. "My wife said, 'Hey listen, there's this guy, he didn't ring the doorbell, he's just standing there, and he's in this gingerbread man costume,'" one man told the news station. Unsure of how to handle the situation, the...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) posed with a “fully constructed” gingerbread replica of the U.S. Capitol months after the Department of Justice (DOJ) confiscated a Capitol building Lego set from an alleged January 6 rioter. “The gingerbread replica of the US Capitol is sure to get u in the Christmas mood,” Grassley tweeted.

Esteemed Sydney-based pastry chef, Anna Polyviou, has created a special four-metre-long gingerbread train, complete with 1,000 kilograms of gingerbread bricks, 200 lollipops and lashings of icing. The incredible structure is currently on display at Sydney's Shangri La hotel, where it will remain over the festive season until December 31.

A favorite food of an Armenian monk, Gregory of Nicopolis, brought gingerbread to Europe around 992 AD and taught French Christians to bake it. Gingerbread was often used in religious ceremonies and was baked to be sturdy as it was often molded into images of saints. We can thank the Brothers’ Grimm for the idea of a gingerbread house through their tale of Hansel and Gretel. It didn’t take long for the German gingerbread guilds to pick up the idea and put it to a more festive use making snowy cottages made from the spicy-sweet treat. Gather the family together,...

Big Guy is finally home from his grueling international tour. He’s planning to leave all the problems in the world behind this weekend (i.e. don’t call him, Pooty) by unwinding with a marathon session of Sweet Sixteen playoffs.What a nightmare last week’s trip was: First they dissed BHO in the Netherlands by not even applauding his best rhetorical efforts off-prompter. Then there was Belgium – oy! Does nobody in that country even understand the meaning of political correctness? I mean good grief, a life-sized gingerbread Barack Obama cookie presented as an official gift from the Kingdom of Belgium to the...

If anyone reading this owns a ZTE Score M Android smartphone, your device has been found to include a backdoor allowing root access without user authentication.The discovery of the backdoor comes via a post on the text storage website Pastebin. It has since been confirmed via Reddit by Justin Case of Cunning Logic and TeamAndIRC. He has confirmed with someone at ZTE that the backdoor does indeed exist and that a fix is in the works.The question that needs to be asked is, why is it there at all?Apparently the handset includes a hard-coded password that allows access to a...

In the nursery rhyme, the Gingerbread Man fled from the clutches of an old woman and her husband. But now he has been cornered by an even more unforgiving foe - political correctness.

This year for Christmas I decided to build something out of gingerbread. I didn't want to build the typical gingerbread house so I decided to do a bridge of some sort.

FAIRFAX — Karen Seaman spent hours Sunday making sustainable modifications her family’s house. She installed solar paneling on the roof, erected a small wind turbine and put up a clothing line in the backyard."SHE WANTED A SMALLER CARBONG FOOTPRINT".(Emphasis Added) After Seaman, of Fairfax, finished her construction, it was questionable whether the modifications would actually work. The solar paneling was made of fruit leather, the wind turbine was constructed of chewing gum and pretzel rods and the clothing line was thrown together with licorice ropes and Piroulines. Seaman’s attempts at greening up her family’s home might not in the end...

[Archived Chef's Tables Recipes] Back in the ‘50’s when I was growing up no Christmas was complete without the sweet and spicy smell of gingerbread. An almost intoxicating aroma filled the house and you knew, even as a small child, that it wasn’t long before Christmas eve. If you ever dined in our Main Dining Room you probably noticed the full sized figures of colonial looking men & women and decorative large wooden planks that appear to have the same figures carved in them. What most of our guest don’t realize is that these boards are actual hundred and forty...

Can any of you German-speakers tell me how to pronounce the "ch" in the traditional German gingerbread cookies called Lebkuchen? Have tried doing a search on the web, but came up with history and recipes, but not pronunciation.

Both Betty Crocker and Mother Goose might be shocked if they took a stroll through The Market at the Indiana Memorial Union in search of one of their favorite cookies: the Gingerbread Man. They'd find one all right, wrapped neatly in plastic with two red candy eyes peering back at them. But when they flipped the cookie over to find its price, they'd discover their man stripped of his gender, with a label reading "ginger person."

COLLEYVILLE, Texas - (KRT) - No gingerbread house should have to endure a carrot-stick fence or a door made of celery. It's just not the way gingerbread houses are done. The kindergartners at O.C. Taylor Elementary School therefore had a sticky problem Friday. New state guidelines prohibit distibution of certain yummy snacks, jelly bean Christmas lights among them, by schools. ``Contraband candies,'' O.C. Taylor teacher Debbie Horn calls them. But for as long as anyone can remember - possibly as far back as when gum drops were gum drips - the school's kindergartners have made gingerbread houses. So teachers issued...