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.

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

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.

Uh, wouldn't that be a GBPU?

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

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

YUMMMMMMM

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.

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

Or a laptop.

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

Just love that mouse!

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.

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

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.

This house wasn't for any competition, it was made as the center piece for the dessert table at the holiday theme dinner for the college. Besides, I doubt it was meant to be edible seeing as how the graham crackers are frosted onto a cardboard framework.

Here it is finished at the dinner.

I love the candy canes hanging over the veggie bar.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce I love the candy canes hanging over the veggie bar.

I really like the way you think.

That reminds me. I should pick up some sugar cane in the supermarket on the way to work tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by dar512 Sugar comes from sugar cane which is a plant. Doesn't that make it a veggie?

That has easily got to be one of the stranger 6 Degrees of Separation type linkage coincidences that I have encountered in some time.