Ask the Pseudo-Chef: Post-Holiday Gingerbread Question

What is the proper way to dispose of a gingerbread house? --Ed, MA

I’m so glad you asked.  According to my husband, the proper way to discard a gingerbread house, which his son lovingly crafted by hand out of graham crackers and the frosting that he didn’t eat, would be to “whip it” into the bushes from the back door.  Drop-kicking it might work, too, but the point is that it should be airborne for as long as possible, and mostly still intact upon landing in the shrubbery.  If all goes well, it will end up near the sunken pumpkin carcasses from the previous Halloween.  And in plain view of the child’s bedroom so he will ask puzzled questions.



Happy New Year, little sparrows.

Comments

[Husband]

Drop-kicking would shatter it into a million pieces, thus decreasing the humor factor. And the kid's bedrooms are not line-of-sight to the crash site.

Birds love M&M's, but I suspect the racoons got to it first.

[Husband]

And the thing had been sitting in a petrified state on top of the fridge for 2 weeks. Something had to be done.

[cookiecrumb]

I think the husband needs a little comeuppance.
It will comeup next season when the pumpkin rots and its seeds sow themselves into a wild tangle of squash vine.

[Tammy]

I'm hoping little gingerbread houses will sprout forth, as well. They're not as easy to make as they may seem.

[Think globally, whip gingerbread houses out the window locally]

It appears as though the gingerbread house hasn't biodegraded at all since 12/31.