Seasonal & Holidays
We Asked Readers To Submit Gingerbread House Photos; This Guy Took The Challenge Literally
This house of ginger and bread speaks to everyone who is too busy getting ready for the holidays to decorate their homes for the holidays.
ACROSS AMERICA — Rich Brandeis, of Darien, Illinois, we give you props, hallelujahs and a special honorable mention for this entry in Patch’s second annual gingerbread house contest.
“Carefully balanced the bread,” he deadpanned of the effort it took to construct it.
Bwahahahahaha.
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We couldn’t love it more.
It speaks to every harried holiday reveler out there who is too busy shopping and shipping and cooking and baking and caroling and partying and moving that (insert the adjective of your choice) elf around to deck the halls with boughs of holly — or anything else, for that matter.
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Your humble house of ginger and bread is so understated it’s elegant. Our blood sugar leveled out just looking at it.
Mr. Brandeis, you are our holiday hero, our unSanta, the Kris in our Kringle. We salute your literal humor and your wit, and happily bestow on you the ugly Christmas sweater of gingerbread house awards.
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