A bakery has sparked quite a stir online after a customer posted about the 'non-binary gingerbread people' it is selling. Taking to Facebook, the customer, called Luke Willis, uploaded a picture of the sweet plain biscuit inside packaging which states 'The Cottage Bakery. Non-binary gingerbread people."
In the caption of his post, Luke wrote: "Really? A non binary gingerbread people? What it’s really come too," alongside a cry-laughing emoji face. Since sharing his thoughts, the post has garnered widespread attention online, with hundreds of likes and more than one thousand shares.
The post about the sugary treat, which is being sold at The Cottage Bakery in Blackpool, unsurprisingly became flooded by comments from people with various mixed reactions - some shocked, some confused and some finding the whole thing amusing.
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"Whatever next?!" Sophiee Jane commented. Scott King wrote: "What the actual ****." Courtney Anne Owen quizzed: "How can it be ‘people’ if there’s only 1?" Gav Francis Baker quipped: "I'm offended the word ginger is in it."
Alongside a string of laughing emojis, Melvyn Evans put: "FFS its a ginger bread man they never made a woman so no other sex involved." While tagging a friend, Eriñ Marië asked: "What is happening?" Khloe Macaulay-Murray stated: "The world is ******."
Ryan Ellis said: "You can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread people ‘… sounds ****." Pamela Stevenson admitted: "l just don't understand it all.. Deary me." Harry Stephens sarcastically typed: "What’s wrong with that? Gender is a thing of the past!", to which Zoe Woods replied: "I think the point is that it’s gingerbread since when did food have genders lol."
However Ebony Jade pointed out: "It's not real nor a person ....its a ginger bread biscuit for gods sake , I'm part of the LGBTQ and even I'm getting embarrassed and sick of everything food , drinks , names ....we wanted to be accepted not labelled and stand out from every other thing."
Speaking to the Blackpool Gazette, owner of the bakery Paul Cook said it has taken people several years to even notice the product's label - which was changed in 2019 when Natasha’s Law’ was laid in Parliament. The law came following the tragic death of teenager Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died suffering a severe allergic reaction to sesame in a baguette onboard a flight to France in 2016.
“We began putting labels on them before Covid, but we had people coming in and saying it was wrong and they were not men,” Paul said. “So I had a chat with my printer about and he said, ‘Why don’t you call them non-binary?’
“I thought that’d be funny and that’s how it came about. But it’s taken three years for someone to make a big deal of it.”
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