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Fox News Contributor Tells Tucker Carlson Gingerbread Cookies Are 'Obviously Men'

Calling the treats "gingerbread people" is "spiritual neutering," Carlson said.
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The so-called “War on Christmas” has apparently spread to the world of gingerbread cookies.

That is, if you want to believe Fox News host Tucker Carlson and network contributor Tammy Bruce.

On Tuesday’s show, Bruce lamented a recent decision by a coffee shop on the grounds of Scottish Parliament to rename “gingerbread men” “gingerbread people.”

The name change reportedly came as part of a drive against sexism in Parliament after 30 percent of female ministers said they had been victims of some form of sexual harassment.

But that decision didn’t sit well with Bruce, who said referring to the cookies as “people” when “obviously, they’re men” was “the tipping point” in policing free speech.

Carlson, who is losing sponsors after he said immigrants make America “dirtier” on his show last week, decided Bruce was right to be angry about gender-neutral Christmas cookies.

“Maybe the lesson is the rest of us shouldn’t participate in our own spiritual neutering,” he said.

You can see Bruce and Carlson clutch their pearls in the video clip below. As you might expect, Twitter users were happy to mock them. 

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Before You Go

Over-the-Top Gingerbread Houses
Pied Piper Gingerbread House(01 of07)
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Location: The New York Botanical Garden's 2009 Gingerbread Adventures (Bronx, NY)
The mother-daughter duo behind Ardsley, New York's Riviera Bake House took inspiration from daughter Liv Hansen's favorite childhood fairytale to create their 2-foot tall structure. No candy was used to decorate; Liv instead completed detail work using a pipeable, watered-down recipe for gingerbread. She sculpted all of the mice and the Pied Piper from marzipan, and constructed the roof from cereal. The team dedicated five days to the project, using approximately 10 pounds of gingerbread and 2-3 gallons of icing.

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Photo courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden.
Santa's German Gingerbread Village(02 of07)
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Location: The Sheraton Princess Ka'iulani Hotel, 2010 (Honolulu, HI)
Hotel executive chef Ralf Bauer and a team of culinary architects spent over 660 hours designing and constructing a gingerbread village that paid homage to both Bauer's native Germany and to old Hawaii. Medieval churches, bell towers, train stations, a carousel and skating rink mingled with iconic Hawaiian structures like the Kawaiha'o mission church and the magnificent Iolani Palace. The winter wonderland stood over 14 1/2 feet high and 24 feet wide and was made with 200 gallons of icing, 100 pounds of dark chocolate, 30 pounds of white chocolate and 60 sheets of gingerbread.

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Photo courtesy of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Waikiki.
First Family Holiday House(03 of07)
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Location: The Grove Park Inn & Spa's 2009 Gingerbread Competition (Asheville, NC)
Carolina Montoya and husband Fernado Puga spent 302 hours over the course of two months to create their gingerbread house. The traditionally-designed structure featured President Barack Obama, who appeared to be climbing out the window and up onto the chimney with a bag full of toys. Montoya and Puga's all-edible entry was constructed of gingerbread, fondant, gum paste, coconut, Rice Krispies cereal and breath strips for window panes.

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Photo courtesy PeakDefinition.com.
A Christmas Story(04 of07)
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Location: The Seattle Sheraton's 2009 Gingerbread Village (Seattle, WA)
Prompted by the theme "Reel Christmas," a team of Seattle Sheraton culinary staff and area architecture firm DLR Group created this cheeky homage to the 1983 Christmas comedy film classic A Christmas Story. Weighing around 200 pounds, the gingerbread structure featured edible reenactments of memorable movie scenes—including fondant versions of Ralphie and friend Flick by the flagpole in an amazingly detailed gingerbread neighborhood, and a recreation of the film's iconic leg lamp sporting licorice "fringe."

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Photo courtesy of Sheraton Seattle.
Baba Yaga Gingerbread House(05 of07)
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Location: The New York Botanical Garden's 2009 Gingerbread Adventures (Bronx, NY)
Irina Brandler, a Russian immigrant and owner of Sugar and Spice Bake Shop in Bronx, NY, headed a team of four bakers to make a gingerbread house for Baba Yaga, a witch-like character from Russian folklore who lives in the forest in a hut that stands on chicken legs. Irina's version of the house stood more than two feet tall and featured a roof covered in shredded wheat cereal and Necco Wafers®, pretzel fences and ladder, a trail formed with Boston Baked Beans candy, and Christmas trees made of frosted ice cream cones and pretzel rods. Three domes on the top of the house were all shaped out of fondant—one dome made of a Hershey's chocolate kiss melted and had to be replaced.

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Photo courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden.
The English Cottage(06 of07)
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Location: The Grove Park Inn & Spa's 2009 Gingerbread Competition (Asheville, NC)
Ten-year-old Lydia Gentry of Hendersonville, North Carolina, made creative use of edible materials to construct her prize-winning gingerbread house. Lydia thatched her cottage's roof with shredded wheat cereal, used chocolate rocks on the foundation and chimney, and poured hard candy to create the cottage windows. Outside, frosting-covered pasta formed porch supports while a chocolate candy and tapioca pearl walkway wound its way beneath a vine-covered trellis (gum paste, pasta and frosting), past rose bushes made of crushed cereal and marshmallow, and through a lawn made of frosting and speckled with coconut "snow."

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Photo courtesy PeakDefinition.com.
Three Little Pigs Gingerbread House(07 of07)
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Location: The New York Botanical Garden's 2009 Gingerbread Adventures (Bronx, NY)
For her fairy-tale-themed confection, Cake Power's Kate Sullivan constructed an 18-inch-tall gingerbread house featuring three little pigs and a wolf all made of fondant (the original versions, made of modeling chocolate, melted in the Botanical Garden's greenhouse). The house itself, constructed of embossed gingerbread, featured such incredible tiny details as a jellybean-covered fireplace, string licorice rag rug, gumball lamp and vase, windows made of poured blue-tinted hard sugar, and a whimsical hanging portrait of a Star Wars clone trooper drawn in food marker.

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Photo courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden
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