Gingerbread man to be called gingerbread 'person' in elementary schools

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Gingerbread man to be called gingerbread 'person' in elementary schools: "

And no - I'm not making this up. The story takes place in Britain, but could very well take place here. Just like here in the US, British public schools have been transformed into centers of indoctrination. Schools in Britain have already dropped all references to the holocaust because it offends Muslims, and parents can't even pull their children from gay indoctrination classes. The moonbattery has become so absurd that fictitious piles of pudding are being gender-reassigned. From the UK Mail Online: Gingerbread 'person', the PC pudding: Now even biscuits can't escape the politically correct brigade

In the nursery rhyme, the Gingerbread Man fled from the clutches of an old woman and her husband.

But now he has been cornered by an even more unforgiving foe – political correctness.

Council bureaucrats have stripped gingerbread men of their gender and renamed them gingerbread ‘persons’ on menus for 400 primary schools.

Parents in Lancashire were astonished when they discovered the change.

‘It is absolutely ridiculous,’ one mother said. ‘Someone has obviously taken the effort to change this and it is almost offensive.

Almost??? Next on the hit list will be the muffin man. The muffin man? The muffin man:

Further:

‘I am all for anti-discrimination but this is a pudding. The gingerbread man is a character from a rhyme in a book, for goodness sake.’

Laura Midgley, of the Campaign Against Political Correctness, added: ‘It is totally ridiculous political correctness, nobody wants to talk about gingerbread people. They are what they are.

...The wording went out on the new autumn-winter weekly menu provided by the Lancashire School Meals Service.

Preston MP Mark Hendrick described the change as ‘daft’.

The outcry has since forced officials into an embarrassing U-turn.

They now claim renaming the biscuits was a mistake and that their gender will be reinstated as soon as possible.

Last night a spokesman for Lancashire County Council confirmed the gingerbread man would be back on school menus after Christmas.

And this wasn't the first time such absurdity has occurred:

In 2006 branches of Bakers Oven in the West Midlands changed the name of gingerbread men to gingerbread persons, but reversed the decision after opposition from the public.

It follows a series of similar decisions by councils nationwide, including the renaming of school dinner favourite Spotted Dick to Spotted Richard last year by officials in North Wales.

They said they were fed up with customers’ childish sniggering.

Good grief. As I've mentioned many times before, the moonbat capital of the planet right now has to be the U.K. There is no end to the sick stories of totalitarianism digesting the British population. Just the other month, I wrote a post regarding all parents being banned from watching even their own children on public playgrounds just in case any one of them might be a pedophile. Instead, 'play rangers' now watch the children. This is a society that is taking newborn babies away from mothers because some bureaucrats think the baby might grow up obese. Even more telling is the taking of babies if some bureaucrat deems the mother is not smart enough. The government however sees fit to market condoms to 12-year olds and irreversibly mutilate children of that same age (they also prescribe Viagra for violent child predators). This is a country where environmentalism is now an official religion, citizens are to be given concentration camp-style numbers and designated with limited 'carbon credits,' nudism is protected from discrimination, parents that oppose the gay agenda are not allowed to adopt, 'safety police' have free access to your home, paramedics are allowed to let victims die if they want to, criminals are not penalized but those that fight against them are, people are randomly arrested just for their DNA, and I could go on and on. Some subjects like the environment have become so warped that politicians in Britain think it necessary to cut their population in half for environmental benefits. Royalty has gone insane from generations of inbreeding: Prince Charles: ‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world’ from... GLOBAL WARMING. Speaking of benefit, the government pays a £30,000 annual benefit to fat people to stay home, not work, and eat. Then again, the same Britain that is going to allow TV and radio ads for abortion, has launched the thermostat police on the population, is about to foist physician-assisted suicide on the downtrodden and is going in the direction of making it available to the healthy, has a population obsessed with being de-baptised, and is close to bankruptcy.

Britain is also in full dhimmi mode. Muslims have special rights over Christians. You can get arrested for watching someone else burning of the Koran! Muslim policemen don't have to protect Jews. Britain is ground zero for the explosion of moonbattery that is corroding civilization back into the stone age.

If all of the above weren't bad enough, the entire population is subject to the barbaric and merciless National Health Service, which is the 3rd largest employer in the world and in fact employs more bureaucrats than doctors.

The saddest part about the gingerbread article is that the population fights back against the labeling of a cartoon character, but has swallowed the above roundup of other far more serious breaches of actual freedom and liberty, without hardly anyone batting an eyebrow.

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