• Iunnrais@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    People who hate raisin cookies REALLY hate raisin cookies. I don’t get the hate myself— raisins are fine. Is it a texture thing?

    Incidentally, I think there’s a good chance the story came about because of the way cookies puff up in the oven, sometimes looking a little like breathing. I can see that easily turning into “don’t open the oven too early or it’ll jump up and run away…”

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      3 days ago

      Some people don’t like raisins on their cookies, so by sprinkling raisins on himself, the gingerbread man made himself inedible / safe.

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        3 days ago

        But that arises even more questions like, why does he so angrily want to eat a years old stale gingerbread? And about the raisins, he can simply remove them.

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          3 days ago

          The gingerbread man uses a modified bacta tank to keep himself moist and scrumptious. As a side effect, he’s also super absorbent.

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          He only wants to eat it for the satisfaction after enduring years of ‘can’t catch me’.

          As for the raisins, even the slightest essence ruins the cookie.