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== Advertising ==
* There was an advert for a car where a full-sized replica of it was made out of cake and sweets. By the end of shooting it was out of date and couldn't be eaten.
** Subverted by the follow up "Meaner stuff" advert showing a more powerful version of the car being made of a bone chassis, melted down katanas, snake venom, barbed wire, road rubber and windscreen wipers made from crossbow parts, put together with brute strength and hi-tech tools.
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* During an episode of ''[[MAR]]'', the team (specifically, Princess Snow) fights against an ugly little girl whose signature ARM is the Gingerbread House - a house of sweets. Eating it makes her grow to sumo-like proportions, gaining superhuman strength and toughness in the process. And of course, as she grows bigger, her voice grows deeper and thicker. (Also, she turns into a [[Gonk]].)
* One such house plays into the backstory of Hansel and Gretel in ''[[Otogi Juushi Akazukin]]''.
* The titular character of ''[[Toriko]]'' lives in one, which he does eat, as well as the neighboring animals. It must be periodically rebuilt, much to the dismay of the architect.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Monica's Gang]]'': Jimmy and Maggy find the fabled house and Maggy, being a [[Big Eater]], started eating it. Fearing the witch, Jimmy tried to discourage her. In the end, they left without knowing that the witch isn't so bad as the tale suggested and Hansel and Gretel are actually her grandchildren.
* ''[[El Chavo
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' the book (and the second movie adaptation) shows why having a house made of sweets (in this case, chocolate) could be a very bad idea, especially in a hot environment. This happens when Wonka has a chocolate palace built for a prince in India, and it quickly melts after construction.
* In T.H. White's ''[[The Once and Future King|The Sword in the Stone]]'', Morgan Le Fey's house is a feast of food. Unlike most examples, this is a test. As in many folkloric accounts of Fairyland, if the boys eat anything, [[Food Chains|they will be trapped]].
** Also a subversion in that the house is so over-the-top as to be unappealing. Morgan, being a fae, has little experience of food.
* The almost forgotten nursery rhyme King Boggen:
{{quote|King Boggen, he built a fine new hall;
Pastry and piecrust, that was the wall;
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* A gingerbread cottage appears in ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'', although we're told the Confectionery School of Architecture never really caught on, even amongst witches (outside high-magic areas like the Forest of Skund, the walls go soggy). "Black" Allis Demmurge (in ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'') is also described as living in a gingerbread cottage (although ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'' claims that once she'd gone really peculiar, she "turned people into gingerbread and lived in a cottage made of frogs"). References are also made in a couple of books to health-conscious witches experimenting with crispbread, but that proved even less popular.
* Fairly common in ''[[Xanth]]'' books. Lots of food grows on trees, and Bink's family lives in a cottage made from cottage cheese.
* The titular fruit in ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'' qualifies, being a home for the anthropomorphic insects with whom James interacts.
* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'' (both the book and the movie) features a house made of Jello.
* MAD magazine (its Brazilian counterpart, at least) made a parody where, after eating too much of the gingerbread house, Hansel and Gretel started eating a house made of Alka Seltzer.
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* A witch with a gingerbread house shows up in ''[[King's Quest I|King's Quest I Quest for The Crown]]''. If Sir Graham tries to eat from the house, she'll turn him into [[Incredibly Lame Pun|a Graham cracker]].
** In the [[Fan Remake|Fan Remakes]], she'll only use him for lawn ornamentation if she catches him. Once you've boiled her in her own stew, you actually [[Last Lousy Point|get a point if you sample the goods]].
* The closest its brother game ''[[Space Quest]]'' gets is a reference to ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' during the 6th game, and an [[Easter Egg]] if you use the otherwise-useless tongue icon on one of the Xenon ruins.
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' had a building made out of cheese ([[Running Gag|and, no, it wasn't just a building ''covered'' in cheese]]).
* In ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', when Rocko tells Filburt the story of [[Hansel and Gretel]] ([[Derailed Fairy Tale|or at least tries to]]), he changes the gingerbread house to one made of healthy snacks, but Heffer changes it to a house of pizza. They argue back and forth until Filburt declares that the house be made of fishsticks.
* In one [[Chuck Jones]] ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short, Jerry hides inside a huge wheel of swiss cheese and sculpts out a home inside.
* On ''[[Futurama]]'', the Neptunians working for Robot Santa Claus beg for food despite living in gingerbread houses because "it's either food or shelter, not both."
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' featured, in a warped version of "Hansel and Gretel," a gingerbread house. Homer starts eating it, of course, prompting it to collapse. The witch yells "You fool! That was a load-bearing candy cane!"
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