Are they nuts? Bakery’s gingerbread men are turned into ‘ginger persons’

A FAMILY bakery has been criticised for selling ‘ginger persons’ instead of gingerbread men.

The decision to rebrand the traditional biscuit has gone down badly with traditionalists.

An image of ‘ginger persons’ on sale at the Thomas the Baker shop in York at a price of four for £1.20 was shared thousands of times online and provoked a heated debate.

One Twitter user said: ‘What is going on in the world they’ve always been GINGERBREAD MEN now they’re called “Gingerbread persons” the world has officially gone NUTS.’

Another wrote: ‘What on earth is our world coming too? They have always been gingerbread men!’ Others blamed ‘feminists’ and ‘snowflakes’ for the genderneutral change.

The family bakery has been in operation for almost 0 years and now has 30 shops in Yorkshire and the surrounding areas.

All its shops sell ‘ginger persons’ rather than gingerbread men and the company said this had been the case for 35 years.

Responding on Twitter, Thomas the Baker said: ‘Sorry to disappoint you all – they have been Ginger Persons since 1983! It was chosen by one of our managers in York and the name stuck. We did get a complaint from trading standards in the 80s that we were discriminating against ginger haired people - seriously!!’