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San Francisco’s gingerbread monolith.
KGO / Screenshot by CNET
Many a household has built a gingerbread house as part of its Christmas holiday decorations. Typically, it’s small enough to fit on a platter on the dining room table. But in San Francisco, some ambitious baker/builder assembled one that’s more like a modernist skyscraper — a gingerbread monolith.
The towering baked good appeared mysteriously on Christmas morning on a promontory in San Francisco’s Corona Heights Park. It seemed to be roughly eight feet tall, its gingerbread slabs held together by icing, with a smattering of gumdrop rivets, according to local news reports and tweets from passersby.
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Monoliths are a very end-of-2020 phenomenon, though this may have been the first dessert-themed one. Beginning with the discovery of a metal monolith that had appeared in the Utah desert, bringing to mind a similar structure in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, shiny monoliths began popping up around the world, from Romania to the UK to California, too.
But like many a New Year’s resolution to avoid sweets, the gingerbread monolith wasn’t built to last. On Saturday, it collapsed, according to the city’s KGO television station and some tweeters.
Which lent an air of prophecy to a remark a day earlier by the general manager of the city’s recreation and parks department, who told KQED producer/reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez the edifice would remain “until the cookie crumbles.”
UPDATE: I asked @RecParkSF General Manager Phil Ginsburg if his staff would take down the gingerbread monolith at Corona Heights Park.
Ginsburg’s answer:
“We will leave it up until the cookie crumbles.”https://t.co/RrJ7VAilWx
β Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) December 25, 2020
Apparently, some people couldn’t resist temptation:
the gingerbread monolith is real. so real that i even watched someone lick it, and then i proceeded to say a prayer for them. on that note, merry monolith! pic.twitter.com/ceyGDbKPVB
β Josh Ackerman (@joshuaackerman) December 25, 2020
Some other tasty observations about the gingerbread monolith:
Gingerbread monolith atop Corona Heights in San Francisco this morning. And it was briefly framed by a rainbow to boot π β¨
Merry Christmas to all!!! β€οΈππ pic.twitter.com/9xZHxqo7hh
β Lydia Laurenson β€οΈ π« (@lydialaurenson) December 25, 2020
Breaking :: βSan Francisco Gingerbread Monolith opens air lock seal releasing Army of Alien Gingerbread Men bent on attacking competing Christmas treats! God help us!β pic.twitter.com/MlyFsgEc8R
β :: Evacuate Earth Now! :: (@MaasneotekC) December 25, 2020
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