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** And the iconic "land of chocolate" sequence, when he imagines edible roads, sign-posts, small dogs, and candy-shops (where they're having a fifty percent off sale.)

* In ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' the book 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.

* Violent J's song "Candyland" has this.

* Fairly common in ''{{Xanth}}'' books. Lots of food grows on trees, and Bink's family lives in a cottage made from cottage cheese.

* ''SagaFrontier'': Kirin's home is a giant refuge for children made out of gingerbread cookies and candy treats.

** Um, wasn't she already pretty {{Gonk}}?

* Heston Blumenthal created one of these for his themed dinner-show program. It was just big enough to walk into if you crouched, and absolutely ''everything'' was edible. [[BeyondTheImpossible Including the doormat and]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible stained "glass" windows.]]''

* Heston Blumenthal created one of these for his themed dinner-show program. It was just big enough to walk into if you crouched, and absolutely ''everything'' was edible. [[BeyondTheImpossible Including the doormat and]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible stainless steel windows.]]''

* Heston Blumenthal created one of these for his themed dinner-show program. It was just big enough to walk into if you crouched, and absolutely ''everything'' was edible. [[BeyondTheImpossible Including the doormat and]]''[[BeyondTheImpossible stainless steel windows.]]''

* Heston Blumenthal created one of these for his themed dinner-show program. It was just big enough to walk into if you crouched, and absolutely ''everything'' was edible. [[BeyondTheImpossible Including the doormat and windows.]]

* A gingerbread cottage appears in ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', although we're told the Confectionary 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/WyrdSisters'') is also described as living in a gingerbread cottage (although ''Discworld/{{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.

* A witch with a gingerbread house shows up in the first ''KingsQuest'' game. If Sir Graham tries to eat of the house, she'll turn him into [[IncrediblyLamePun a Graham cracker]].
** In the remakes, she'll only use him for lawn ornamentation if she catches him. Once you've boiled her in her own stew, you actually [[LastLousyPoint get a point if you sample the goods]].
* The closest its brother game SpaceQuest gets is a reference to CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory during the 6th game, and an EasterEgg if you use the otherwise-useless tongue icon on one of the Xenon ruins.

* ''RuleOfRose'' has a chapter called Gingerbread House. The titular house is not made of sweets - it's in fact severely dilapated country house - but it invokes the combination of lure and danger, and hints at [IAmAHumanitarian the tastes]] of its inhabitant.

* EpicMeal made one that is made '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUEpmbdZLw OF MEAT AND CHEEZ WHIZ]]!'''

The Gingerbread House is a stock location in fairy stories. It's where HanselAndGretel were nearly eaten by the witch. It's the factory in ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. It is, simply put, a building made of food, usually sweets but other variations do exist.

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*Violent J's song "Candyland" has this.