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The Messed Up Origins™ of the Gingerbread Man | Folklore Explained - Jon Solo

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Jon Solo

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@raven3067
@raven3067 2 жыл бұрын
Jon Solo: “Outrunning old people is not exactly difficult.” My grandfather beat me in a footrace all the way down the street and back.
@mikailthomas1466
@mikailthomas1466 2 жыл бұрын
That's why God says respect your elders.
@ladykoiwolfe
@ladykoiwolfe 2 жыл бұрын
My great grandmother used to pretend she needed to take breaks while climbing lighthouses so my mom could catch up. She always was in great shape.
@briansullivan5908
@briansullivan5908 2 жыл бұрын
You go grandpa
@justasentientmclarenp1879
@justasentientmclarenp1879 2 жыл бұрын
You must’ve been slow
@hospitalcakewalk
@hospitalcakewalk 2 жыл бұрын
Bro, I work with old people. A dementia resident ran away three times from our facility. She dead ass BOLTED. Ran down the hill to the large grocery store and started stealing food and hitting people. So I'm not allowed in the store anymore cuz I 'let it happen.' :(
@Dracoofthevas
@Dracoofthevas 2 жыл бұрын
I'm Hungarian, and when I was a kid, I used to hear that story a lot. In fact it was told to us kids every time of a pig slaughter, when we made Gömböc. (It's actually stuffed with cooked blood, left over meat scraps, cooked pig skin and all kind of insistence. It's also called "Pig cheese".) Still a very popular food here. As for a moral, well back in the day, every boy got a knife when he reached a certain age (I got my first one at 8). A small one at first, but a regular pocket knife in his teens. It was a handy tool for lots of reasons (I still carry one, to this day). But a lot of boys, tended to loose their knifes. So this story was a good reminder, to keep your knife on you at all times, 'coz it can save your life one day... At least that's how my Grandpa always finished the tail...
@PeterPeter-pr2hi
@PeterPeter-pr2hi 2 жыл бұрын
Hungarian here, and yeah, I heard the tale a lot in my childhood, it is a very famous one here. I wish Jon covered other Hungarian folk tales too, there is so much to unpack here.
@alicevicariously2396
@alicevicariously2396 2 жыл бұрын
Is it good?
@ratgirl34
@ratgirl34 2 жыл бұрын
Putting that on my list of foods that aren’t what they sound like and probably won’t enjoy the texture of…. I’m just thinking though, the first daughter went up to cut the dumpling down from its rope. Wouldn’t she have had a knife or something?
@PeterPeter-pr2hi
@PeterPeter-pr2hi 2 жыл бұрын
@@ratgirl34 Welp, I always just kinda assumed it was from the shock of it. Think of it in the way that she just saw a dumpling coming to life in front of her. She probably just froze in place, unable to do anything, letting the dumpling consume her. On the other hand, I guess the shepherd boy was already well aware of the danger, and therefore, acted in the best way he could. Idk, these folk tales aren't always the most logical, you kinda have to just suspend your disbelief and roll with them sometimes, especially with weird as hell stories like this one.
@ratgirl34
@ratgirl34 2 жыл бұрын
@@PeterPeter-pr2hi True enough. Sometimes finding the loop holes is like a bingo game. It’s fun as long as you don’t get to hung up on it.
@violinmissy
@violinmissy 2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading the version somewhere as a child where the fox tricks gingy by slowly sinking like one of the variations he says! It's so cool to remember this I haven't thought about this in years an now im realizing it was dark haha. Can't wait for more lore.
@RobertAyonSuarez
@RobertAyonSuarez 2 жыл бұрын
Same. I remember reading it though
@krissy172
@krissy172 2 жыл бұрын
Me too
@violinmissy
@violinmissy 2 жыл бұрын
@@RobertAyonSuarez SAME here i think the picture book we read might have been the book he used for the pictures of the fox cuz it looks so familiar when the cookie balances on his nose like that
@violinmissy
@violinmissy 2 жыл бұрын
@@krissy172 its such a nostalgic memory lol i wanna find the book now
@RobertAyonSuarez
@RobertAyonSuarez 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I want to find it too. Yeah the pictures were familiar that he used.
@becca7101
@becca7101 2 жыл бұрын
Every time I hear this story I think of shrek I can’t help it especially with the muffin man part thanks Jon solo for this I look forward to your videos every single Thursday
@carlintaylor4053
@carlintaylor4053 2 жыл бұрын
Same never knew the original story until this
@kendellstewart2090
@kendellstewart2090 2 жыл бұрын
Not the buttons, not the gumdrop buttons!
@XxSlothpoolxX
@XxSlothpoolxX 2 жыл бұрын
He hoofed and he poofed.....and he...he signed ze eviction notice....
@TheRealNormanBates
@TheRealNormanBates 2 жыл бұрын
The Muffin Man?
@gljtiamo
@gljtiamo 2 жыл бұрын
THE MUFFIN MAN!
@DoubleDealingDisarray
@DoubleDealingDisarray 2 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing of the fox "escorting" the Gingerbread Man across the river, then flipping the living snack into its mouth. The dumpling one reminds me of a folktale, but I can't recall it. All I know is, a bunch of people were eaten until someone clever got them out. But there are probably a lot of folktales like that. It doesn't surprise me, just intrigues me. Yeah, I'm weird.
@babybug6462
@babybug6462 2 жыл бұрын
When I was a girl I interpret that the gingerbread man was crossing the river to get away from the fox and drowned in the river.
@DoubleDealingDisarray
@DoubleDealingDisarray 2 жыл бұрын
@@babybug6462 Makes sense. I did too, but I always thought the Gingerbread Man was stupid to trust a fox to take him anywhere. X) Never trust a fox or a wolf in tales like those.
@atbanimations1763
@atbanimations1763 2 жыл бұрын
That version of The Little Dumpling was probably from a cartoon because I remember it as well, just with a different ending.
@helenamirian908
@helenamirian908 2 жыл бұрын
I think a pig ate a pancake that was rolling away in the same way in one version.
@DoubleDealingDisarray
@DoubleDealingDisarray 2 жыл бұрын
@@helenamirian908 Lol! Nice!
@timothyryders6248
@timothyryders6248 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, Jon Solo, my name's Timothy and I'm from Kyrgyzstan, which was the part of USSR. After the Soviet union fallen apart. I used to listen and read the tale about the Russian counterpart of the Gingerbread man or gingerbread boy. It's called Kolobok and it's the same as Brothers Grimm's pancake
@Logitah
@Logitah 2 жыл бұрын
I'm Finnish and we used to have a small wooden chest with handpainted illustrations of that tale! My parents had gotten it from a Russian acquaintance who made and decorated it with his wife! In short, I was reading this tale before I knew how to read. :D
@conniecarroll747
@conniecarroll747 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Timothy ! Got any good Russian folk fairytale titles you'd like to share ! I'm trying to collect some from other countries.
@ArinJager1
@ArinJager1 2 жыл бұрын
I'm czech and I know about kolobok ^^ (I think there was a kids magazine with that name, also - a soviet thing, it was my dad's probably, I'm not THAT old... I can't read cyrilic, but I remember there was a manual to make a paper airplane, lol... thinks a person remembers, right? But not the important stuff, like "did I lock the door when going out?" Immediately out of my mind)... In Czech Republic the gingerbread boy is "koblížek" - basically a doughnut
@user-lj6rj8bw1s
@user-lj6rj8bw1s 9 ай бұрын
Baba-Yaga @@conniecarroll747
@secretserenity44127
@secretserenity44127 2 жыл бұрын
I can't believe the Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka didn't make it into this video! That was one of my favorite Gingerbread Man variants when I was growing up. Awesome video as usual!
@jbear3478
@jbear3478 2 жыл бұрын
I remember that one!!
@goober112
@goober112 Жыл бұрын
Omg this was exactly what popped in my head when he's like "where were you when you first heard the story of the gingerbread man. Lol
@gloriamontgomery6900
@gloriamontgomery6900 Жыл бұрын
I used to direct and perform in a reader’s theater group that performed in schools for children. Out most popular story adaptation of all time was the Stinky Cheese Man!
@stanleywaters2619
@stanleywaters2619 11 ай бұрын
Omg!!! I thought the same thing
@spicybeantofu
@spicybeantofu 6 ай бұрын
Yup lol
@yourlocaltrickstergod
@yourlocaltrickstergod 2 жыл бұрын
I'm a 17 year old trying to get back into folklore and mythology when I used to be obsessed with it when I was younger and your videos honestly help me remember why I fell in love with it in the first place, a very sincere thank you from me to you 😭
@ajsofaygo1351
@ajsofaygo1351 2 жыл бұрын
Same 😭
@Calc_Ulator
@Calc_Ulator 7 ай бұрын
Dumbest pfp ever. Got a store to loot rather than pollute here?
@RJPolito
@RJPolito 2 жыл бұрын
Strangely when I was little I had one of those book and record sets and in that version the Gingerbread Man does not get eaten. It ends with the line, "As far as we know the Gingerbread Man is still running away." So that was the version I originally heard and it was a surprise when I found out the original and more common ending. At first you might think since this book and record was made for little kids they decided to have a happier ending, except the same series also had a version of Chicken Little that ended with Foxy Loxy eating everyone including Chicken Little herself. In most versions Chicken Little ends up running back home after realizing what the fox was up to.
@aprilgosa5779
@aprilgosa5779 2 жыл бұрын
i thought Foxy loxy was Henny Penny thats the one I had the book but i do remember the one of these i heard he got away supposedly so I like that version better no like this version very sad
@thomasnuedling9167
@thomasnuedling9167 2 жыл бұрын
Show n Tell? It was a record player that played film strips, too??? I had one and many fairy tales made for it.
@cooperminion825
@cooperminion825 2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading a version to some preschoolers that didn't even include foxy loxy. It had chicken little and the gang actually meeting the king who explains to them that the sky isn't falling. He simply tells them that chicken little had an acorn fall on her head and that she didn't have to worry. The kids hated it, i hated it, but the parents loved it
@harmonijarvis571
@harmonijarvis571 2 жыл бұрын
I've heard both versions
@atbanimations1763
@atbanimations1763 2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Eastern Europe, I grew up with the Flatbread version, but also heard The Little Dumpling on a cartoon about Hungarian folklore (I think the cartoon was called "Hungarian Folk Tales"), and I actually loved the story as a 7 year old. It wasn't until I was 6 when I heard the Gingerbread Man story at an English class. I find it quite fascinating how different our perceptions of these folk tales are depending on where we live. Edit: The version I heard of THE LITTLE DUMPLING was actually called "The Pork Pudding"
@SlapstickGenius23
@SlapstickGenius23 2 жыл бұрын
Pork pudding or pork bun?
@atbanimations1763
@atbanimations1763 2 жыл бұрын
@@SlapstickGenius23 Pork Pudding
@medo5417
@medo5417 2 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this story a lot when I was younger, it didn't horrify me as much as a lot of other stories though. Chicken Lickin, The boy who cried wolf and Ali Baba were all pretty terrifying, and don't even get me started on the story about the baby goats getting tricked by the wolf...
@camrynbrewer2370
@camrynbrewer2370 2 жыл бұрын
The last one is called “The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids”, I think.
@fabrisseterbrugghe8567
@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 2 жыл бұрын
The 3 Billy Goats Gruff was one that scared me. I think I heard it first in Sunday School.
@cooperminion825
@cooperminion825 2 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the most gruesome Grimm tales
@Eminster
@Eminster Жыл бұрын
@@cooperminion825 I guess you could say they were quite "Grimm"
@cooperminion825
@cooperminion825 Жыл бұрын
@@Eminster lol
@jamesevans7388
@jamesevans7388 2 жыл бұрын
Not the BUTTONS! Not the Gumdrop BUTTONS!!
@jessicacommans1684
@jessicacommans1684 2 жыл бұрын
Gumdrop buttons
@Joe-ug2mb
@Joe-ug2mb Жыл бұрын
there is a story from ancient Greece called "The Gingerbread Boy" that features a boy made of barley meal and honey who runs away from his creator and eventually meets a fox, who tricks him into getting eaten. This story shares many similarities with "The Gingerbread Man," although it has a different ending. I'm willing to bet it's related to the story of icarus.
@Agent_3141
@Agent_3141 2 жыл бұрын
This should be interesting. I remember reading this story (and many other variations) when I was in Kindergarten
@meppep6733
@meppep6733 2 жыл бұрын
I remember where I first heard this story. I was in my school’s library, I was almost definitely in a school uniform, and yes, 4 or 5 year old me was certainly disturbed. My teachers tried to say the story was about not have too much pride. I mean... I guess it could about that? If you squint?
@TheRealNormanBates
@TheRealNormanBates 2 жыл бұрын
A lot of fairy tales are about hubris and how naivety can get you killed. "So, Mr. Rabbit.. do you have a problem with shit sticking to your fur?" "Why no, Mr. Bear.. why do you ask?" Mr. Bear picks up Mr. Rabbit and proceeds to wipe his ass with Mr. Rabbit.
@ladykoiwolfe
@ladykoiwolfe 2 жыл бұрын
I thought it was about being careful who you trust there at the end. Sure pride right up until then, but then trust issues hit hard.
@harmonijarvis571
@harmonijarvis571 2 жыл бұрын
My mom told me it was either about not bousting or not trusting people you don't know
@ladykoiwolfe
@ladykoiwolfe 2 жыл бұрын
@@harmonijarvis571 I'd say she's not wrong. There a lot of lessons you can learn from this story. Those are two good ones.
@tarawalker7193
@tarawalker7193 2 жыл бұрын
I remember - I had a fairy tale book that I loved as a kid and used to read all the time. In that version, he was created for the baker's grandson. After escaping everyone else, he finally ran across the little boy. Somehow knowing who the boy was and that he was created for the child to eat, the gingerbread man slowed down his pace on purpose so the child could catch him and eat him. Gotta love the 80s!
@arselcrusader5600
@arselcrusader5600 2 жыл бұрын
The Dumpling story can't scar me anymore because I'm already scarred by a nightmare from my childhood. It was about a bagpipe that eats stuff and turns it into gold after excreting it from the backside (Don't ask me why a bagpipe, it just was). It got larger because people kept feeding it, then it went on a rampage eating people the moment it was able to. People were turned into gold statues. Forgot how it was stopped, but it turns out the thing was possessed by a demo
@kimmiemore8134
@kimmiemore8134 3 ай бұрын
Ok, so I don't normally comment on things from two years prior... but I had to. As a child, that dream must have been terrifying... but I find it hilarious, lol. So, thank you for the story 😆
@DoritosAndMountainDew
@DoritosAndMountainDew 2 жыл бұрын
By the way, L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz", wrote another book, "John Dough and the Cherub", and the character of John Dough seems to be based on the story of the Gingerbread Man. Just thought that was worth mentioning.
@inkyboy88
@inkyboy88 2 жыл бұрын
He also wrote “The Life and Times of Santa Claus.”
@Logitah
@Logitah 2 жыл бұрын
That's so cool! I had no idea he made a version of this too!
@kaydisney9872
@kaydisney9872 2 жыл бұрын
I STILL love those 15 Oz books! And I'm an adult!!!
@kaydisney9872
@kaydisney9872 2 жыл бұрын
Oh and every Christmas I listen to the Santa Clause books!
@conniecarroll747
@conniecarroll747 2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately never read any of his books.
@blackrex828
@blackrex828 2 жыл бұрын
The earliest memory I can remember of hearing the story/song of the Gingerbread Man was on a field trip as a small child on some kind of farm. I was with my class and my mom was there. I just can't remember the actual date or what I was wearing, but I remember my was wearing her rain jacket. That's it. So there Mr. Solo, I can almost remember when and where I heard this story/song. Parts of this memory just lingers with me for some reason.
@crypticcorgi8280
@crypticcorgi8280 2 жыл бұрын
I have this vague memory of the fox tricking a gingerbread man from my childhood. Even then, I didn't associate it with the "Run, run, run" lyrics. Infact I never questioned where it came from wierdly. Neat. Now I want to know about the Muffin Man. What's his deal?
@lextonwilliams2627
@lextonwilliams2627 2 жыл бұрын
Yes I have been waiting for messed up organs of the Ginger bread man😁😁😁
@DeJahMode
@DeJahMode 2 жыл бұрын
Lol that scene as soon as he said “Do you know the muffin man?and the banter they do my mom started laughing in a way I never seen her laugh to a “child’s movie”. I personally was a fan of the stinky cheese man i loved that book “ The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales”.
@kennethjames9999
@kennethjames9999 2 жыл бұрын
Yes Stinky Cheese Man was the best.
@kobieravenhenderson1756
@kobieravenhenderson1756 2 жыл бұрын
All have good lessons. The Hungarian tale of the dumpling has a common lesson seen in scary movies. Don't go upstairs alone and also, always be armed with something.
@Melody-un1id
@Melody-un1id 2 жыл бұрын
All I could think of during this video was the book from my childhood about the Sticky Cheese Man. Same story but with stinky cheese and comedy.
@geekgirl616
@geekgirl616 2 жыл бұрын
You should do some Egyptian mythology I’m sad you haven’t done any because you’re my go to for reliable information on myths legends and fables and I wanted to brush up for moonknight
@nanoglitch6693
@nanoglitch6693 2 жыл бұрын
The Hungarian Folk Tales channel has an animated version of the dumpling story. Fair warning though: that channel is dangerously binge-able :)
@janet6421
@janet6421 2 жыл бұрын
Especially when they do compilation videos
@TheMightyPALADIN
@TheMightyPALADIN 2 жыл бұрын
One thing that might suprise you is that there are versions of the story where Gingy escapes from the fox and returns to live in the safety of the old couple's home as their child as they intended. The lesson here being that you need to stay home where it's safe and not go running away getting into trouble, at least until your older. I like these versions best of all because I had a gingerbread man toy as a child and loved him, so I always wanted him to have a happy ending.
@hopejordan2997
@hopejordan2997 2 жыл бұрын
Gingerbread Man is one of my favorite fables! I have very fond memories of my Kindergarten teacher reading us the story then the class walked out into the hallway to follow the "gingerbread man's footprints" all the way to the cafateria where we all got to eat gingerbread men cookies. 😁
@exoticraptor9436
@exoticraptor9436 2 жыл бұрын
A variation that I grew up with was one about either stinky and rotten cheese, with the main difference being that whenever he tries to challenge someone into chasing him, they all quit because of how bad he smells. It ends with him stopping at a river. A fox offers him a ride across, wanting to eat him, but he falls back on his plan when he gets a whif of him. It's been years so I forgot if the fox ducked his head in the river and the cheese fell in or the cheese just walked in thinking he could make it across, but it just ends with him falling apart in the water and dying.
@whyiamafs
@whyiamafs 10 ай бұрын
What's the lesson of that? 🥺
@mleighqs
@mleighqs 2 жыл бұрын
The last version of the story made me think of Haggis :) . Over all the idea of alive runaway foods always made me giggle as a kid.
@AustynSN
@AustynSN 2 жыл бұрын
A variant of the version with two "run"s and the fox tricking The Gingerbread Man into climbing to his (the fox's) nose is what I've always known.
@vivienballard391
@vivienballard391 Жыл бұрын
I remember hearing The Gingerbread Man in an episode of Between the Lions. I also remember the first day of kindergarten. Our teacher took us around the school to hunt for the gingerbread man, & when we returned to the classroom, each of us had a gingerbread man on our desk.
@Mimi22668
@Mimi22668 2 жыл бұрын
I remember being told this story with the fox eating Gingy after tricking him. The story of the pig stomach reminds me of a story about a wolf eating a family and the family had to be cut out of the wolf's tummy. Something like that. 🤷🏽‍♀️
@catinthewater7969
@catinthewater7969 2 жыл бұрын
Some variations of “Little Red Riding Hood” include the huntsman cutting open the wolf’s stomach to rescue Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.
@ArinJager1
@ArinJager1 2 жыл бұрын
yeah, what Cat in the Water above me said (Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma are cut out from the wolf by the huntsman... then they stuff his now empty stomach with rocks and stones, sew him together, then he wakes up and is thirsty, leans into a well to drink... and falls down and drowns and dies... pretty rough, eh?)
@zdanee
@zdanee 2 жыл бұрын
I originally only knew the Hungarian version and only learned about the Gingerbread man as an adult from Shrek. However I think that tale belongs to a different classification: a tale where a family member is asked to do a common task, but fails to accomplish it due to some unforeseen hurdle, and one by one all the family members meet the same fate trying to help them, until the smallest son somehow solves the situation, the end. One such tale from Hungarian folktales would be "The small fur coat", where during a wedding the daughter is asked to go down the basement to bring some wine for the party, but she sees a big stone used to make sour cabbage down there and she imagines once she'll have a small child, and this child will have a small fur coat and will come down here to play and the stone will fall upon it and it will die and whatever will she do then with the small fur coat, and this saddens her so much that she starts to cry. Later all the family members looking for her comes down to see what's up and one by one she tell them this and they all stay down there crying. The groom notices everybody had gone missing, find the whole family crying in the basement, and upon hearing their reason gets really upset how stupid the whole family is and cancels the wedding until he can find 3 people that are more stupid than them. He goes on a quest and indeed finds more idiots, one trying to bring sunshine into a windowless room with a bag, one trying to load walnuts to the attic with a pitchfork and one trying to knit a sweater by putting the sheep on the spinning wheel. After that he goes back and marries the idiot girl, but at the end of the story the idiot girl wastes all their food and they are starving so he sends her back to their parents and decides to stay single without a wife. There is no small child and no small fur coat later in the story so the title is a bit misleading...
@cainherrera643
@cainherrera643 2 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard the story of the Gingerbread Man was on a kids show called Between the Lions. It was the version where the fox tricks the Gingerbread Man. Anyone else remember Between the Lions?
@SuperDarkria
@SuperDarkria 2 жыл бұрын
My grandmother had story books with both the Gingerbread Man and the Runaway Pancake. I recognise that first illustration of the Gingerbread man being in the book :D
@PedroHernandez-uy3pi
@PedroHernandez-uy3pi 2 жыл бұрын
I answered yes to all the questions at the beginning except for what o was wearing I was 5 in kindergarten learning English having storytime in Socorro what I was wearing... Idk something from goodwill probably God damn it's been a long time
@tenebrousoul9368
@tenebrousoul9368 2 жыл бұрын
my babysitter Princess would tell us fables with our afternoon snack, if we were good about taking naps.
@kokichisimp9660
@kokichisimp9660 2 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I heard the gingerbread man I was in first grade in the library the library teacher straight up just told use the story then after that I went home crying because I realized I was going to eventually die to
@renee.c.seymour
@renee.c.seymour 2 жыл бұрын
I'm Hungarian and I used to listen to all of these Hungarian stories and even had a collection of cartoons of these folktales definitely still watch em till this day
@thedanielstraight
@thedanielstraight 2 жыл бұрын
I think it also speaks to how those people you choose surround yourself with influence you and potentially change your life. If you aren't careful, you get swept up in their drama and conflama.
@LiveFreeOrDie2A
@LiveFreeOrDie2A Жыл бұрын
The pig stomach one could be a lesson about gluttony? It’s about a literal pig’s stomach who met it’s demise because it refused to stop consuming. The fact it starts with a family that’s exhausted their food supply also fits well.
@IshbelJekyllhyde
@IshbelJekyllhyde 2 жыл бұрын
Funny enough, I do remember the first time I heard the story; we had a collection of cassettes (that old) with children stories from different countries translated to my L1, and in one of them, this story was the second on one side. I heard it before going to bed, so hearing this video is the exact re-enactment of how I heard the first time... Also, the one I heard was where the fox tricks the gingerbread man to climb to its nose and I loved that part because it felt like karma (gingy did mean pranks on everyone and that's why they chased him). Oh and I hated the gingerbread man, which makes really funny that my favourite Shrek characters are gingy, Puss and mongo, in that order
@conniecarroll747
@conniecarroll747 2 жыл бұрын
Now that you mentioned it, I could have heard this story long time ago . I was a member of the, don't laugh Mickie Mouse Clubhouse back in the 60s where I had several of old vinyl records. Am I the only one here that old? They were a orange 🍊 color unfortunately no longer have any of them as a relative destroyed all of them but believe they had several stories on them. Wow ! Thanks that just brought back memories!
@ambermeridy7550
@ambermeridy7550 2 жыл бұрын
I almost cried when he said that stories about runaway food have been told for a long time because it dawned on me that my beloved Gingy was the reason for Sausage Party
@texasaquarius01
@texasaquarius01 Жыл бұрын
I had several different versions of this story as children’s books growing up. I def remember being very upset and scared about the cookie getting eaten
@daveshn
@daveshn 2 жыл бұрын
"The shepherd boy had a knife in his pocket." What was the army using? Blunt sticks?
@MoltenIce777
@MoltenIce777 2 жыл бұрын
They could have used their guns to shoot out of the stomach.
@krealyesitisbeta5642
@krealyesitisbeta5642 2 жыл бұрын
Everyone: “Wow Germany, you’re version was so very wholesome. Now Hungary, it’s your turn~” Hungary: “(Deep breath).” (Hours later) Everyone else: 😨
@ViridisEve
@ViridisEve 2 жыл бұрын
In Bulgaria we have similar folktale with a honeybread (wich we usually make round). The honeybread rolls away from an old couple, bunny, wolf, bear and then gets tricked by a fox that pretends to not hear well.
@eli-he9nz
@eli-he9nz 2 жыл бұрын
i used to work in a nursery and we still read this story to 2-4 year olds, it’s simple and repetitive in nature so it’s easy for them to remember and is a good way to test their memory. you’d be surprised at how many kids stories have animals eating things, people, other animals, gingerbread men in this case, as an aspect of the story, even if it doesn’t actually end up happening. they can get pretty violent too. the amount of times i’ve read a different version of red riding hood and it ends in them filling the wolf’s stomach with rocks, and even throwing him in the river once, is kind of wild. three billy goats gruff was always a favourite where i used to work and i have no idea why, but that one ends with the largest billy goat pushing the troll off the bridge and into the river. kids like violent stories i guess
@grapeshot
@grapeshot 2 жыл бұрын
Well he could be worse after all the gingerbread man could be possessed by the spirit of Gary Busey.
@kkcake5771
@kkcake5771 2 жыл бұрын
Who is Gary Busey?
@grapeshot
@grapeshot 2 жыл бұрын
@@kkcake5771 look it up Google is your friend.
@kkcake5771
@kkcake5771 2 жыл бұрын
@@grapeshot 🙂
@JV-bc8um
@JV-bc8um 2 жыл бұрын
It says two comments but I can't see them. Hello Jon! 👋
@ladykoiwolfe
@ladykoiwolfe 2 жыл бұрын
I do remember, perhaps not the first time, but definitely who I was with because it was a regular feature. It was one of my early childhood books, one of the first ones I learned to read from. My mother would read it to me, some times my brother would as he learned to read, and then I would try to read it. I was mostly non verbal so I was trying to read the books to myself. The other books were largely Dr. Seuss and other Little Golden Books. The picture you showed of Gingy on the Fox's nose was in the version I had as a kid. It always seemed odd that I remembered being able to read before I could speak, but writing it out it's making a lot more sense.
@caramelbrown2174
@caramelbrown2174 2 жыл бұрын
Definitely elementary school. One of those carpet reads. Also, you should do a section on Hungarian folktales. None of them have a moral but some have similar plotlines to stories we know.
@knitcrochettiger361
@knitcrochettiger361 2 жыл бұрын
Queen Elizabeth could have had a cooking hobby, she's the queen, it's her right to have a hobby...after all her cousin, Queen Marry of Scotts did have a gardening thing....she was quite contrary growing silver bells and cockerel shells....she loved her maids all in a row
@lafregaste
@lafregaste 2 жыл бұрын
Question, did you checked when other countries started making gingerbread cookies? Cause Hungary has a tradition of making them but I don't know when that started. Also, I had already heard the pig stomach's story thou as a "pig pudding", love Hungarian folktale. And I love that story the most, I find it funny, to me is not terrifying, it's just nonsensical
@conniecarroll747
@conniecarroll747 2 жыл бұрын
A lot of countries started marking cookies from wooden cut out pieces, I've forgotten the names it started with a 'L' but they're about 10"to 12" high they would look like people and are still popular today. My memory isn't that great but the craft has been around for centuries, back then they were more detailed as Jon mentioned in Queen Elizabeth's time they would resemble people so would given as gifts 🎁. The artisans who did this were as good as those who painted miniatures we see on the sleeves in paintings 🖼.
@cristopherj1324
@cristopherj1324 2 жыл бұрын
I'm loving the extra spice (6:21 8:27) being added in the newest episodes, keep up the great work.
@lilgnomey
@lilgnomey 2 жыл бұрын
It’s not so much food running away as food going on an adventure, but there’s an Australian kids’ story from 1918ish about a magic pudding that goes on an adventure with a koala, a wombat, a possum and a Bunyip. The tale is inventively called The Magic Pudding. Was turned into a puppet TV show in the 80s/early 90s.
@connordwyer6389
@connordwyer6389 2 жыл бұрын
whoever sees this have a great day
@Alvin-gb6fv
@Alvin-gb6fv 3 ай бұрын
Thank you, kind and generous lady. No comments, lemme fix that as well.
@jayde04
@jayde04 2 жыл бұрын
Heyyyyyyyy.....first
@deedeewashington6995
@deedeewashington6995 Жыл бұрын
I haven’t watched your videos in awhile but recently I watched rapunzel origin, and for three days I’ve been binge watching and liking all your videos. Thank you so much for doing this videos.
@devinkrike5968
@devinkrike5968 Жыл бұрын
I know I am late to the party, but russians also have similar story. Its a story about Kolobok, a round pastry of sorts. It goes something like this, grandma bakes him, he runs away and whenever he is caught by someone, he goes "Don't eat me, I am gonna sing you a song in return" and then he proceeds to sing a song how he got away from his previous captors. That is until he meets a fox. So yeah, very similar to the other stories of this nature.
@reneephillips9012
@reneephillips9012 2 жыл бұрын
Yall so quick. I thought I would be the first one to comment lol
@facelesscat1138
@facelesscat1138 2 жыл бұрын
I've heard the story where the fox tricks the gingerbread man when I was younger, like in pre-school or something, so I vaguely remember it. I didn't think about how gruesome it was and I never thought about there being other versions of the story. Anyway, I can't wait for next week's video!
@bethmorgan7024
@bethmorgan7024 2 жыл бұрын
As a kid my Mom used to read me a book called "Journey Cake, Ho!" by Ruth Sawyer from 1953 that is basically the same story but with a flapjack that would say "catch me and eat me as I roll by!"
@owouwuowuuwo
@owouwuowuuwo 2 жыл бұрын
this book was absolutely HUGE in my elementary school. literally EVERYONE read this book and i remember feeling so cool because i knew that tale before everyone else. i first was read the book when i was four, and i remember screaming at him my second time reading it 'DONT CLIMB ON THE FOX! DONT TRUST HIM!'
@LordMareus
@LordMareus Жыл бұрын
I don't remember WHEN I heard it, but I recall a version where he bragged about everyone he beat, as well as using the iconic, "Run, run, run..." line after each bout. If I remember correctly, it ended with the fox tricking him in the river.
@darriendastar3941
@darriendastar3941 2 жыл бұрын
This was why I love this channel so much. I clicked on this thinking I'd learn stuff - and then realised I had been told this story years and years and years ago. I can't remember whether my mother told it to me or read it from a book. But it brought back such good memories. Tangent: you mentioned "Saving Private Ryan". A friend of mine was a 'stunt' amputee on the film. He'd lost his lower leg to cancer when he was a kid and used a prosthetic. For the landing scene on the film, Spielberg needed lots of amputees so they could have scenes of limbs being blown off. My friend spent several weeks being filmed jerking around on a beach and flicking his prosthetic as far as he could. He said it was one of the most fun experiences of his life and made enough money to put down a sizeable deposit on a flat in London. Even though I told him the Second World War didn't work like that, he kept on hoping they'd make "Saving Private Ryan 2".
@elizabethnelms2564
@elizabethnelms2564 2 жыл бұрын
Love it! Thanks Jon. Kids today are learning this story. 1 st grade teachers I know do a unit on The Gingerbread Man. They use several versions from story books.
@bocar4127
@bocar4127 2 жыл бұрын
I had heard of the standard “Run, run, run,” version like most other kids but my parents had bought “The Runaway Rice Cake” book and that’s the version that I think of immediately when someone mentions the gingerbread man
@Syeona
@Syeona 2 жыл бұрын
I have seen every single last one of your videos and I can without a doubt say that this is the most messed up story I have ever heard in my entire history of watching your videos. Scarred for life thank you very much.
@Basium1
@Basium1 2 жыл бұрын
My first variation was the Stinky Cheese Man. My parents weren't big into reading to me so I had to read these tales on my own. It was in a book called "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales". Its a good laugh.
@haywardgarner4850
@haywardgarner4850 2 жыл бұрын
This is a personal favorite. The ugly duckling told in this book is a favorite read-aloud. The puzzled looks from most of the kids. The snickering from the kids that got the joke.
@kendellstewart2090
@kendellstewart2090 2 жыл бұрын
The original version I know is the Fox carrying him across the river and eating him. I have also read the pancake and the cake version.
@v3ru586
@v3ru586 2 жыл бұрын
Hungarian here, I always considered the story of the little dumpling a warning. If you're greedy like the dumpling, it will end as badly as for you as for him. I think it was even pointed out for me, after I read the story.
@winters0lider976
@winters0lider976 2 жыл бұрын
Every year at my work (daycare) my coworker makes gingerbread men and reads the kids the story. Then the gingerbread "run away" complete with crumb trails hopping off the table into the chairs and onto the tile to the door. The kids love it and we go on a "gingerbread hunt" and we look for them, then we read "the gingerbread baby" which shows how to catch a gingerbread man. We decorate a gingerbread house like in the book and then we go out for recess. And by the time we come back all the gingerbread men have returned and we have to eat them before they run away again
@prettyprincess8187
@prettyprincess8187 2 жыл бұрын
I remember the rhyme bc my mom bought these huge books of nursery rhymes when I was a baby and she'd read them to me. They were my favorite.
@davidroddick91
@davidroddick91 2 жыл бұрын
I'm one of those who only heard the rhyme, not knowing the full story. But I knew the gist of it: he's running away and challenging people to try and catch him. And I remember it with just two runs: "Run, run, as fast as you can."
@richewilson6394
@richewilson6394 2 жыл бұрын
I was in the 1st grade when I heard of it. It was the scorpion the Frog tale. I think the Hungarian dumpling story was telling people to be aware of your surroundings and to always carry some sort of a weapon with you.
@TheWdayton
@TheWdayton 2 жыл бұрын
The second version with the tricky Fox is one of the first ever stories I remember my mother reading to me. That would’ve been late 1970’s or early 80’s. I loved it, though I did sometimes wish he had gotten away.
@jonahdrumm7901
@jonahdrumm7901 2 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing the version where the fox tricked the gingerbread man.
@Yamp44
@Yamp44 2 жыл бұрын
When I was young, we had a book with accompanying 45 rpm record (yes, I'm that old) that told the story of the gingerbread man with the ending where the fox trick him into crossing the river on it's back. There was even a little earworm song about the gingerbread man singing and taunting everyone to try and catch him. I can still sing parts of it even if I haven't heard it in 35 years...
@Morri21
@Morri21 Жыл бұрын
I had a book when I was younger about the run away Pan cake,it was funny 😂😂
@streamagoraphobic8565
@streamagoraphobic8565 2 жыл бұрын
There was an ad of a runaway roti (slim bread) aired on national television saying "mujhe pakdo to khao". I feel like this ad was inspired from the gingy story but it was a part of my childhood.
@reno.corona
@reno.corona 2 жыл бұрын
My first grade teacher introduced The Gingerbread Man to our class in a really cool way! She read the story to us at the beginning of the year, with a "real" little gingerbread man that escaped from the classroom. Once a week we got a letter from him, leaving clues to where he was around the world. We had to guess where he was, Carmen San Diego-style, to try to catch him. Our last letter at the end of the year left clues he was in the classroom, and when we "caught" him our teacher threw us a party and handed out gingerbread cookie men! It was really cool and creative!
@briannacook839
@briannacook839 2 жыл бұрын
1. My favorite modern variant is the stinky cheese man 2.there’s an African story like the dumpling one but it’s a pumpkin and this boy(I think) hides from it in a cave (cause the pumpkin can’t fit in) and eventually sneaks up in the pumpkin (when the pumpkin is it’s own island) and stabs it a bunch with a spear
@thomaschapman5263
@thomaschapman5263 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the origin stories I'm in my mid 60s and heard when I was a child good luck I look forward to your next one thank you again
@joeyprince5564
@joeyprince5564 2 жыл бұрын
I died when he said “oh no my leg!, my leg!, there’s so much frosting!”
@charlottesavage5966
@charlottesavage5966 2 жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember as a kid reading one where like, it was a chocolate soldier who was in the shop but wanted to explore, and ended up like melting down the drain etc and attempting wildly to get back to the shop window when he realised that the outside world was scary Same book was gingerbread man story and I remember that was where I first heard it cos my grandparents read it to me lol
@sunilpermaul7876
@sunilpermaul7876 2 жыл бұрын
I always found the moral to be "don't be arrogant/don't press your luck".
@user-ph6nx2xg9v
@user-ph6nx2xg9v 2 жыл бұрын
Funny enough, in our land there is not only a story similar to that of gingerbread man (Kolobok - or Runaway cake. Basically the same thing) But also a story similar to that about runaway dumpling (But it starts differently. An old potman wants a kid, so he makes one of clay, calling him Glin'ka. But the clayboy is gluttonous, and first he eats all potman's food. When they are out of food, Glinka eats potman. Then he goes outside eating everything he came across. But he was outwitted by a goat, who crashed into clayboy, breaking him to pieces)
@spencer.eccles
@spencer.eccles 2 жыл бұрын
In my family, we always chanted it at the beach when playing that game where you see how close you can chase and run away from the waves without getting your feet wet
@mwatson4970
@mwatson4970 2 жыл бұрын
Cute Penny! Also, what about the meatball, i.e. " 🎶 on top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese 🎵 ..."? I remember reading the Ginger bread Man story in a collection of fairytale as kid and somewhere seeing the Chinese Dumpling tale on like a kids video some years later.
@BlindGirlUK
@BlindGirlUK 9 ай бұрын
I was taught the 'fox swims slowly lowering itself into the water' version as a kid (I was born in 2001 England.)
@kcthesledgestoryteller
@kcthesledgestoryteller 2 жыл бұрын
Between the first grade alcove and my grandma’s library I went through several sessions of following the book, accompanied by vinyl/cassette narrating. Both had the moral, “That’s what a Gingerbread Man is for.” In one of them, Gingy outran a horse.
@amandapike2477
@amandapike2477 2 жыл бұрын
A version I was told had the fox trick Gingy by pretending he was hard of hearing so he'd come closer and closer to repeat his taunt until he was close enough to just be gobbled up.
@karsata
@karsata Жыл бұрын
I've been told the russian version of this (kolobok) as a kid and it's kinda facinating how the same theme snuck in to all cultures and folklore spreading like gossipe or a virus, splitting into different variations
@5teamTrain
@5teamTrain 2 жыл бұрын
My mom told me the gingerbread man story when we were baking sugar cookies and I wanted to use the cut out shaped like a person. It was such a natural story to tell while you're teaching your child to bake, and when the fox ate the cookie at the end and the gingerbread man says I'm 1/4 gone, 1/2 gone, and 3/4 gone it, we were actually eating the cookies so I really never thought of the gingerbread man as sentient. He was always just a cookie that "played a game" of taunting people to catch him before he got eaten. As weird as it sounds as an adult, as a kid it was a baking lesson, math lesson, gym lesson all wrapped up in a funny story where we got to run around and eat a cookie. I do remember the fox in the water part from a fairy tale book I got when I was older(that part did make me nervous when the gingerbread man got closer and closer to his head), but I had already heard the version from my mom and knew that that he would get eaten at the end so I wasn't surprised or sad.
@jagirl966
@jagirl966 2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, we did a parody of this tale called "Popsicle Boy".
@evestone5361
@evestone5361 2 жыл бұрын
I remember this tale crossing the river in the 50's from my old neighborhood, she had a old book also.
@docmccrimmon4489
@docmccrimmon4489 Жыл бұрын
That last one with the dumpling reminds me of a really weird, campy movie I’d seen ages ago, called Rubber, about a runaway tire that starts killing people.
@TNHawke
@TNHawke 2 жыл бұрын
I remember. I was sitting on the floor of the tiny kitchen in the tiny studio apartment we lived in at roughly 4 years old. I had my record player plugged in, and I had a bunch of story 45rpm records to play on it, complete with story books. The Ginger Bread Man was one of those records, complete with horrifying ending of the fox eating him up as they cross the river- chomp slurp gulp! ha ha.
@gred_and_forge
@gred_and_forge 2 жыл бұрын
hears the story of "The Little Dumpling":😱😨 *what the-* 'the shepherd boy cut the dumpling, releasing everyone':😌😅 *you had me in the first half, not gonna lie, haha* i love ur videos, i knew some of the classic Grim fairytales, but stories like "The Little Dumpling" and the history behind these stories are why i love watching these vids💖 thank you for all the effort and work you put into creating these videos for us to enjoy😊 also, Penny is soo cute😍!!!
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