With the typical Chicago winter in full effect, I find myself stuck inside on most nights. Since my Wii is out of commission and I wasn’t feeling Rock Band last night, we decided to try our hands at gingerbread house creation.

Thirty minutes into the building process, one thing was painfully clear: the packaged candy in these gingerbread kits are certainly not 8-bit design friendly. Think about that the next time you attempt to build a character out of Spree, heart-shaped gumdrops, gumballs, and tiny dotted candy that I am still trying to decipher.

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For the record, the gingerbread doesn’t taste that great, but the gumdrops are fabulous.