Would you eat the witch's house?

Everybody's heard of Hansel & Gretel; the tale of two siblings who fell into the trap of a cannibalistic witch. Being a cannibal, the witch had planned to fatten up the unsuspecting children (and eat them of course. Weirdly, this cannibal only had an appetite for children, so watch out, kids!), who were having too much fun eating the roof of her house.

Imagine yourself in this situation. In some versions of the tale, your stepmother (in other versions, she's actually their mother) wants to kick you and your sibling out of the house, since you eat way too much (that's actually quite a rational reason to abandon your children, am I right? In my defense, these children ate so much that their parents barely had any food for themselves (or so says the results of my research)), and your father reluctantly agrees. She plans to leave you two in the woods, since adoption centers probably didn't exist back then. On the way, your clever sibling drops stones to mark the path home.

Following the trail of stones, you fall asleep in front of your home. Your stepmother coaxes your father to abandon you for a second time, and once again he reluctantly agrees, only this time he hands you a loaf of bread.

(Now this next move sounds a little stupid to me, especially considering the fact that the father gave the bread to EAT. Everybody knows that you shouldn't use food to mark your path back home, especially when you're in a forest!)

Your sibling so cleverly breaks the bread into crumbs, dropping them on the way as to mark the path home once more, since your stepmother brought you to the forest on a different path than the first. As she leaves, you go back to follow the trail of crumbs, but lo and behold! A ravenous little munchkin in the form of a bird had gobbled up the crumbs. You wander aimlessly around the forest, until the scent of sweet confections grabs your starving noses. Following the scent with the incredible smelling skills of a dog, you push away a few brambles (with no fruits on them of course) to reveal a huge house, made to satisfy your sweet tooth to your heart's content.

A frothy fountain of silky chocolate pouring down into a river of (you guessed it) more chocolate flowing under a bridge of lightly spiced gingerbread, which led to a door made of the very same biscuit, complete with a candy cane door knocker and gumdrop doorknob; a gingerbread roof on gingerbread walls, dripping in thick, sugary syrups of all kinds and topped with a fluffy layer of tangy lemon meringue to tone down the sweetness; and a garden of sugar flowers so light they could fly to wrap things up.

This sounds like the number one cause of diabetes, doesn't it? Did I oversell this mansion of sweetness that was meant to simply sate your appetite?

Perhaps I did...

Anyway, back to the big question:

Would you eat this house?

It's your choice, so you decide...

XOXO,

Aedlycia