The words ‘delicious’ and ‘Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant’ don’t exactly go hand in hand.
But a gingerbread version of the Shit Tits (sorry) took top honors at the Museum of the City of New York’s annual competition in December.
This year’s theme was ‘Iconic New York.’ Both professional and amateur bakers competed to recreate beloved locations across the five boroughs. The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge all received a rendering in cookies-and-candies.
However, these cultural behemoths were no match for a more idiosyncratic icon, one that calls Greenpoint home. Kate Sigrist baked and crafted the project.
Greenline reports that Sigrist earned three awards for her gingerbread creation—Best Borough Spirit, Most Unique, and Best Overall.
“It’s lovely. The standard is insane. I’ve visited the last two years, but I had never taken part. So just being in it is incredible, but when I walked in to install last week, my mind was blown,” Sigrist said in a video shared to the Museum’s YouTube channel.
The exhibit closes on January 19, so check it out while you still can!
It’s sad, very sad …that these bakers are making gingerbread replicas of our wastewater treatment plant. This. while many New Yorkers are wanting for bread, with children going to bed hungry or on the verge of having SNAP food benefits cut orcurtailed ..so that billionaires can fatten their wallets even more, in the richest country in the world. Perhaps Queen Melania will graciously say: “Let them eat gingerbread”. Likewise, you report that the bakers created a gingerbread version of the Statue of Liberty. This, while our country is betraying the very values that the Statue represents, as even US citizens are being murdered in the streets by masked armed ICE goons who roam this countr with impunity. who act as judge, jury & executioners, who terrorize both people & communities. In America! They are the real domestic terrorists who are destroying America and the cherished freedoms & liberties we love. We did not vote for a wanna-be-dictator, complete with storm troopers & scapegoats. Voters need to flush him, his gold toilet & his fascist crew out – starting with the mid-terms. While we still can….