From Reuters, January 23, 1994:

A supermarket chain stepped in yesterday to defend against traditional "gingerbread men" biscuits from some of its own staff who had renamed them "gingerbread persons" in Britain's latest dispute over political correctness. British newspapers said that a number of staff at Gateway, Britain's fifth largest retailer with some 650 stores, decided to relabel the ginger biscuits in an attack against sexism. But Gateway stepped in quickly to put a stop to the move. "We have sent instructions to our stores that gingerbread men must be gingerbread men," a spokesman [sic] said.

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