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Look: Socially distanced gingerbread illustrates Sweden's pandemic year

The annual Christmas competition is taking place online without visitors due to COVID-19

Published: December 08, 2020 15:34 Reuters

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Copy of 2020-12-07T135936Z_676617904_RC2DIK9EDDT0_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-GINGERBREAD-1607426180865 — With the theme of distance, this year's gingerbread house baking competition in Sweden was bound to feature coronavirus restrictions one way or another. But some of the nation's bakers found eyecatching ways to illustrate the year of the pandemic. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 2020-12-07T140212Z_2123257443_RC2EIK9EGY9R_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-GINGERBREAD-1607426185919 — With a laptop on his sleigh, Santa chatted on Skype to three piglets in one creation, while another showed Greta Thunberg (pictured) with her school strike for climate placard at Stockholm's Arlanda airport, alongside planes grounded by the virus. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 158331-01-02-1607426194235 — The exhibition, usually thronged with wide-eyed children and adults marvelling at the culinary creations, is normally held at Sweden's Museum of Architecture and Design but was moved online due to COVID-19 pandemic. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 158341-01-02-1607426197214 — Others entries displayed in the three-dimensional scans created by the organisers showed lighthouses, the planets of the solar system or online calls between grandparents and grandchildren. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 158346-01-02-1607426202747 — One baker reproduced the head of Sweden's Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell (pictured) - widely seen as the architect of the country's light-touch pandemic strategy - five times. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-12-07T135812Z_688845777_RC2DIK9SGJ2C_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-GINGERBREAD-1607426178705 — The reason, the baker explained, was that he wanted to be sure to get the social distancing message across. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 158326-01-02-1607426191709 — With more than one hundred entries from members of the public based around the theme of distance, staff at the museum have produced 3D scans of every entry. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 158349-01-02-1607426205582 — While members of the public would usually come to visit the exhibition in the Swedish capital, due the the pandemic, the gingerbread houses are stored at the museum and fans can visit ArkDes's website to view the entries. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-12-07T135648Z_1824047073_RC2DIK9X159O_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-GINGERBREAD-1607426174231 — A marzipan Santa Claus is seen during the annual gingerbread baking competition at Arkdes Museum of Architecture and Design in Stockholm. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 158269-01-02-1607426188851 — A gingerbread house model is pictured at the ArkDes. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-12-07T140012Z_2029276720_RC2EIK9X4GO7_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-GINGERBREAD-1607426183264 — Two gingerbread smartphones to illustrate social distancing are seen during the competition. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Copy of 158345-01-02-1607426199946 — Gingerbread house models are pictured at the ArkDes. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-12-07T135748Z_245292508_RC2DIK9PYGIY_RTRMADP_3_CHRISTMAS-SEASON-GINGERBREAD-1607426176543 — A gingerbread heart is seen during the competition. Image Credit: REUTERS

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