People are tweeting their failed attempts to make gingerbread houses

It's the taste that counts, right?
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Sam Haysom
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People may be good at getting into the Christmas spirit, but that doesn't mean they're any good at constructing a sound gingerbread house.

Nobody is, it seems. This holiday season Twitter has been awash with dismal, tragic photos of the tiny lopsided constructions.

Just look at some of these delicious disasters...

Awful:

Even worse:

So embarrassing:

Total annihilation:

What even is this mess:

There were so many examples like this that they've even been collected into one big, shameful Twitter Moment.

Hopefully they at least tasted good.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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