Which One Of These Gingerbread Houses Could Kill You?

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Some gingerbread houses are made to be eaten, others are made to look pretty on the table as a centerpiece, but one of the gingerbread houses pictured above might actually kill you if you eat it.

Can you guess which one? It's hard to tell, isn't it?

That's the point of this Christmas themed experiment, posted by Redditor Mmnking to see if people can tell the difference between a gingerbread house made of candy and one made with pharmaceutical medicines:

A little bit of backstory - a friend of my mum works in a poisons department at a children's hospital in Sydney. She made this, to be blown up into a poster, but didn't have a good camera other than her phone. She rang up, and I took the photos for her with a nice DSLR. I thought it was pretty interesting, as a ridiculous number of the people I asked couldn't tell which was which, so I figured I'd share it here.

So which one is the killer treat? If you guessed the one on the left you're right! Now imagine how hard it would be for a child to tell the difference between the two...

-Via The Daily What

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I spent the last few years building up an immunity to pharmaceutical gingerbread houses.

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I figured the rooftop candies have a raised edge, which would be easy to break. Meds can't have such features, because broken edges would mess with the dosage, and so the one on the right is the candy house. So I can clearly not choose the house on the left!

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I always wondered why kids would chomp down on something, realize it tastes terrible, and then KEEP ON EATING IT. Jesus, kids!

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Do we have a concern about a high number of gingerbread houses being made with pharmaceuticals? I mean, is that a real thing?

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And yes, I get the PSA relevance of educating children that medicine isn't candy and what not.

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I blew up the photo to get a better look at the decorations and picked the left house because the purple pills had a hard edge to them instead of a softer round finish. Other than that I wouldn't have known which house was the deadly one.

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