Gingerbread (charity) her marriage, Tessa Fothergill, a mother from London struggling with economic difficulties as a single parent, set up a local self-help group for others in a similar position. Fothergill was featured in the "Sunday Times", and the response from other single parents resulted in the creation of Gingerbread as a grassroots organisation providing community-level support for single parents. The name 'Gingerbread' came about after Fothergill saw a cafe called 'Golden Age Gingerbread' and liked the name. The National Council for One Parent Families and Gingerbread merged in 2007, and relaunched under the name Gingerbread in 2009. Head offices for Gingerbread
The Gingerbread Man also helped popularize the meme of the Gingerbread Man, although Baum's tale, like Ranken's, contained few elements of the original story. Some tales have settings and cultural connections beyond Europe, such as Eric Kimmel's "The Runaway Tortilla" (2000) about a desert-roving tortilla who avoids donkeys, rattlesnakes, and buckaroos only to be defeated by crafty Señor Coyote; the Hanukkah version called "The Runaway Latkes" (2000) by Leslie Kimmelman; and Ying Chang Compestine's Chinese New Year tale, "The Runaway Rice Cake" (2001). Peter Armour's "Stop That Pickle!" (2005) is a tale about a runaway deli pickle. "Marsupial Sue Presents "The Runaway Pancake""