Flip-flop

Some felt that flip-flops were inappropriately informal to wear to the White House, while others felt that some flip-flops are fashionable footwear and are appropriate for the summer months. Gingerbread is also an architectural term for highly decorated Victorian houses. Bush. Pain d'épices is a French pastry also made with honey and spices, but not crispy. In late July 2005, some members of Northwestern University's national champion women's lacrosse team were criticized for wearing flip-flops to the White House to meet with President George W. Gingerbread is often translated into French as pain d'épices. They seem to be worn with almost any combination of clothing, and some regular users even wear them in the wintertime. Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger, then to a confection made with honey and spices.

The term "flip-flop" derives from the rhythmic slapping noise that the sandals make while slapping against the wearer's heels and the floor as he or she walks. Some recipes add mustard, pepper, raisins, nuts, and/or other spices/ingredients to the batter. The Klip-Flop style has reinvented flip-flops to mollify the annoyance of strap snap by creating interchangeable straps that lock into the EVA sole with a turn of a penny. The cake form tends to be a dense, treaclely (molasses-based) spice cake. A pair is lucky to make it more than a couple of years before being rendered into trash. Substantial mould collections are held at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, Poland and the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany. The average life expectancy of a pair isn't very long for precisely this reason, perhaps only a year or so. Gingerbread moulds often displayed the "news", showing carved portraits of new kings, emperors, and queens, for example.

They can be fixed, but many people choose to just buy new ones, discarding away the old ones. A significant form of popular art in Europe, major centers of gingerbread mould carving included Lyon, Nürnberg, Pest, Prague, Ulm, and Toruń. Unfortunately, flip-flops are often not very sturdy and the straps may snap after moderate use. Another variant uses a boiled dough that can be molded like clay to form inedible statuettes or other decorations. Some people like to wear the sandals every day. These, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are a common Christmas decoration. Flip-flops tend to conform to the foot structure of the wearer. A variant dough is used to make gingerbread houses à la the "witch's house" encountered by Hansel and Gretel.

Although flip-flops are one of the most simple, humble forms of footwear, many people consider them comfortable. Gingerbread cookies are often cut into shapes, particularly gingerbread men. They are many economically disadvantaged peoples' only footwear, and hence are worn for a wide variety of tasks, including farming, construction, and other heavy manual work. As a cookie, gingerbread can be made into a thin, crisp cookie (often called a ginger snap) or a softer cookie similar to the German Lebkuchen. Sometimes these flip-flops are made of recycled rubber tires, lowering the cost even more. Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavor is ginger. In some places, domestically-produced sandals are available for the equivalent of less than US$1 and, despite their disposable design, street vendors will repair worn sandals for a small fee.

In many developing countries, especially in the tropics, rubber flip-flops are by far the cheapest manufactured footwear available. Flip-flops periodically become a fashion rage in the West and in Europe: although they are often associated with the beach or swimming pool, they are immensely popular as everyday casual shoes in many situations, especially with teenagers and young adults, and are now available in a wide variety of materials (leather, transparent plastic, rubber, wood, etc.) and price ranges from US$300+ to under US$1. This sandal is known by different names in different localities:. .

They appear to have been developed out of traditional Japanese woven or wooden soled sandals in New Zealand.
In footwear and fashion, flip-flops are a kind of flat, backless sandal that consist of simple soles held on the foot by a V-shaped strap that passes between the toes and around either side of the foot, attached to the sole at three points. In India, they are referred to as chappals. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.

In Hawaii, flip-flops are known as slippers. In South Africa they are also known as slops. In Australian English these are known as thongs or pluggers, and often are referred to as an Australian Icon. In the United States, they are generally known as flip-flops, thongs, zories or go-aheads (especially rubber thongs).

However intellectual property law prevented the term Jandals being used when sold in other countries. In New Zealand English they are known generically as jandals (Japanese Sandals), a name used by one manufacturer.