I have arms that cannot throw and legs that never walk, with tiny currant eyes that never blink. Born in the fierce heat of a holiday oven, I run only in bedtime stories before becoming a winter snack. What am I?
A gingerbread man
A gingerbread man is a baked holiday cookie fashioned like a running person with icing buttons and currant eyes.
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