The king wanted dessert, so the royal chef made a gingerbread man that sprang to life as the gingerbread knight. The gingerbread knight taunted a real knight by untying his metal boot. When the squire intervened, the gingerbread knight fled until he was eaten by a hound. In the hound's stomach, the gingerbread knight reunited with past foods who were now his subjects in the stomach kingdom.