Today, November 4th, is National Easy-Bake Oven® Day! Really!
It was exactly 60 years ago on this day that the iconic toy debuted, and since then millions of kids have enjoyed baking strange little flat cakes with the power of an ordinary light bulb. You can learn more about this rich history here: National Easy-Bake Oven Day - November 4 (nationaleasybakeovenday.com)
Holly Belle: Found it! Ready to bake some cakes?
Holly Belle: Oh yes, I checked all the mixes and they're not too expired.
Meghan: No, I mean remember how we caught Mikey shoving jigsaw pieces inside it?*
Holly Belle: Oh, I remember--that little monster!
No, Daddy Steve took it apart and cleaned them all out.
*A very young Daddy Steve actually did the same thing to his cousin's Easy-Bake Oven
and he got in trouble, too!
Meghan: Hmmm, I don't know.
Holly Belle: Now what's wrong?
Meghan: Well, it's just that Tyler and Mikko were talking, and
they said the Easy-Bake Oven was invented to teach girls to be good housewives.
Oh Holly Belle, I don't want to be a good housewife!
Holly Belle: Good grief, you should never listen to anything those two fools say!
Why, Van Gogh could just as easily have been a pastry chef as a painter!
Meghan: Really?
Holly Belle: Of course. And he wouldn't have lost an ear, either.
Meghan: Well, that makes me feel better. I just don't want to be
a pawn in some big societal conformity scheme.
Holly Belle: Being an iconoclast myself, I totally get that. So, are you ready to bake?
Meghan: Sure! But let's promise each other that we'll never become 'good housewives'!
Holly Belle: It's a deal, sister!
2 comments:
Aww it's such a shame that girls can no longer be carefree and enjoy cooking and cleaning for fear of being labelled a good housewife! But with all this cancel culture going on , they need to be ever aware ..
That said, no way is Holly Belle and any young girl of this generation getting sucked back into those old stereotypes, they've found their voices and they will no be shut up.. I mean silenced ;)
Loving that little Easy-Bake oven amazing what we were allowed to use back in the day. So I'm expecting to now see flat cakes, if Frank doesn't find them first....
Daddy Steve, I can't believe you did that!! Glad they got taken out and didn't start a fire! Easy bake ovens more or less dry out the cake mix more than bake it. I think you can make more mixes by baking a cake, crumbling it up fine and drying it. Then reconstitute with water and "bake it" in the oven.
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