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March 6, 2014

Easy-Bake Evolution: 50 Years of Cakes, Cookies, and Gender Politics

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I have a confession: My brother and I destroyed my Easy-Bake Oven.
I had the 1981 Mini-Wave model, the boxy, yellow microwave style, which was, in my 7-year-old mind, the only kind of Easy-Bake there was. One day, my 4-year-old brother had a brilliant idea—to “cook” a green plastic steak from our 1972 Mattel Tuff Stuff Play Food set. Collectors Weekly

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 6, 2014 3:24 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Whoda' thunk you could benefit from the heat of an everyday inexpensive lightbulb, easily replaced by any....
wait!What?

So is it NOW considered "hostile workplace" if one is fired from their job for stealing expensive, toxic, mandatory, light bulbs from the workplace?

Posted by: CaptDMO at March 7, 2014 8:40 AM

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