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March 24, 2015
Easy-Bake Evolution: 50 Years of Cakes, Cookies, and Gender Politics
“The first Easy-Bake Oven didn’t look like much of an oven,” Coopee says. “It was this box that came in turquoise or pale yellow, and a handle on the top. It had a slot that you’d push the pan into, and then a window where you could watch the cake being baked. The cooling chamber on the side had this fake range built over it.”But its strange appearance didn’t prevent it from becoming the must-have toy of the season. “They only had time to manufacture half a million of them before November, and they sold out immediately,” he says. “It was one of those Christmas toys that people would fight over in the store.” | Collectors Weekly
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Hmm, 'round about the time JFK was in Dallas, checking out Dealey Plaza.
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at March 25, 2015 4:18 AM
This may have been the very item that pushed the first Feninazi over the edge.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at March 25, 2015 5:36 AM
I ate a lot of Easy-Bake cookies in my day. Five daughters born 1956-1967.
Posted by: BillH at March 25, 2015 6:53 AM
Patriarchal sexual stereotyping forcing girls into predetermined gender submission. Or just fun for little girls to bake daddy cookies.
Posted by: tripletap at March 25, 2015 1:08 PM