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And you probably have me partly to

thank or blame for this development! I'm pretty sure I signed a petition at some point in recent months asking for this. It could well be the petition mentioned in the news story. I sign so many of these petitions it's hard to remember the exact details after a while....
 
Was I dreaming?

I thought the original 1965-ish? Easy Bake Oven was in a neutral light blue?

I knew of them, but didn't want one extremely, for by that time, Ma and I were baking together in our real kitchen with a real oven--- and almost (almost!) any time I was interested.

However, this is still good news. I agree that the current one looks too much like a clock radio or something.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
neutral light blue

You are correct. I had one. I wish I had the picture of me making a cake. I didn't care that it was a girls toy. My dad cooked at home all the time and I wanted to do that too. I am lucky my parents were open minded.
 
How pathetic! It's about time they scrapped this "Pink for a girl, blue for a boy" rubbish. It is another form of intolerance like sexism and is perpetuated by adults, not children.
 
Wait, but I know lots of boys with easi-bake ovens.... OH, OH, you mean the one's who might be unhappy with a pink toy... (and I think I'll stop since I can only step further in with the references...)

That purple thing in the article is awful - a comment was something to the effect of "a boom box owned by Prince".
 
Confession time

I wanted an easy bake oven when I was a kid but did not DARE ask Santa for one.  I was already teased enough for doing the laundry!  Fortunately, my neice Stacey (approx. my age) got one for Christmas.  She and I had a ball with it! 
 
my confession

Franksdad..I felt your pain as well. I wanted one and my mother told me dad said Santa couldn't bring me one because they were for girls. Fooled them..my cousin got one we baked in the basement until all the mixes were used up. To be really honest (since we're confessing) I'm at the half century mark and I'd still love to have one...lol
 
I asked my colleague, jokingly, if her grandchildren were getting easi-bake's; the response, NO! Her grandchildren (mostly pre-teens) are already cooking on the real thing (both boys AND girls).
 
No one really cared

I got my first washer in 1956 for Christmas,I have one now just like it,a Wolverine,I always luved washers no matter Christmas or birthday I always got a couple of them in the 50s and early 60s.In the fifties ON MONDays I used to visit alot of neighbors that was washday and they would pull up a chair for me to watch them do laundry and sometimes they would have cake left from Sunday lunch and share it with me.They were still kinda mechanical mysteries better left to men,so I dont think they ever really thought of them as really just for women,because when they brokedown,the guys would usually try their hand at repairing them I know my dad and the repairman must have been good buddies because our Hotpoint was always breaking down or maybe my mother!!!!!!
 
I also have to agree that it would be nice if the color code system system of Blue=Boy and Pink=Girl got scrapped. But I'm not holding my breath. Supposedly that color system is a relatively new thing. If I recall right, a commercial invention of the 20th century.
 
Pink or Blue

People need to change their attitude not the toy. I cant see many kids wanting to play with this thing It does not even look like an oven. The Dutch seen to be the best at this, out shopping with a very good Dutch friend I asked her what she was getting her 11 year old nephew for Christmas, in a matter of fact way see said his granny had got him a new dress to were for the school party and she was looking for a nice pair id shoes to go with it. I was one of the lucky kids of the 60s and my dad had no problems getting me a toy vac oven and washer. However all that changed when he remarried when I was 14 but that's a very long story that I never want to relive.
 

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