Reminds me of the Ginger Andrews poem, "The Housewife."

I'm going to annoy the hell out of everybody by prefacing my answers/instructions with: Yes/No Margie.

Laughed out loud at her dour expression when her cake fell flat. And who fixes CAKE for DINNER? Shouldn't there have been, I don't know, a MEAL before that? She's making cake and bread for dinner. Her children will love her.

What frightens me most is that I actually saw this short (or one amazingly similar to it) in my 7th grade Home Ec class - in 1979.

Well, UltraMagnus, since Margie is too dumb to know what "boil" and "stir" mean, how would she be able to figure out what to serve?

BTW, did anyone catch the "in your career as a cook" line that comes just before cauliflower? That made me feel icky all over.

Hold on while I wash the vomit from my mouth.

Did this come in the two part series, "How to be a good Wife" and "How to love your slave bed-warmers"?

Many places, this is still considered the norm too, and many women are still forced into this submissive, slave-driven family position.

Never forget the past, or we are doomed to repeat it. (or at least allow others to think its ok)

Damn it, now I want cake.

Boy, that just galloped along. I couldn't finish watching it; it was just too boring (thanks for explaining what "stirring" is, Jack). But what I thought was interesting was that, even though the film was apparently written by a female "professor of home economics," the voice over had to be a demeaning, hectoring male, doing sarcasm the way stupid assholes do. It couldn't be the friendly foreigners from the Folger's commercials, no.

Off topic--does anyone know how to alter your screen name with these typekey accounts?

Very sad the way Margie seems to have NOTHING going on in her head. It's just an empty vessel (like her uterus!) that needs something put in it.

Of course, my first thought was that chocolate cake sounded very very good.

Very sad the way Margie seems to have NOTHING going on in her head. It's just an empty vessel (like her uterus!) that needs something put in it.

Nice!

Mmmm, milk scum! And those were some big ol' hunks of meat going into that oven.

Actually, apart from the cloying girl cooks bit, not enough people know basic cooking terms. I read that the latest Betty Crocker cookbook eliminated almost all terms such as those because they realized no one knew what the words meant. All kids should do home ec! I had a combo cooking/basic home repair class in high school, and it was quite useful.

I think I just threw up a little.

Why go through all that trouble? If I ever need to cook-- spaghetti all the way.

It's easy, everybody loves it, why not? And if someone can't handle the tomatoes, put some sugar on it. I say this because I'm eating spaghetti now. I'm telling you, it'll unite the world.

Anywhat, this makes me feel like an archaeologist. While some of the terms I learned, most of them seemed remedial.

All-in-all, I think this video is useful only if aimed at men and women.

And I want cake, too.

Manda-

I caught the "career" line too. If I knew how to write a shudder, I would.

And we all know that the true test of any cook is her jelly making ability.

I second the idea that everyone (men and women) should take basic cooking/home repair/clothing maintenance classes. My mom made me take those classes in high school. I happen to love to cook but even if you don't want to make your own food on a regular basis it's nice to know you can. My mother framed it as an important component of *independent* living--she noted, "your dad isn't going to do your laundry and make you dinner forever!" ;)

This video, on the other hand, is awful. The instructions aren't even all that helpful.

Tim needs to grow the fuck up. It's so depressing that the women of that age basically just became the mother's of their husbands.

"Now Tim will never need to know that Margie ruined her first cake."

Oh glee, so he won't even have to know that his little robot wife is imperfect. Asshole.

Margie's poofy apron kinda makes it look like it was a shotgun wedding, no? why else would he have married such a numbskull?

Margie is a nitwit, but what's even worse is that the narrator himself seems to agree: "Even [that useless slattern] Margie can learn to cook..." If only Margie had thought to consult a dictionary when she ran across "marinade," she wouldn't have had to put up with this asshole.

Amazingly, in my career as a cook, I have never, ever made scalloped cauliflower. And I never plan to.

I agree with the idea that everyone should take a home-ec/auto repair/basic home maintance course in high school. Not that I think that every woman needs to bake a cake (and who the heck bakes a cake for a meal?) for her man... but I think that we would be healthier in general if we all cooked a little more and ate out a little less.
and I too am now craving cake... and ice cream...

"To stir is to mix food materials with a circular motion to secure uniform conistency."

LOL

Cake for a meal? Sounds good to me.
And for dessert? Bread!

So yeah, if it's a woman's job to know all this cooking shit, why is it a man giving the instructions? Shouldn't he be hanging out with Tim and letting his wife coach Margie?

Tim needs to grow the fuck up. It's so depressing that the women of that age basically just became the mother's of their husbands.free online games