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[pictures please] What toys did you want as a kid but never get (to play with)? (lemmy.world)
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I always kinda wanted an EasyBakeOven (or QueasyBakeOven to get around the annoying gender stereotypes)

Also had the Baskin' Robbins Ice Cream maker but my stupid mother wouldnt let me use it for some reason. Like she made it seem like she needed to be involved for me to use it and she wouldnt make herself available for that -> defacto unusable by fiat

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[โ€“] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I had one. We had one, me and twin. It worked so poorly. It's just a really hot lightbulb. So it took awhile to bake anything and was still dangerous cause lightbulb and why they were discontinued. Mother found out so silly she just started teaching us how to use the stove really young. It's why I got into baking, since I was allowed to make cookies whenever and did.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    How often do you chat with your twin now? Twins are so interesting to me :)

    How did people actually burn themselves and also possibly their house down?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 6 days ago

    I live with my twin, so...we talk often!

    People didn't burn the house down. They're burn themselves being children and stupid. They'd put fingers into the oven and burn fingers on the hot bulb. Because it has to be pretty hot to actually cook with the heat from a bulb. They'd keep making the bulb cooler to try and stop kids burning themselves, which meant the food took forever to cook. So they just got rid of the line.

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