to be really annoyed at that smug sexist Strawberry Shortcake advert

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I just hate it! Why oh why do they market anything to do with baking / cooking at little girls only? (Big Cook Little Cook excluded but they cook crap anyway if I am honest) DP used to be a chef and DS loves anything to do with cooking. I just know he would love that magazine if it wasn't so bloody girly and pink and cutesy. Grrrr!!

And at the end when the smug mum bends down with the tea towel and the syrupy voiceover says "Now you can cook just like mum". Erm right, so we are now back in the 50's where men don't cook, only women and little girls.

This rant probably looks a little irrational but hey. Its one of those adverts that makes me gnash my teeth

You are quite right. Very irritating. And dowright sexist.

"now you can cook just like dad' to my dd's would suggest that Strawberry Shortcake was serving up baked beans and burnt blobs made out of fried flour

sorry about apostrophe

good grief

I feel your pain.

I thought your partner, like mine, was a dab hand with the chorizo (sniggers childishly), Cappster?

MI be more specific

pain about the advert

pain about the blobs

or pain about the apostrophe?

Id hate to go to Big Cook Little Cook's cafe. T'other week some poor sod had to wait 4 days while they grew some mung beans!

oh sorry MI

yes he can do chorizo but not for the children

they would just stare at it

Well, the advert. But obviously the apostrophe is causing me Untold Suffering as well.

DAMMIT - who nicked me apostrophe?!

he is going away for a fortnight

the Coffee House is going on a sausage detox

Lol cappuccino!!!

Poor Dh had to listen to me rant about this advert last night it's just so crap isn't it?

I like chorizo.

Although possibly Mr Inferior's reliance on it has slightly lessened my affections for it.

David Tennant likes it as well

me and Pruni are stocking up

I object to it on principal. 4.99 for a rolling pin and a recipe!!!!! I hate these 'collection' mags that start of at 99p then have 163 subsequent 4.99 ones. Such a bleedin' rip off. My 2 are welcome to some wooden spoons/baking trays etc and some recipe books from the charity shop!!!
But then I am tight.
And yes it is an annoying chintzy 50's sexist ad!! (and I'm usually very lax about sexism)

Nooo, I will wow him with my Chorizo Expertise.

But goshdarn, the OP, yes, totally bloody maddening. And I speak as someone who likes baking. (It produces Cake.)

Yeah they are a rip off too. I remember seeing something on watchdog or something similar once about a collection magazine where you gradually build a boat ended up costing hundreds and hundreds of pounds. All for a boat that looked like it cost about £2 from a charity shop

Mr Anchovy is a big chorizo man. He works near a fantastic Spanish deli where they do many different varieties. We are well known for peddling our chorizo to appreciating types, although I did feel he had somewhat overreached himself when he said "By the way, I gave some chorizo while you were away".

I think I would like Mr Inferior. I do not recognise the concept of being Over-Chorizo-ed.

Ah, I would love a spot of Chorizo Variation. I find sticking with the same chorizo week in week out makes me yearn for new porcine variety.

It is awful - saw it for first time the other day and was at the blatant sexism and [vomit] at all that pink everywhere.

Yukky advert.

DH does most of the cooking in our house...sets a wonderful example to my boys, hehe.

Oh yes dittany, I saw that one this evening too - bleeuughhh!

Think I saw it today - Zoey or something. Just downright nasty really!