Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for November 18, 2021

Good ol’ home economics.

They need to learn how to cook to be self-sufficient when they get their own place. Plus it’s just fun!

Tia said “partner” not “man”. Baby steps. But, really all kids need to learn to shop and cook and clean. Stop unleashing them on the world without basic skills.

Everyone needs to know how to cook! My daugthers and son all learned that. So I wouldn’t know about that step forward but hmmm about the backwards one…

Little girls AND little boys should learn to cook.Getting a partner really has nothing to do with it, it is a survival skill.

She’ll grow up alone with cats

Maybe she can take a crack at Baldo’s car. He certainly hasn’t gotten anywhere.

A 1907 recording of music hall great Florrie Forde singing, Girls, Study your Cookery Book can be found on YouTube™. It advises this method to catch a man… Of course, as one of the great performers of the era it’s doubtful she ever had to do any cooking herself.

How do you know playing the tuba won’t help her find a better partner?

Everybody’s got to eat (poor grammar intentional)

When you’re so “enlightened” that you don’t realize everyone should know how to cook.

I taught all my brothers to cook. Of course, I needed to get ready for dates and they wanted money but in the long run they learned how to feed themselves.

I thank my mother and grandmother for teaching and encouraging me to learn all those domestic survival skills that were all too often considered women’s work by both my parent’s generation and my own.

Sad to say, of all the ladies I have known or been involved with, in my long life, I can count on one hand the number of them who were good cooks.

From the time he could reach the stove on a step stool, I began to teach my oldest grandson to cook. I’m proud to say that he’s become an excellent cook and is now teaching his little daughter – my great-grandaughter!!

I once asked an old guy why he proposed to his wife, and he said,“I needed a cook!” and another time when I was talking to a man at his wife’s funeral, he said, “I lost a damn good cook!”

Being a good cook is both an economic and a good survival skill. And guys, men that are good cooks, also impress the ladies…….

I’m a self-supporting single woman. If I were better at cooking, then I could probably make better food for less money, in less time, and way more efficiently. That would improve my personal quality of life. Gracie is scorning a good opportunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7GWyasxb5E

Gracie, just take the opportunity to bond with your great aunt, connect with your heritage, keep you family traditions alive, and develop a useful skill.HC and CC, this strip was a misstep. What if the punchline had been Tia being more practical or egalitarian than Gracie expected?

“Tía Carmen, I notice you’re single …”

Sometimes you catch the partner by showing them how bad your cooking is, especially if the future partner likes to cook.

My parents had three boys (no girls), and we all learned to cook and clean. Those tasks were treated not as men’s work or women’s work, but just as things everybody needs to do. I feel lucky, because many of my age peers never learned these basic survival skills.

I expected the kind of wisdom from Tia Carmen that would have both Gracie and Baldo learning to cook – with a side note of Baldo grumbling.

In the grand scheme of things, we all eventually will need to know how to prepare meals. Will she depend on her aunt the rest of her life? If she is living on her own, will she be eating out every meal? Will she expect her partner to do all the cooking? I learned to cook in college. It was either that or starve. Today, my wife and I share cooking as well as all household chores.

Old-fashioned Tia says partner instead of esposo or husband?

How nice. Widdle Gracie is being obnoxiously woke and progressive.

Gracie, all kids should know how to cook, girls and boys. Notice, also, that your Tia said ‘partner’, not ‘husband’.

Little girls absolutely need to know how to cook. So do little boys. Everyone should know how to cook!

Cooking is a great skill to learn in any case. Fun and useful.

Yes they do need to know how to cook, so do boys. My impetus for learning to cook was, Hunger.

Hmm. As much as I like cooking, I don’t necessarily think it is needed to get a man. Didn’t really work for Tia.

Every child should be able to ook a nutricious meal, sew a rip/tear/button,.and clean laundry, dishes, floors, and sundry, as young as possible. One never knows when fending for oneself will come in useful. Mommy won’t always be there, or able, to do this for you.

Everyone, Boys & Girls should know how to cook.

No one should ever have to consider getting married just to keep from Starving.

There are much better reasons. Knowing how to Cook gives you the Freedom to consider those other options.

Gracie, you will some day be living on your own. You NEED to know how to feed yourself!

Husband is the better cook of the two of us – but cannot cook anything without using every pot and pan in the kitchen for me to wash afterwards.