SOME WELL-KNOWN male chefs in the US are getting behind a New Jersey girl’s call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven.
The chefs including Manuel Trevino of TV’s Top Chef and Michael Lomonaco of Porterhouse New York are featured in a YouTube video applauding McKenna Pope’s online petition, which had reached about 40,000 signatures on the website Change.org.
The 13-year-old from Garfield, New Jersey, started the petition when she went to buy an Easy-Bake Oven for her 4-year-old-brother, Gavyn Boscio, but discovered it comes only in purple and pink.
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She wants the toy company Hasbro to feature boys on the box of the toy and to make it in gender-neutral colours.
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay said last week he agreed that Hasbro should make an oven in other colors to appeal to boys, and in the nearly 3-minute-long video posted online, several chefs from around the US joined in on the call.
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McKenna’s mother, Erica Boscio, said that McKenna is scheduled to meet with Hasbro on Monday.
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