Chuck

And we were among like the last age group who could elect for home ec pretty much across the country.

Like this was a time, this was about the end of the time where you could find a home ec classroom in most high schools or middle schools.

But that is not the case anymore.

Although it's still around, it's just not everywhere like it used to be.

No, I remember you told me they filled in all the sinks with cement.

So, class would get really boring really fast.

True, true.

I understand that it's called home economics in Australia, and I think maybe Canada, and in the UK they call it food sciences, I think.

It's all the same thing.

And essentially what it is, for those of you who don't know, it was a class in high school where you would learn basic life skills that had a lot to do with being at home.

You would learn sewing.

You would learn to bake a cake.

As time wore on, you would learn to take care of a child, maybe learn to balance a checkbook, just basic life skills as a class in high school or middle school.

And that is, it turns out, I didn't quite realize the extent of home ec.

One little slice of the whole home ec pie, which is delicious because it was made by home economists.

That's right.

And there's a whole history to it.

And it's actually pretty feminist in nature, too.

Right, and that was actually one of the initial points of it.

But if you were a home ec proponent and you were arguing with a feminist, you might start by saying, let me give you a little picture of what life used to be like for the average woman in the United States before we came along.