Kid cheater and child cheater are synonyms for spatula, because when you’re baking a cake, a spatula is so efficient for removing the remnants of a sweet mixture from a bowl that there’s little left for a kid to lick off. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Kid Cheater”
We got a call from Case who grew up in Los Angeles and moved to New Hampshire
Where nobody understood an expression that she was using.
And that expression was child cheater.
Do you know this?
Child cheater? Is this a booster seat?
No, no, it’s not a booster seat, but it is something you would find.
Oh, I know what this is.
This is a fake kid that you put in your car so you can ride in the HOV lane.
Right?
How did you know?
Is that it?
No, no, no, no.
No, a child cheater is a spatula.
And she was wondering why it’s called a child cheater.
And it’s because if you’re baking a cake and you’re using this spatula to get all the batter off of the sides of the bowl.
There’s no bowl left to lick.
There’s nothing left.
Yes, yes.
They’re sometimes called kid cheaters.
Kid cheaters, yeah.
But you’re not the only one who uses it.
So I don’t know what people in New Hampshire say, but it’s not child cheater.
This is why we loved it when my mother baked with the blender because it’s hard to get it all off the beaters, right?
Very easy to get it off if you’re just hand stirring or hand mixing.
Yeah, my tongue is moving just thinking about it.
Plus, standing in the kitchen, eating food, and not at a table with no napkin and plates was against all the rules.
Yes.
And it felt like you were getting away with something.
Even more delicious.
