By: achrise
That's not true in general ... ... but there are a lot of foods that are shipped refrigerated but put in the store unrefrigerated Apples and other produce are presented in the grocery stores I'm...
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should consider switching to speaking German I see you have never before dined with or near me when steak is happening and I must be physically restrained from shrieking WO IST MEIN FLEISCH for no...
View ArticleBy: whatzit
anecdata: neither the grocery stores nor kitchens I'm familiar with devote 3/4 of their food storage space to refrigeration. I cannot vouch for the 3/4 figure, but there are a lot of foods that are...
View ArticleBy: mbrubeck
"Seems to me that once under artificial refrigeration goods stay there until preparation or final consumption" That's not true in general; for example lots of fruits and other produce are kept in cold...
View ArticleBy: mumimor
When in the line at the supermarket, I'm often the only person who has non-refrigerated food. Everyone else has bought literally everything from the fridges and freezers. And I live in a neighborhood...
View ArticleBy: Z. Aurelius Fraught
spray urethane, ice chips, newspaper, vinyl bags, and a pair of Canadian coffin makers Ah, must be Friday night.
View ArticleBy: srboisvert
Where I used to live in Birmingham, England there were still traces of the pre-refridgeration infrastructure. There was an underground ice house at the local park (Moseley Park) where ice, apparently...
View ArticleBy: DU
I think part of the old-person anxiety about leaving the fridge open is that they would have had an icebox growing up, which is basically a big poorly-insulated cooler. Closing the icebox or cooler is...
View ArticleBy: XMLicious
You guys who are having fun with the word "flesh" should consider switching to speaking German, since the word for "meat" is "Fleisch". You'd get to say it all the time!
View ArticleBy: biffa
uncounted billions of cubic feet of chilled flesh, fish, or fruit Do so many businesses in the US really not have some sort of stock control?
View ArticleBy: achrise
More than three-quarters of the food consumed in the United States today is processed, packaged, shipped, stored, and sold under artificial refrigeration. [* cite needed] (3/4 by volume, weight, SKU?)...
View ArticleBy: mrgrimm
The site of a refrigerator door left open even momentarily while groceries are put away fills me with anxiety that can only be assuaged by shutting the door as quickly as possible. Now just imagine you...
View ArticleBy: librarylis
That was weirdly fascinating! I hope she does develop it into a book, since I too would like to know more about the costs (and sustainability--especially given rising fuel costs) of some of these...
View ArticleBy: the man of twists and turns
After extensive experiments involving spray urethane, ice chips, newspaper, vinyl bags, and a pair of Canadian coffin makers, Okazaki and the JAL team finally succeeded in designing and building an...
View ArticleBy: Pruitt-Igoe
I think part of the old-person anxiety about leaving the fridge open is that they would have had an icebox growing up, which is basically a big poorly-insulated cooler. Closing the icebox or cooler is...
View ArticleBy: 7segment
Tropicana (a Pepsico company) was the industry leader, building 250,000-gallon stainless steel, individually insulated and refrigerated storage cylinders in an outdoor "tank farm" at its Bradenton,...
View ArticleBy: quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon
i once, several years ago, had the fascinating experience of visiting a massive deep freeze warehouse in the boonies of northwest lower michigan as part of a post-construction cleanup crew prepping a...
View ArticleBy: Egg Shen
Here's the image I've printed and put on my fridge to remind my daughter to fucking keep it shut. A plea for caution... As a boy, I once left my great-aunt's refrigerator door open. She - a kindly...
View ArticleBy: sparklemotion
CHILLED FLESH I'm pretty sure that I'm going to refer to meat as FLESH from now on. What's for dinner honey? Steaks of bovine FLESH. Did you need anything from the store? Chicken FLESH please. Would...
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