msmofet
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When I was a kid, all fridges (electric) with or without freezers were called iceboxes by older people. It was uncommon to hear “refrigerator”.
You're right, @medtran49! That was something else I learned early on, and, though I was never much on drinking beer, they had frequently keg parties on campus, and I would drain the foam out of the empty kegs, and let it settle, and take it back to the apartment, and freeze it (I got a freezer even then - something my family always had, to stock up on things!). Next party, I'd even have more left (I didn't bake that much bread!), and take a bunch back, and use some for cooking seafood in (my school was down at the shore, so that was cheap then) - that's when I got that 32 qt stockpot, I eventually gave to Mom's church kitchen.
This makes it sound like freezers weren't much of a thing back, say (I don't know how old you are so I'm gonna assume) 20 or 30 years ago. I thought electric freezers came about in the 70s? I know 50s and 60s shows had ice boxes but I'm not sure how long electric freezers have been invented.
Not all homes had separate free standing freezers during the 50's. They started being common during the 60's and students in college certainly didn't. LOL, you were very privileged to have one at school, pepper.
When I was a kid, all fridges (electric) with or without freezers were called iceboxes by older people. It was uncommon to hear “refrigerator”.
Maybe freezer compartments, but not just plain "freezers".Freezers???
Maybe freezer compartments, but not just plain "freezers".
You could fit one of those small cardboard boxes of frozen veggies in there, but if you wanted any ice cubes, probably not more than one. If I recall correctly,there were also small cardboard ice cream containers that were made to fit in there.We had a fridge like that in the kitchen, but that compartment was just for making ice in those cheap plastic ice trays. The freezer in the utility room was what we called the freezer. I don't recall whether we had a name for the small compartment in the fridge.
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