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.
CD
Here's my petty vent for today. I went out to run some errands about midday. I had barely gotten to my first stop before I was almost t-boned by another driver. No signal as to their intentions. Sadly this happens ALL THE TIME. I used to like driving but I'm tired of having to anticipate what other drivers will do.
What do they think the turn signal device is for...decoration?!
Was nearly t-boned two more times before I made it home. And, just so you know, I live in a rural farming community, not in a heavily populated big city. The nearest big CITY, about 40 minutes away, has a population of about 25,000 residents.
Go figure.
Okay, vent is over.
CD, you reminded me of an annoying episode that I had driving a number of years ago. I was driving home from a grocery shopping trip. I was in the left turn lane, along with about 7 other cars. The lights when through their whole cycle and never switched on the left turn arrow. The car at the front of this row of cars waiting to turn left hadn't pulled up to the line. That means that the detector didn't detect a car. The light cycle only turns on the left arrow, if there is someone waiting to make a left turn. Someone got out of their car and went to talk to the driver of that car at the front. It didn't help. The fool wouldn't scoot their car forward a few feet. So, after 3 or 4 traffic light cycles, I gave up and crossed the solid white line to get out of the left turn lane. I had to do the "three right turns makes a left turn" thing. There is even a symbol painted on the road where those detectors are.
I haven't seen that here in Canada. Sometimes we have a flashing green that doesn't have an arrow. That means that turning has priority. That one really confuses a lot of tourists.Here in North Texas (and many other places in the US), we have a flashing yellow left turn signal, in addition to a green left turn signal. If the signal is a green arrow, you have a protected left turn. If the left turn signal is flashing yellow, you can turn left, but must yield to cars coming at you and going straight. It sounds a bit sketchy, but it actually works quite well.
Do you have that in Canada?
CD