What was life like before refrigerators were mass consumer goods?
What was life like before refrigerators were mass consumer goods?
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Everyone had to spice dey food to borderline inedibility to keep it from going bad.
Canning
Iceboxes.
Smokehouses.
Salting fucking everything.
In old China and many parts of premodern East/Southeast Asia you bought your meat alive and you slaughtered it yourself.
Like the other anon said people kept tinned foods and smoked and/or salted their meat. Most people would buy their groceries closer to the time they were going to eat them. It wasn't that different from today tbh only instead of going to a supermarket once a week you went to a marketplace every few days
In the US we would use reservoirs/shallow rivers and underground sheds as refrigerators.
do americans really?
Europeans would store food in the bog
>t. billy no bogs
I actually saw a Joe Pera episode where he talks about that. It was the one where his teenage neighbors were raiding his fridge at night.
In addition to what has been already said: picklling, earth cellars & storage pits for fruits, vegetables and roots and way more fresh to the dinner plate.
It also largely depends on the time period you are interested in.
It sucked. No ice cream.
They were called "soda fountains" back then.
The soda fountain was an attempt to replicate mineral waters that bubbled up from the Earth. Many civilizations believed that drinking, and bathing, in these mineral waters cured diseases. Large industries often sprang up around hot springs, such as Bath in England (CE 43) or the many onsen of Japan.
Hot milk shakes?
>No ice cream.
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/ice-cream-the-inside-scoop/
meat was salted and dried before winter. Fruit like plums would be turned into jam, cabbage would be fermented, figs were dried, and potatoes could just be kept in a basement with no access to sunlight
We still do all of this in eastern Europe as not to give money to ~~*them*~~
The naggers?
Think about it when you're buying Finkelgrüber's schweinfleisch bacon
always remember, a dealer never consumes his product
Canning, smoking, pickling and curing.
If you want fresh, you consume it on season and before it spoils.
Aged meat is arguably better than fresh since you give time to enzymes to break down the proteins into flavor compounds.
isn't that pickling?
people kept their own animals
Struggling
are americans into the tech shit because otherwise they are completely unfit for life?