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What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I heard Australians put cereal in the fridge because of bugs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah 😱 In some places in the tropics really only the fridge is safe from ants getting into everything otherwise. They bite their way through regular plastic bags no problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

God, the ants in Turks & Caicos were a nightmare, and food is crazy expensive. People who live there must have all their shit locked down or they'd be broke in a week. I always say I want to live somewhere tropical, but that had me rethinking some things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Locals probably pay a different price than tourists. I have never been there specifically but this seems to be the rule in places where there is large income inequality between people who live there and visitors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure - we went to the grocery store in the residential area. We always do. It's just expensive to ship anything, so islands are always really pricey.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm from Oz and I feel like I wasn't informed of this knowledge. Maybe I've been eating bugs this whole time.

Most cereals have a plastic bag inside to contain the contents. Maybe people don't seal it properly and it let's in little nasty creepy crawly-ses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Sorry had to make the Oz joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Hmm that would also make sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Slightly related but there used to be things called bread boxes. I think it was to keep mice from eating your bread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And not just mice. If designed correctly, they would help keeping the correct humidity so the bread neither gets too dry (and solid) nor too humid (and moldy)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm in the US and I do this after living in some questionable apartments over the years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I did this when I lived in a cheap apartment in Houston, Texas, USA. Cheap and sturdy, but we definitely had bugs.