On 11/22/2020 at 11:36 PM, JoNorvelleWalker said:Fridge, veggies.
I like and use those terms, and have been using them since I was old enough to talk. Fridge was a condensation of Frigidaire, one of the, if not the, earliest, and arguably, most popular refrigerators. It entered production before 1920, IIRC. Edited to add: The first Frigidaires used blocks of ice for cooling, and was little more than an insulated box. Electricity wasn't used to run a compressor until the mid-1920s. Grandpa Jack and Grandma Bessie didn't get an electric refrigerator until around 1946. In the FWIW Dep't, I lived with my grandparents until I was almost two years old, and had first-hand experience with these old "cold boxes" and the ice man.
Grandpa Jack owned a few small produce markets and he, as well as some others that I knew in the business, used the term veggies, generally when unloading the trucks and moving the produce into storage. This was not common in the industry but in NYC at the time, a few produce people used the term often. Julie Kravitz, the produce buyer for the supermarket chain I worked for, would use veggies, vegetables, and produce almost randomly and certainly interchangeably.
