Fridge always too full

[NeroW]

(For those of you unfortunate enough not to have met Nero: It's even funnier if you do know her.  Because it's what she'd do!)

What?

I strike you as the type of person who'd piss in a catbox?

The funny thing is, my roommate . . . ach, never mind.

My point: You'd do this because you're a Nice Person.

Carry on.

Our cat would argue with you on the Nice Person point.

You all can bring your extra vegetables to my place and I'll compost them. What with the state of our refrigerator, our compost heap is threatening to take over the entire block.

[bsan]

Sometimes I wish my fridge was full of items to chow down on. Most of the time, I open the door to find absolutely nothing. But the freezer...that's another story. The freezer is completely full of meat ONLY.

[Aquitaine]

My long-held theory is that people who are serious about food should have TWO refrigerators:

• A, for condiments, sauces, so-called make-aheads -- you know, the stuff that you put into dishes and might hang around for quite some time...
  
• B, for food that you actually eat in the near future
  

So this results in a baby fridge full of stuff like that phenomenal salad dressing, brandied fruit, jars of miso and tahini, etc. And a full-size fridge full of OJ and milk/soy milk cartons, yogurt, cheeses, that day's farmers market haul, etc.

Of course, I am only dreaming. I live in New York City, so my kitchen is the size of a closet -- and the scene of numerous accidents, typically resulting from balancing too many things or being able to open the oven door only by contorting myself into positions that would make me eligible for Cirque du Soleil... I was thrilled to trade UP to a 14-cubic foot size. Even so, it is so crammed with type-A that I barely have room for type-B stuff.... (Forget about proper air circulation.)

[fresco]

Our son, 20, has custody of the second fridge, so of course it is full of beer.

[MatthewB]

Why do we find it so difficult to just turf food we'll never eat? Is it the early childhood exhortations about starving children? My wife, fortunately, is made of sterner stuff.

fresco,

You mention starving children more than I mention Uma.

[fresco]

In my case, probably early childhood conditioning, paying too much attention to UNICEF ads. You?

[MatthewB]

In my case, probably early childhood conditioning, paying too much attention to UNICEF ads. You?

Probably when at age 3 I hurdled myself off the kitchen table whilst fighting my mother & grandmother who were attempting to put castor oil down my throat.

I hurdled head-first from table to door casing.

I have both the physical & emotional scars to prove it.

[fresco]

So in an oddly Proustian way, the smell of castor oil evokes Uma? I imagine there might be times when you don't know whether you are coming or going.

Edited June 27, 2003 by fresco (log)

[MatthewB]

As Kurt Weill noted, "Speak low when you speak love."

[fresco]

Castor oil and Uma in the same Freudian thought may well be "the love that dare not speak its name without gagging."

[MatthewB]

I've not smelled nor tasted nor seen castor oil since the aforementioned incident.

I suppose you'll trump me with a claim of Freudian repression?

[fresco]

No. I've moved on to cocoa.

[MatthewB]

No. I've moved on to cocoa.

Speaking of cocoa . . .

[fresco]

I wonder if they're allowed to play that in Texas now without fear of being prosecuted for counselling sodomy?

[MatthewB]

I wonder if they're allowed to play that in Texas now without fear of being prosecuted for counselling sodomy?

The song is about chocolate malted balls, not sodomy, for gawd's sake.

[fresco]

They don't make no never mind about such fine distinctions in Texas.

[hjshorter]

I think the condiments eat the leftovers in my fridge, so they can grow big and strong and TAKE OVER ALL THE SPACE!!!!!!!!

I know ours do. And they multiply like rabbits. We're about to go out of town for a week, so I'm cleaning out the fridge...I just found and threw out 5 jars of salsa.

[Ruth]

My long-held theory is that people who are serious about food should have TWO refrigerators:

Even that would not work. Last year one of our freezers broke down. My husband rushed out to buy a new one - twice the size. Within a month it was crammed. I always say I would like to have an additional refrigerator for fruit and vegetables. We always have a whole drawer full of oranges or grapefruit for our morning juice. We are ridiculously acquisitive with vegetables, buying whenever we see something fresh - which of course is self-defeating because many of them are no longer so fresh when we get around to eating them. But this would not solve the problem. It all boils down to a general theory -the quantity of food we buy increases in proportion to refrigerator and freezer capacity

[Suzanne F]

Ah -- the same way it works with roads: the more roads that get built to ease traffic congestion, the more cars drive on them and fill them up, too. But somehow it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad when it's food.

[enthusiast]

freezers are like video recorders - if you don't use what you store within a week you never do.

[Jinmyo]

freezers are like video recorders - if you don't use what you store within a week you never do.

Not actually. But it certainly is best to keep everything clearly labelled, dated, and inventoried. We have the inventory sheets mounted on the inside of the various freezers' doors.

Freezing doesn't place something into an alternate temporality of suspended animation. It just slows down the inevitable.