franc111s

OK, here's a Monday morning question for you.

Why OH Why OH Why is my HUGE / MASSIVE US Refridgerator always FULL UP. What did we do in England with Fridges 1/4 the size? How on earth did we survive over there?

Is it one of those mystery's where you always use whatever space you have. I checked yesterday and we had 7 different types (2 liter bottles) of fizzy drinks. That took up half the space. My beers I suppose took up some more but overall it was SO full up. I wonder how I survived in the UK!!

ImHere

Its the Ice. Well it is in our freezer bit anyway. That and all the take home boxes full of bits of meals we couldnt manage...

AmerLisa

I found that the products I used in the UK were either smaller or we were able to buy a smaller size or we didn't put it in the fridge. We were out shopping one day and saw a fridge approximately the same size as our UK one and stood there looking at it in amazment. lol

The one thing that I absolutely hated about our fridge/freezer in the UK was that it wasn't a self-defrost.....so we'd have to take everything out and defrost that sucker....god I hated that!

ImHere

You may be right, but I was too busy staring at your avatar again to really take in what you said.

TouristTrap

You mean that you haven't gone out and bought a second fridge to store your drinks in? How unAmerican!

Dimsie

I suppose we didn't need to keep as much cold liquid available for most of the year, and I certainly didn't have to keep lots of bottled drinking water to avoid bad cases of the runs.

I don't have an enormous fridge here(only 2 of us) , not much bigger than my UK one, which was one of those retro Smeg type fridges, and quite spacious. But here the fridge is always choc-a-bloc due to US husband's insistence that we "stock-up" with the biggest jumbo size of every damned thing!

snowbunny

Lisa's right.... a lot of it is the freezer compartment. It looks the size of a small desk drawer to me. I need ice! not to mention the abundance of frozen food in the US.

In most of the UK you could just chuck some stuff outside and it'd stay cold. Not always true of the US. We also tend to buy larger milk containers since we don't have milk delivery and right now there are two half-gallons in mine: skim and 1% milk. (The SIL does skim; my brother and I 1%.)

And IME the English go shopping more often -- it's usually a lot closer to home. Americans aim at going maybe once a week!

snowbunny

Oh yeah.... the disaster-preparation type. Does he have a flashlight and portable radio, and fresh batteries?

mandpete

We must slowly be turning into Yanks. We have a big fridge/freezer in the kitchen, a fridge in the basement for soda, beer etc. and a chest freezer in the garage. They are all full most of the time but my 13 yr old son can never ever find anything to eat.

snowbunny

That is because you're supposed to predict in future what he'll want to eat on say the 27th June. And buy it at the correct time.

dbark

Ooooooh .... you just made me blush.

That's exactly what we did this year!

mandpete

LOL. He told me he loved Hot Pockets/Hot Subs so when they were on offer I (at his request) bought 15 assorted boxes but he's not keen on them anymore so we have plenty of those in the freezer. There again he's like that with all food, I never know from one day to the next what he likes and what he doesn't like.

Oh, how I love being the Mum of a teenager.

snowbunny

Yup, love it one day, hate it the next. Ah well, they change their minds more frequently than their undies at this age!

NC Penguin

Though my US fridge/freezer is bigger than my UK one, they have always been full. This is just the way I am.

When we're at other people's homes and the other half comments how other people's fridges are nowhere near as full as mine!



NC Penguin

ImHere

Full of frozen penguins?