Figure 1: A picture of the main compartment of the refrigerator. Figure 2: A picture the main compartment of the freezer. Figure 3: A picture of the sub-compartment of the refrigerator. Wanda and I asked a friend of ours to get his mother to take pictures of her refrigerator at home. The refrigerator is split up into several compartments, pictured above, instead of having two main compartments; being the fridge and freezer.
At first glance, the thing that sticks out the most for me is the large drawer of primarily pop as shown in Figure 3. There isn't a particularly large number of any single type; the most being five bottles of diet coke. I'm not sure if this means they buy packs of the sodas and are able to drink through them fairly quickly or if perhaps they buy the sodas individually, maybe at gas stations, and store them for later use. Either way, it's no surprise that an average household would have lots of pop considering companies gruel and grime over the perfect bliss point and marketing scheme to get consumers to buy more and more as Michael Moss explains in The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. Taking a look at the two main compartments - shown in Figures 1 and 2 - it can be deduced that frozen and processed foods are a typical trend. There is no fresh produce in the refrigerator, but in its wake are plenty of snack foods and condiments. The freezer tells a similar tale, holding several boxes and bags of frozen food to be microwaved for later. Something from the Oven talks about how companies advertised their products as something so quick that being late to work is no longer an excuse to skip breakfast. The convenience of the items present here tells me that this is the refrigerator of a working class family who's limited time means something quick and readily available is a must. Wanda mentioned in her blog post that she thinks that the refrigerated bread means they don't eat it often, however I disagree and think that they're trying to be more efficient by putting the bread in the fridge to lengthen its time before molding in a cabinet; the foods that can last long periods of time without spoiling are prevalent so as not to waste money. Overall, besides the fact that there is no produce whatsoever, I find this to be a fairly average refrigerator - at least what I define as an "average" fridge. Processed food is a common household item nowadays, and finding freezers and fridges filled it the brim with them is not out of the ordinary.
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