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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 6:14:16 GMT
I hate going into other peoples fridges !
They're alway so seemingly messy or crudded up, even though they're probably no different to mine. But because I know MY food and the odd stain on a shelf, or the gummy stuff that you get round a sauce bottle top or something, I'm comfortable with that. When it's somebody elses, of an unkown origin, it repels me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 6:17:10 GMT
That's quite true.
I have also noticed that when a refrigerator is spotless, it generally has nothing in it... just an apple sitting on the shelf or a jar of mayonnaise. Some people probably think that food is too dirty to put into their refrigerator.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 10, 2009 6:18:25 GMT
You wouldn't mind my sister's fridge. She keeps so much stuff in it that nothing ever falls over so it's always clean. I'm not exaggerating -- if you want something out of the crisper or the special little drawer for cold cuts, you pretty much have to pull it all out to see what's in there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 6:26:57 GMT
I took a picture of my brother's refrigerator the last time I visited.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 10, 2009 6:28:24 GMT
That's not your brother's refrigerator ~~ that's my sister's!
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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 6:31:50 GMT
and little plates of cling-filmed meat or cooked sausages or something. Fine when I've cooked 'em, but in somebody elses fridge, I ain't going ANYWHERE near the greasy horrible things ... !
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 10, 2009 6:38:47 GMT
Yeah -- you just know that someone has ruffled up an edge of the cling film to filch out a piece with their unwashed fingers.
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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 6:49:15 GMT
Proletariat scum.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 10, 2009 7:50:24 GMT
What is particularly awful is looking into our children's fridges. Where did they pick up these habits from? Why are there these jars with maybe a teaspoon of jam in them? Why (shudder) is there this pork pie with a best-by date a week ago? Damn it, why is there blackcurrant syrup but no white wine?
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 10, 2009 7:55:21 GMT
I like going through other people's fridges but I'm shy about it. They always seem nicer than mine.
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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 7:57:32 GMT
Baz, when you say children's fridges, do you mean your offspring, who are potentially adults now, or do you mean your kids actually have their own fridges ?
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 10, 2009 8:03:07 GMT
My daughter is coming up to 39. Mrs Faz has a son who is 44, and two daughters, the younger one staring 40 in the face and flinching.
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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 8:07:10 GMT
Ah. It was the use of 'childre' that confooozled me. Mind you, getting a separate fridge for your kids once they hit a certain age, say 9 or 10, would be GREAT to show them how much of a drain they are......
Stock it up at the start of the week, and they have to make it last. Eat it all in the first few days, and they go hungry. That'll learn 'em..
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 10, 2009 8:11:40 GMT
We need a separate freezer when the grandchildren come to stay. One is lactose intolerant. Another is wheat intolerant. The parents all have their English faddy ways. The freezer groans with foods I would never eat
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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 8:14:23 GMT
EXCUSE ME ....... ! ? ! ?
English Faddy Ways ... ?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 8:16:42 GMT
This photo will be coming up in another thread, but I think it will help most of us to feel better about our own refrigerators.  |
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 10, 2009 8:21:13 GMT
Yes, English faddy ways. Every English person under the age of 45 who stays here has fads that you simply don't encounter otherwise. Oh, I don't like mushrooms/red peppers/fish/rice/chillis/blue cheese/pork/tomatoes .... I could go on.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 8:27:29 GMT
Are you longing for Polish visitors, Baz?
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 10, 2009 9:12:09 GMT
Hints have been dropped by Maria but I haven't responded.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 10, 2009 9:27:15 GMT
No, he's longing to have me as a return visitor.
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Post by gyro on Mar 10, 2009 9:27:43 GMT
Oh right. Mind you, I suppose if any other nationality said they didn't lke something, or preferred something else, it'd be considered CULTURED ....
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 10, 2009 9:33:40 GMT
Belive me, Polish Maria is as demanding as English visitors - and she is in her 70s. On top of which she is rude. She is in a category of her own.
So, Spindrift, when are you coming? Have you checked Flybe yet?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 11:17:58 GMT
The fridge in #15, are those tomatoes? I thought ,rather I know,refrigerating tomatoes makes them mealy. Or maybe it's only tomatoes that aren't fully ripened.Those look pretty ripe.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 11:32:39 GMT
This refrigerator was in Egypt. I think that perhaps leaving the tomatoes out would have caused them to spoil very quickly in the heat.
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Post by tillystar on Mar 12, 2009 10:28:21 GMT
Gosh I am English and under-45 but I wouldn't dream of doing that in someone else's home, I'd even force myself to eat anchovies if you had cooked them in something. I honestly don't know anyone of my friends who would turn their noses up at anything either.
Maybe you need to invite more people from Saff East London Baz. We'll eat anything and be grateful its not jellied eels.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2009 10:59:17 GMT
It was an annual ritual for me to clean my mother's fridge when I would visit (i do visit more than once a year). She always had the most unbelievably cluttered refrigerator you ever saw.(she would be mortified at my sharing this!). Doubles,sometimes triples on condiments, jars with just a smidgen of something. Nothing too spoiled or rotten thank god. It was always a joke between us,now she has a live in caretaker and the fridge is spotless and devoid of clutter. I kind of miss it.
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Post by gyro on Mar 12, 2009 11:52:02 GMT
I enjoy finishing a carton of juice and then putting it BACK in the fridge. Many say this is a Man's Right ...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2009 12:11:56 GMT
I come close to that,I'll leave a teeny bit of something sometimes,drives Mr. C. crazy,"you couldn't finish that?". I tell him I left it for the Gods.
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Post by palesa on Mar 13, 2009 6:01:53 GMT
My fridge is currenly over flowing with well meaning gifts of food that I cannot eat.
But generally, I try to clean my fridge once a week because I put things in a tupper and forget alll about it, so I need to clean regulalry to stop the mould invading.
But Gyro, I also do not like other people's fridges.
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Post by gyro on Mar 13, 2009 6:25:35 GMT
It's all in the presentation, and the knowledge of preparation. And yes, ha! that plastic container of STUFF that you find in there and can't remember how old it is. I know that feeling WELL ....... !
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