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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Ice industry ruined.
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:18:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-01, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
> In article <c46cf9fbbccec5d14116e163853b1965
> @www.novabbs.com>, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net says...
>
>> Thank goodness for refrigerators.  Let's add automatic
>> washing machines to that list, too.
>
>    If  I could only have one of those, I'd choose the  
> automatic washing machine every time.

I'd rather have a refrigerator.  I can send my laundry out
to be beaten on rocks in the river by someone who needs the
work.

>   My grandmother (died in the 1950's) never had either.
>
>  For food storage she had a pantry with a perforated  
> metal meat-safe. Its sole purpose was to keep flies and 
> rats off the meat. 
>
>  She did  all the laundry by hand  (family of 9),  for 
> which every drop of water was carried into the house (ice 
> cold) in a bucket from the cast iron hand pump shared with 
> neighbours.

My grandmother died in the 2000's.  She had all the stuff, except
maybe a dishwasher (family of four).  Automatic washer, dryer,
plumbing, forced-air heating, maybe even central air-conditioning
by the end.  She even developed a taste for Mexican salsa in her
old age.

My mother and I lived with my grandparents until 1966 (when I
was 9 years old).

-- 
Cindy Hamilton