Post by SusanBAnthony on Oct 29, 2020 7:23:30 GMT -5
I was amused.
Now I'm going to go clean my fridge.
I assume the empty ones are neurotic people like me and stuffed full ones are people like my in laws who never throw anything away, they just shove old stuff to the back until I come at holidays and throw away all the expired food.
I got 45% right. I found that mostly the overstuffed ones were Trump and the ones with organic items were Biden. I thought my fridge was a mess, but I feel better about my housekeeping now lol.
The only reason I put bread in the fridge is because I've always had asshole cats that would jump up on the counter to eat it. That being said, we haven't had cats in a while, and I still put it in the fridge.
I got bored and stopped. We all eat food. The end.
same. I made it through like 10 and was like "why am I doing this?" and stopped.
I also learned that most of you would be appalled at the messiness of my fridge. I try to keep it organized and it generally is, but after 2 weeks or so its just embarrassing.
My current tiny rental fridge and my old normal size fridge are stocked very differently just based on size. There are so many things I don't have room for. So it's very minimalist out of necessity.
ETA: I didn't do the quiz. Just read all your comments here.
H likes to buy bread at Costco, so we freeze it since you usually have to buy 2 loaves at a time.
I couldn't open the slides, but this reminded me of the piece years ago that showed what a family ate in a week (maybe it was a month?) around the world. That was fascinating to me.
I quit giving the NYT my money a long time ago mostly because of this shit. Good Lord, who cares?
But I'll add that I'm not sure I could eat cold bread. Do people let it warm when they take it out of the fridge? Even when I lived in humid places, the bread was in a bread box.
Post by downtoearth on Oct 29, 2020 13:28:05 GMT -5
I think the point was that we all eat food and our at-home food choices don't really indicate how we vote. I think if anything, it indicates that we buy a lot of condiments in the US and most of us are recalcitrant to actually make our own sauces. Plus I was surprised that there are huge swaths of people who still drink soda and juice regularly that I wasn't aware of (Biden and Trump supporters).
I got like 60% at the end after like 45 fridges. Shrug
I guessed 100 times and got 54 right... I got worse as I went.
Some things that kept me on the right path - mountain dew drinkers are primarily republicans. More times than not, lots of plastic water bottles were trump voters. Fancy water drinkers tended to vote for Biden.
And some Biden voters like Tillamook.
But both like country crock and that threw me off.
Texas toast = texas = Trump. Same for Duke's mayonnaise (southerners anyway).
The only reason I put bread in the fridge is because I've always had asshole cats that would jump up on the counter to eat it. That being said, we haven't had cats in a while, and I still put it in the fridge.
My 20lb beagle once ate an entire Costco sized loaf of bread (the ones that are like 1.5 times the length of a normal loaf). She looked like a tube. It was both hilarious and horrifying. This event prompted us to buy a bread box.
We still have no idea how she got it off the counter.
H likes to buy bread at Costco, so we freeze it since you usually have to buy 2 loaves at a time.
I couldn't open the slides, but this reminded me of the piece years ago that showed what a family ate in a week (maybe it was a month?) around the world. That was fascinating to me.
The variability in weekly spending is not surprising exactly, but is still somewhat astounding to me. That families of roughly the same size can survive on as little as $2 US a week and the Norway family spends over $700 is kind of amazing.
I thought my fridge was cluttered and gross...I now feel better! Thank you for that, at least.
tacokick that’s us..my husband does the cooking and shopping...he refuses to make or take a list and we end up running out of basic necessities by Wednesday each week. Our fridge is so bare by mid-week...!!! It drives me bonkers!
Also, my bread is in the fridge only because it’s gluten free bread that we buy from the refrigerated section and (obviously) needs to remain in the cold.
But my parents in Florida always put their regular bread in the fridge otherwise it would quickly get mold due to the humidity.