Gawddamn. My fridge isn't nearly as well designed as this.

That lift-out produce drawer/window in the door! Why does my cold pantry not have that shit?

Trivia:

While not exactly proven (correlation is not causation), the wide spread introduction of refrigeration for food storage probably was the reason behind the gross decline of GI Cancer as a major source of death before the 1930s...

"Until the late 1930s, stomach cancer was the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Now, stomach cancer is well down on this list. The reasons for this decline are not completely known, but may be linked to increased use of refrigeration for food storage. This made fresh fruits and vegetables more available and decreased the use of salted and smoked foods. Some doctors think the decline may also be linked to the frequent use of antibiotics to treat infections. Antibiotics can kill the bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (H pylori), which is thought to be a major cause of stomach cancer."

American Cancer Society...

The mechanism appears to have been the move away from pickling/smoking...and towards fruits/vegetables/etc which an in-home refrigerator let you use...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1971721/?page=1

My grand parents fridge was well over 30 years st still working strong when they died. Same for their freezer unit in the basement. 30+ years old. Today's unit cheep plastics keeps you reburying one every 10 years.



Did not know that GE made these.

Trivia:

Everyone's missing a key point here: The reason this is so great is it isn't a refrigerator; it's a cold pantry.

That should clarify what's happened in the last 60 years: just like with DVD and VHS, these things were pushed off the market by Big Pantry. Why spend a ton on a cold pantry when you can have a room-temperature pantry at 2/3 the price, amirite?

The vegetable lobby found that people weren't throwing out produce they could readily see.

What about my friend Jesus, where does he put his bike? Oh, Jesus has no place in this house. No? Si.

Some things don't have a place in an American household. But outside in the garden -- everything in its place. Good work on them hedges and that lawn -- perfection!

Too many shelves. Won't have enough room to keep all my severed heads.

While it's true that today's consumerism is much heavier reliant on planned/forced obsolescence, it is also a survival bias to say "they don't build them like they used to".

Old stuff that lasts for a very long time lasts that long because it was originally constructed well. So 99% badly manufactured stuff disappears and gets replaced.
Is there no high quality products that were manufactured to be that 1% either by choice or by luck?

If the statement "they don't build them like they used to" was true, cities would be 100% ancient buildings and we'd still be driving Model Ts.

This video talks about it much more eloquently:

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I'll take one! Sift of the week.