Our first fridge
@allknowing (153530)
India
April 11, 2019 3:33am CST
Not everyone those days owned fridges and so when we decided to get one it was talk of the town. Neighbours, friends and family dropped in to see it and asked questions.
I was in a mighty hurry to churn out desserts. I experimented with jelly, ice cream, blamanche, china grass, chocolate mousse, pineapple souffle, falooda you name it and I tried that. .
The reason to get back from work as early as I could was so that I could just spend time preparing all those desserts each day a new one.
I do not suppose any of you were as excited as I was
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
11 Apr 19
That also happened to us siblings when our father bought our first fridge, as a family. He always would buy ice cream or make one like that in the picture made from slices of bananas and strawberries bought from the supermarket or those canned lychees.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Apr 19
I always liked trying out new recipes and being fond of sweets there was no limit.
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
14 Apr 19
@allknowing Good for you that your being fond of sweets has no limit.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Apr 19
We had that experience as well. We were the first ones and all kids gathered at our place. It was a black and white.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
11 Apr 19
Same same in my grandma's house, the sala was filled with people sitting on the floor, mostly men if there was a boxing match, families when it's movies and children when it's cartoons ( Popeye). I remember the cabinet type TV and the brand was "Radiowealth"
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
11 Apr 19
My grandmother was one of the first to have a refrigerator in our neighborhood in old Manila, the brand was Frigidaire, the funny thing was on the inside door there was a big plastic button shaped like a life saver with the words " LIFE SAVER"
I remember my aunt telling me to push that button if I get accidentally locked inside
people were so ignorant of refs that they could actually get accidentally locked imside
, the locks were hard metal unlike magnets used today.
people were so ignorant of refs that they could actually get accidentally locked imside, the locks were hard metal unlike magnets used today.1 person likes this
@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
11 Apr 19
@allknowing here's the continuation lol! My mother not to be outdone also bought a " frigidaire " for us in our house it was a more sophisticated model, it had a pedal type lock that you need to step on it first in order to open the door
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
11 Apr 19
I have always seen a refrigerator in the kitchen of my parents, since I was a very little girl. I can say I grew up with a refrigerator in the house, nothing really exciting about the fact to have one. I even remember the brand of the old one "Zoppas", I remember because my father offered our old fridge to my grandparents when we bought a bigger one and my grandparents still had it when I was already married
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Apr 19
Remember I am in India and here those days it was not that advanced as it is now
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Apr 19
@LadyDuck Both of us always got whatever was introduced in the market if we benefited from it.
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
11 Apr 19
@allknowing I do not know when refrigerators became a normal appliance in Italy, surely later than in the United States.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
12 Apr 19
Here in India we did go slow those days but now I think we have more to show.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
12 Apr 19
I just made mango ice cream. It has turned out great.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
11 Apr 19
@allknowing I imagined from your explanations.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
11 Apr 19
We had it after we got married but not many had fridges in those days.
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