The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: store in the refrigeration."
In my fridge-less fifties childhood, I was fed will and healthily. The milkman cane daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased; fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation, vast way of well-tried techniques already existed- natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, and bottling.
What refrigeration did promote was marketing- marketing hardware and electricity, marketing aft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in
A. "Hum away continuously".
B. "Climatically almost unnecessary".
C. "With mild temperatures".
D. "Artificially-cooled apace".
Passage 4 The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label:“store in the refrigerator.” In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus (剩余) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country. The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well-tried techniques already existed-natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling… What refrigeration did promote was marketing-marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around
A. Inventors.
B. Consumers.
C. Manufacturers.
D. Traveling salesmen.
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