Re: The cost of food

On 15 Apr 2008,  wrote

> HVS <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 15 Apr 2008, Lesmond wrote
>> 
>>> 
>>> And we'll buy the whole beef tenderloins on sale for $4.99/lb
>>> and grill filet mignon for a few weeks.  It helps to have an
>>> extra freezer, which is a luxury for poor people, I realize.
>> 
>> Is it taken as a given that poor-enough-to-be-on-food-stamps
>> families over there have a proper freezer, and not just an
>> icebox that's part of the fridge?
> 
> I don't know what counts as a proper freezer over there, and
> what is an icebox that's part of the fridge.
> 
> This would be the typical, with the top thing being the freezer.
> http://dannyseo.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/fridge.jpg
> which category is that in?
> 
> I think that would be the most common type for poor people to
> have, assuming they had anything.  I know those are common among
> the rural poor, I don't know about the center-city poor.
> 
> There are "dorm fridges", which have the freezer compartment
> actually inside the fridge compartment rather than being
> separate compartment on the same chassis.

That's what I meant as an icebox -- a thing with a door that's 
inside the fridge compartment.

I was thinking of a "proper freezer" as being rougly the same size 
as a fridge -- like a separate deep-freeze, or a half-a-fridge job.

The one in the picture you linked to would be sort of intermediate 
size to me -- more than big enough for a single person or a couple, 
but a bit cramped if you had a family of 4 and wanted to stock up 
on a month's worth of bulk-buy meat, veg, ice-cream, etc.

-- 
Cheers,
Harvey