Or what you keep in your fridge?
May 21, 2009 11:15 AM Subscribe
Are you what you eat? Mark Menjivar's pictures of people's refrigerators. Keep an eye out for...unconventional...food items. From Good magazine.
Ride the freezer snake.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:20 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:20 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
Stay away from my tortillas, you son of a bitch!
posted by Uppity Pigeon #2 at 11:21 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by Uppity Pigeon #2 at 11:21 AM on May 21, 2009
I was going to post this too. It's fascinating.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 11:25 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by Turtles all the way down at 11:25 AM on May 21, 2009
Since when is Coors Light "Fresh Produce"?
posted by not_on_display at 11:26 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by not_on_display at 11:26 AM on May 21, 2009
how is it that the blind person has the cleanest frig?
Probably because he/she has to. The ability to survey a mess and pick out what one wants is, I suspect, a luxury of the sighted.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 11:26 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
Probably because he/she has to. The ability to survey a mess and pick out what one wants is, I suspect, a luxury of the sighted.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 11:26 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
Lives on $432 fixed monthly income
That photo was heartbreaking.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:27 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
That photo was heartbreaking.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:27 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
how is it that the blind person has the cleanest frig?
When you're blind, you need to be damned sure to always keep things squared away and in the right place.
Want to really fuck with a blind person's head? Tell them you went into their closet and re-arranged the stripes and the solids.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 11:28 AM on May 21, 2009
When you're blind, you need to be damned sure to always keep things squared away and in the right place.
Want to really fuck with a blind person's head? Tell them you went into their closet and re-arranged the stripes and the solids.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 11:28 AM on May 21, 2009
What's with the snake?!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:28 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:28 AM on May 21, 2009
That just reminds me how dirty my fridge is.
posted by vespabelle at 11:30 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by vespabelle at 11:30 AM on May 21, 2009
That just reminds me how great Stubb's BBQ and beer taste together.
posted by psylosyren at 11:33 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by psylosyren at 11:33 AM on May 21, 2009
The carpenter's freezer with the meat and tequila made me glad I don't have to share his/her bathroom.
posted by ClanvidHorse at 11:34 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by ClanvidHorse at 11:34 AM on May 21, 2009
Okay, I really need to see some of these a week or two later. Especially "Midwife/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat locally grown vegetables. "
posted by Caviar at 11:35 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by Caviar at 11:35 AM on May 21, 2009
I like how that anesthesiologist has a pair of whipped cream canisters... it must be there for emergencies.
posted by crapmatic at 11:37 AM on May 21, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by crapmatic at 11:37 AM on May 21, 2009 [4 favorites]
i'd like to see photos of the fridge doors. i prefer judging people by their condiments.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 11:39 AM on May 21, 2009
posted by fuzzypantalones at 11:39 AM on May 21, 2009
When you're blind, you need to be damned sure to always keep things squared away and in the right place.
My comment wasn't about why his is so orderly - that i get. It was a reference to why some of the presumably sighted people had refrigerators so gross, i would have to be blind to eat something from them. Yuck. Even the snake isn't as gross as the yuck.
posted by domino at 11:41 AM on May 21, 2009
My comment wasn't about why his is so orderly - that i get. It was a reference to why some of the presumably sighted people had refrigerators so gross, i would have to be blind to eat something from them. Yuck. Even the snake isn't as gross as the yuck.
posted by domino at 11:41 AM on May 21, 2009
For some reason I assumed that the unusual food item would be a dildo.
I hope never to find out why I assumed that.
posted by cmoj at 11:52 AM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
I hope never to find out why I assumed that.
posted by cmoj at 11:52 AM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
Good Magazine also published a photo of me and my jetpack. What is my point? I have no point.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:52 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:52 AM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
I like the Cinnabon lattes in the death metal drummer's fridge.
There are some groups in Flickr with the same purpose (and this one is for portraits from inside the fridge; female nudes are accepted but male nudes are not).
posted by clearlydemon at 12:09 PM on May 21, 2009
There are some groups in Flickr with the same purpose (and this one is for portraits from inside the fridge; female nudes are accepted but male nudes are not).
posted by clearlydemon at 12:09 PM on May 21, 2009
Why is there a flag in this one? Am I missing some aspect of flag maintenance or care?
posted by barnacles at 12:13 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by barnacles at 12:13 PM on May 21, 2009
I really need to see some of these a week or two later. Especially "Midwife/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat locally grown vegetables. "
There would be even more of those little bottles of Sutter Home.
posted by uncleozzy at 12:16 PM on May 21, 2009
There would be even more of those little bottles of Sutter Home.
posted by uncleozzy at 12:16 PM on May 21, 2009
That's exactly what I was thinking cmoj. I think that means we need to get off the intertubes for a while.
posted by JoanArkham at 12:16 PM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by JoanArkham at 12:16 PM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
I always wondered where the fridges people threw away at the turn of the century ended up: Texas.
posted by Zambrano at 12:52 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by Zambrano at 12:52 PM on May 21, 2009
In my younger years, I had some odd pets for the children, and they occasionally pass on when the ground is frozen and you have to wait until spring to bury them. They are family, you know.
We did have a rule. Dead snakes in the freezer must always be double bagged. The outside bag must be a colored trash bag to avoid freaking out casual visitors who might drop into your freezer. Do not ask me why this happens, but it does, and you do not want your children known at school as those people with the dead snake in their freezer.
posted by unrepentanthippie at 12:59 PM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
We did have a rule. Dead snakes in the freezer must always be double bagged. The outside bag must be a colored trash bag to avoid freaking out casual visitors who might drop into your freezer. Do not ask me why this happens, but it does, and you do not want your children known at school as those people with the dead snake in their freezer.
posted by unrepentanthippie at 12:59 PM on May 21, 2009 [2 favorites]
You need to get that motherfuckin' snake out of that motherfuckin' freezer!
posted by Foam Pants at 1:07 PM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Foam Pants at 1:07 PM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
If this fridge is in a single-person household, why is there a "PLEASE DON'T TOUCH" sign on the item in the lower left-hand corner?
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:36 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:36 PM on May 21, 2009
Rattlesnake is tasty. Python is too chewy.
posted by dirty lies at 1:55 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by dirty lies at 1:55 PM on May 21, 2009
Curse you western states and your readily available Fat Tire. WANT.
posted by felix grundy at 1:56 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by felix grundy at 1:56 PM on May 21, 2009
If this fridge is in a single-person household, why is there a "PLEASE DON'T TOUCH" sign on the item in the lower left-hand corner?
Because he/she cooked it/had it cooked at work, and stashed it in the walk-in cooler until his/her shift was over.
posted by Brocktoon at 2:16 PM on May 21, 2009
Because he/she cooked it/had it cooked at work, and stashed it in the walk-in cooler until his/her shift was over.
posted by Brocktoon at 2:16 PM on May 21, 2009
kuujjuarapik - in the comments to the photos, the photographer corrects himself; the boat is a crab boat, and he links to pics of the "youngest son" posted by the fridge's owner.
posted by catlet at 2:36 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by catlet at 2:36 PM on May 21, 2009
Lives on $432 fixed monthly income
That photo was heartbreaking.
The caption's the heartbreaking part. My fridge looks a hell of a lot like that photo, and I'm fine with it.
posted by gman at 2:39 PM on May 21, 2009
That photo was heartbreaking.
The caption's the heartbreaking part. My fridge looks a hell of a lot like that photo, and I'm fine with it.
posted by gman at 2:39 PM on May 21, 2009
I wonder what is in that plastic bag.
Why is there a flag in this one? Am I missing some aspect of flag maintenance or care?
Looks like a towel to me.
posted by obol at 2:54 PM on May 21, 2009
Why is there a flag in this one? Am I missing some aspect of flag maintenance or care?
Looks like a towel to me.
posted by obol at 2:54 PM on May 21, 2009
I have a snake in the freezer story....
In the 1970s, my dad worked for a company that made snake-bite first aid kits (chemical cold pack, tourniquet, etc., not the suck-the-poison-out kind). Because of this, his company bought a lot of stuffed snakes.
The taxidermist they got them from would kill the snakes without damaging them by putting them in the freezer. One time, he put a big rattlesnake in the freezer one day. When he went to retrieve it the next day, he discovered the hard way that it wasn't dead yet.
I remember visiting him in the hospital with my dad. The surgeon had opened up his forearm to the elbow to let the rotting flesh drain. That made a big impression on my young mind.
posted by tippiedog at 3:08 PM on May 21, 2009 [4 favorites]
In the 1970s, my dad worked for a company that made snake-bite first aid kits (chemical cold pack, tourniquet, etc., not the suck-the-poison-out kind). Because of this, his company bought a lot of stuffed snakes.
The taxidermist they got them from would kill the snakes without damaging them by putting them in the freezer. One time, he put a big rattlesnake in the freezer one day. When he went to retrieve it the next day, he discovered the hard way that it wasn't dead yet.
I remember visiting him in the hospital with my dad. The surgeon had opened up his forearm to the elbow to let the rotting flesh drain. That made a big impression on my young mind.
posted by tippiedog at 3:08 PM on May 21, 2009 [4 favorites]
Thank you, Catlet. I didn't read those.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 3:14 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by kuujjuarapik at 3:14 PM on May 21, 2009
I am fucking terrified of snakes. It is official, never again will I go into somebody else's freezer.
posted by khaibit at 6:54 PM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by khaibit at 6:54 PM on May 21, 2009 [1 favorite]
The snake in the freezer was jolting. But very funny. Just sitting there in his frozen state, unaware that the internet world was watching him.
I would be embarrassed to post a pic of my fridge, chock full of science projects. But no snakes (as far as I know).
posted by mnb64 at 7:49 PM on May 21, 2009
I would be embarrassed to post a pic of my fridge, chock full of science projects. But no snakes (as far as I know).
posted by mnb64 at 7:49 PM on May 21, 2009
If one were to reach in and grab the snake, do you think it would stay in its coil like that, frozen in place? I hope so. I imagine some kind of awesome icy-snake-disc ring toss or something.
posted by Captain Cardanthian! at 11:05 PM on May 21, 2009
posted by Captain Cardanthian! at 11:05 PM on May 21, 2009
The third one down is a family after my own heart. Their fridge is packed with frozen meat and booze - yehaw!
posted by Kevin Street at 12:42 AM on May 22, 2009
posted by Kevin Street at 12:42 AM on May 22, 2009
Per the comments, the woman who can bench press 300 lbs found it in the desert. It was already dead. She intends to make it into a cane/staff.
I thought it was a dead pet. People will keep dead pets in their freezer in winter. They'll bury them in the spring when the ground thaws.
posted by deborah at 1:19 AM on May 22, 2009 [3 favorites]
I thought it was a dead pet. People will keep dead pets in their freezer in winter. They'll bury them in the spring when the ground thaws.
posted by deborah at 1:19 AM on May 22, 2009 [3 favorites]
I can never get my head around how bloody enormous the average American fridge is. You could climb into most of them, if you took the shelves out.
posted by Happy Dave at 1:22 AM on May 22, 2009
posted by Happy Dave at 1:22 AM on May 22, 2009
You could climb into most of them, if you took the shelves out.
Yep...and every now and again a child suffocates in a discarded one.
CPSC Warns About Suffocation and Death of Children in Old Refrigerators.
posted by ericb at 10:40 AM on May 22, 2009
Yep...and every now and again a child suffocates in a discarded one.
CPSC Warns About Suffocation and Death of Children in Old Refrigerators.
posted by ericb at 10:40 AM on May 22, 2009
Forget the CPSC, Punky Brewster does it better.
posted by uncleozzy at 10:46 AM on May 22, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by uncleozzy at 10:46 AM on May 22, 2009 [1 favorite]
Punky Brewster does it better.
Oh my...I shouldn't be laughing after watching that, but I am. So cheesy!
posted by ericb at 11:38 AM on May 22, 2009
Oh my...I shouldn't be laughing after watching that, but I am. So cheesy!
posted by ericb at 11:38 AM on May 22, 2009
I love how one of the healthiest-looking fridges belongs to someone who writes the obituaries for the local paper. Wonder if that has a "scared straight" effect.
posted by bibbit at 1:29 PM on May 22, 2009
posted by bibbit at 1:29 PM on May 22, 2009
uncleaozzy: I love how the old dude makes the kid feel like shit for not knowing CPR but then concedes as an afterthought that maybe he should have taken the door off the fridge in the first place -- ha!
posted by mazola at 3:37 PM on May 22, 2009
posted by mazola at 3:37 PM on May 22, 2009
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Organic cranberry juice will do that to you.
posted by Dr-Baa at 11:18 AM on May 21, 2009