American refrigerators....

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The Bomb: a Life by Scottish author Gerard J. DeGroot, is not, overall, a funny book. One would not expect it to be, given that the subject is nuclear weapons. It does, nonetheless, have some funny passages. Like this one:

The first bona fide thermonuclear device was born in 1952. It was not a bomb in the conventional sense but more like a factory for producing an explosion. Nicknamed ‘Mike’, it weighed 65 tonnes and was two storeys tall. Most of its bulk was devoted to the refrigeration unit needed to keep the thermonuclear fuel at -250 degrees centigrade. Anyone familiar with American refrigerators should not be surprised at its dimensions nor at the capacity of the US to build it.

Comments

[dragonbane.livejournal.com]

Do the Scottish have trouble fitting frozen pizza in their freezers or something?

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

We tend to have much bigger refrigerators here than is typical in much of Europe.

And can you explain frozen pizza? Every time I try one, I rediscover the fact that frozen pizza sucks. For some reason, though, there is a major section of the grocery store devoted to them, even though none of them are any good. This in a country where not only are there many fine restaurants that serve better pizza, but many of them will make one up fresh for you and deliver it right to your home.

[dragonbane.livejournal.com]

I can't really explain it other than by pointing at McDonald's and shrugging. Some frozen pizzas are better than others (I'm partial to Tombstone and Red Baron Supremes), but none of them are even close to fresh pizza.

Actually.. I can explain it. With a frozen pizza you can feed a family of four (poorly) for $3.00. It's a nice change from Ramen. *eep*

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Real food can be cheap and tasty, if you have the motivation to do something closer to cooking than just heating... But as far as I can tell few people are very motivated. I myself am still trying to think up something I'm motivated to cook. Tofu tacos? Maybe...

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

I like frozen pizzas, but I don't put them in the same category as non-frozen pizzas. They're cousins at best. If your mouth is set for "real" pizza and you get frozen, of course it's a disappointment. Enjoyed on its own merits, it's... ...well, not bad. Similarly, a McDonald's cheeseburger isn't a very good cheeseburger, but it's very uniquely itself and sometimes that's what you're looking for.