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>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/di...anted=all&_r=0
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>>> So, what did people do before fridges?
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>> Well, I wasn't alive in those days but from what I have read, they had
>> little shops nearby and they bought things as needed. They also wouldn't
>> have baked a casserole the night before.
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> They also had pots over the fire continuously and added things as they got
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> If that wasn't cooking in advance, what was it?
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> Never mind. Don't bother to answer.

And those things were kept hot! So not the same thing at all.