On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:39:08 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
> wrote:

>In article >, Frogleg
> wrote:
>
>> Would *you* eat a rabbit that had been hanging in 85 degrees for a
>> week? Outside a smokehouse, I mean.
>
>If you lived in the country it wouldn't take that much work to dig some
>sort of cellar.
>
In the American midwest those cellars served two purposes. Year
'round root cellar and warm weather tornado shelter. Some are simply
dug a foot or two into the ground with a door slanted up the mound of
earth that's then put over it. Where there were actual basements
(upper midwest) there were frequently dug out chambers with the walls
left as earth and a door separating them from the main basement to be
used as the root cellar.
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