I don’t think most people under the age of 80 know, but I grew up around old bastards and am into antiques so it just kinda stuck out to me.
Have a rather fancy ice box from the 1890s that would’ve used metal shelves you put ice between which would then cool and keep an insulated cubbard chilled refrigerating the food within, between that and the fact it had a hose to drain the cold water which gather in a lower sub area as the ice melted it’d be about as good as a modern ice chest though you’d have to fill it with new ice every morning. Though it’s currently being used for clothes storage.
Same in Swedish:
Cold - Kyla
Cupboard - Skåp
Fridge - Kylskåp
Same in Danish (køleskab). And I bet it’s the same in Norwegian?
Yeah probably
So Swedish term for fridges is basically just icebox? My great great aunt would’ve loved the Swedes.
Finnish term still is, jääkaappi.
Pakastin is just literally a freezer, though
That’s too much a.
What do you mean? Ä and a are completely different letters
Coldbox, but yeah
I was moreso trying to make a joke on the fact that the Swedish word is very similar to the archaic English term.
I see! I didn’t know that
I don’t think most people under the age of 80 know, but I grew up around old bastards and am into antiques so it just kinda stuck out to me.
Have a rather fancy ice box from the 1890s that would’ve used metal shelves you put ice between which would then cool and keep an insulated cubbard chilled refrigerating the food within, between that and the fact it had a hose to drain the cold water which gather in a lower sub area as the ice melted it’d be about as good as a modern ice chest though you’d have to fill it with new ice every morning. Though it’s currently being used for clothes storage.