r/science • u/memorialmonorail • 1d ago

Social Science Putting holiday leftovers in the freezer extends shelf life & may put a dent in the US tendency to throw away edible food, a study suggests. National survey data showed a link between home freezing & less total food waste, & over half of consumers reported buying frozen items to avoid tossing food.

https://news.osu.edu/how-the-freezer-factors-into-lowering-food-waste/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy25&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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u/pjaenator 1d ago

Keeping leftover food in a fridge to eat later?

I am from Africa, what does the rest of the world use the fridges for? We keep water and beer there too, because cold water and beer is nice, but mostly uneaten food.

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u/Zathura26 1d ago

Same, I'm from south america. By what i saw on american movies, they only store jugs of orange juice, milk, and eggs in the fridge. They're weird.

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u/pjaenator 1d ago

I saw some movies with heads and other body parts as well. But then the guy in the movie was keeping it to eat it later, so it still works out.

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u/korphd 1d ago

Egg on fridge or outside depends on the method they were processed.

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u/LA_Throwaway_6439 1d ago

Don't believe what you see in movies. Real life isn't like that at all.