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I heard Australians put cereal in the fridge because of bugs
Oh yeah ๐ฑ In some places in the tropics really only the fridge is safe from ants getting into everything otherwise. They bite their way through regular plastic bags no problem.
God, the ants in Turks & Caicos were a nightmare, and food is crazy expensive. People who live there must have all their shit locked down or they'd be broke in a week. I always say I want to live somewhere tropical, but that had me rethinking some things.
Locals probably pay a different price than tourists. I have never been there specifically but this seems to be the rule in places where there is large income inequality between people who live there and visitors.
I'm not sure - we went to the grocery store in the residential area. We always do. It's just expensive to ship anything, so islands are always really pricey.
I'm from Oz and I feel like I wasn't informed of this knowledge. Maybe I've been eating bugs this whole time.
Most cereals have a plastic bag inside to contain the contents. Maybe people don't seal it properly and it let's in little nasty creepy crawly-ses.
Sorry had to make the Oz joke
Hmm that would also make sense.
Slightly related but there used to be things called bread boxes. I think it was to keep mice from eating your bread.
And not just mice. If designed correctly, they would help keeping the correct humidity so the bread neither gets too dry (and solid) nor too humid (and moldy)
I did this when I lived in a cheap apartment in Houston, Texas, USA. Cheap and sturdy, but we definitely had bugs.
I'm in the US and I do this after living in some questionable apartments over the years.