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You Are What You Eat

The things in your Fridge tell us more than you think

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You Are What You Eat

Look inside in your fridge. There is a lot more to look at than just food. Your fridge is a visual representation of the person you are, and the type of life you live. You truly are what you eat.

One secret talent of mine, is to look inside someone’s fridge and make brash generalizations. I know; sounds impressive. At first you would think it seems silly to think you could learn a lot about a person or their family based on what’s in their fridge. But, you would be surprised.

From someone's fridge, you can get a true idea of their health, lifestyle, income and even what kind of romantic partner they'll be.

There are a lot of factors to keep in mind while examining someone’s fridge. First get permission. People don’t like other peoples staring inside their fridge for ten minutes. Once you have been granted permission, then you can stare away. And if you don’t have permission look anyways. The first thing I’ll do at a house party is go look inside the fridge. Assuming I am even getting invited to any parties, people don’t always want the freak who examines fridges being let into their party. But in this rhetorical fantasy world, I’ve been invited to a party (let’s baaaaallllll), and I’m going straight for the icebox.

The first thing I usually examine is the model and condition of someone's fridge, which tells a lot about their social class and income. When I moved into college I shared this really crappy fridge with my roommate that we held together with duct tape. This leads to the first point, which is common sense, but the nicer the fridge the further along people are in their careers, and the more money they have. "

Once inside, a fridge's hygiene says a lot about someone's personality and quality of life. A messy chaotic fridge means this person probably has an equally chaotic life. But a regularly empty fridge is also probably a sign a person is constantly busy and won't be an available partner. If you see someone with an extra clean fridge with all their meals for the week labelled and planned out, you also want to stay away that the person is probably really controlling."

That’s the basics, though, anyone can do that. The examination get’s more elaborate. Certain brands are popular in certain geographical areas, There's also a lot of politics in the food world, and you can sometimes tell what social causes people support based on what brands they do and don't have in their fridge. And from the brands inside someone's fridge, you can figure out where they're from, what they like to do and their social views. For example if they have a lot of whole foods or farmers market items, then they obviously lean liberally, and love large government, no exceptions. If they have a pigs head, they obviously love to hunt, and are republicans. Once again, no exceptions. If someone has a lot of organic foods and reusable containers, they're likely environmentally conscious, And if you see three different brands of beers and appetizer foods, that person is probably very social and hosts a lot of gatherings and parties."

Your fridge can also be an accurate reflection of your health. Your refrigerator tells you how much control over your food, body and health you really have and how much of that control you're sacrificing to the food industry.

An empty fridge with lots of shelf space means you likely have a more heavily stocked pantry, which usually stores processed foods that don't go bad for a long while.That means you're likely to have a lot of empty calories in your diet. The average American now gets 60 percent of his or her calories from processed food, citing a recent study by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

If you see a lot of takeout containers, you're probably the kind of person that likes to let other people make decisions and think for you, while also adding that takeout people probably have a lot of excessive salt, sugar and fat in their diets.

The leftover fish taco’s are never going to look appetizing once they have left the restaurant. When it comes to nostalgia, food isn’t the most appropriate device.

There are a lot more rules and secrets, but I don’t want to share them so I can still feel special and unique. But I can give you one last rule of thumb. If a person puts peanut butter in their fridge, and not inside their pantry, they are a serial killer.

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