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Finally, after waiting for centuries, the world gets what it has long deserved:

The Fridge Society!

I was inspired by Trillian2005 who was inspired by former VT member ddevito who was inspired by Anchovy56 to take a picture of what's on my fridge.
Years of debating this topic with others have convinced me to found the Fridge Society to show the world what really is in on behind in front of under next to our fridges. There'll be a growing collection of pics about the secret life of the fridge... a collection that will make us understand our fridges (and ourselves) better! Yeeha!

As of September 16th, 2009, the Fridge Society consists of the following members:

1. King_Golo (aka Golo), President appointed for life. The coolest member of the coolest society on VT!

2. Trillian2005 (aka Gabrielle), 1st Fridge Historian, wannabe Vice-President and constantly compassing evil plans for coup d'etats... so far 17, if I've counted correctly. Blessed with a witchy laughter.

3. haiamisa (aka Sirpa), 1st Fridge Minister and world-class travel poet. Curious about toilets. Committed the sin of treason by founding a Toaster Society!

4. NiceLife (aka Andrew), _ice correspondent. Having a nice life somewhere in a warm country. Still figuring out why of all persons he ended up in the F.S.

5. themajor (aka ???), The Major. Little known about this man but that he's making his wife a hard time by placing Victorian fridges in their living-room and locking in his sausages...

6. ddevito (aka Denise), Vodka Senator on the rocks. She's a mystery - not to be found anymore on VT!

7. Skywalkerbeth (aka Beth), Beth in the sky with ice-cubes. (Come back down, Beth, we're missing you!)

8. Anchovy56 (aka David), Frozen Fisherman in da Hood.

9. aaaarrgh (aka Sean), 1st Frozen Food Architect. Fluent in Welsh!

10. Tinci (aka Tinsky), 1st Fridge Magnet Representative (a very important job when taking into consideration all of the F.S. members' fridge magnets!).

11. jefie (aka Isa), the iciest of icicles!

12. CesVT (aka Cecile), ice flower expert

13. budapest8 (aka Tim), proud owner of 5 (!!!) fridges. I'd say Fridge Society Foreign Minister - 5 fridges, 3 countries...

14. Stephen-KarenConn (aka Stephen and Karen), owners of a trillian - eh, trillion fridge magnets.

15. Pawtuxet (aka Janet), who enjoys glueing doggies to her fridge.

16. Manara (aka Anna Maria), who wants to work as ice-cream semiologist to finally decipher the role of 16th century Lakeshore Estonian Ice-cream wrappers... Moreover, she's willing to work as ice-travel minister, and we all hope that she'll manage to get us free flights to Antarctica!

17. bilgeez (aka Bill), who claims that there used to be a "Fridge Club" before the famous Fridge Society existed - sounds like a lot of rubbish to me, but who knows? Perhaps our F.S. historian has failed to work properly?! Too busy in revolting, I s'pose! Anyway, welcome Bill, proud owner of the biggest fridge!

Still waiting for member no. 18, preferably from Antarctica... Fridge aficionados of all countries unite! (And please send your taxes to me!)

So, here's what's on my fridge: nothing! Well, sort of nothing - only one tiny Mumin fridge magnet from Finland!
But on top of my fridge there's a Laotian tablecloth and two bottles of cheap Chinese brandy which I've got for my birthday!

Here's what's in my fridge as of August, 21st, 2007: 1 pack of butter, 1 egg, 1 tiny bottle of sparkling wine, 1 jar of cherry jam, 1 sack of onions, 1 sack of potatoes, 1 carton of milk, 1 bottle of ketchup, 4 kinds of cheese, 4 kinds of sausage, 1 can of corn (although I don't like corn - so don't ask me how it ended up in my fridge!), 2 packs of frozen baguette, 1 pack of frozen peas and carrots, 2-3 frozen chicken filets.

*harharhar* (despotic laugh and tyrannic face!), here's what makes me deserve the post of the President of the Fridge Society: my second fridge!!! Well, it's empty and not in use, but anyway...

To clarify something: Only people who own two fridges and only use one of them are posh enough to be President of the Fridge Society! Don't trust in those owning 5 fridges scattered on 3 countries... Uhm. That's it.

Having stayed in Raatuse dorm, Tartu, Estonia, last spring, I had to share a fridge with some flatmates... What a humiliation for the President of the Fridge Society!!! Anyway, of course I had to take a fridge pic, so see for yourselves.

Hablas Espanol?! Que mala suerte si no, porque mi refrigerador habla!

I've only discovered today that my Estonian fridge (called Zenith) is not nearly as Estonian as it pretends to be. In fact, it tried to shock me by giving me instructions how to defrost it in Spanish (and only in Spanish!). Here's what it said:

"Importante: Para que el refrigerador trabaje eficientemente debera de ser descongelados cuando el espesor de la capa de hielo formada en el congelado alcance un espesor de 12mm. No usar herramiestas o utensilios afilados o con punta para remover el hielo!"

Too stupid, that I only read about not using sharp instruments to get rid of the ice after having stabbed the beasts' homes...

Here's the best way to defrost a Raatuse fridge used by up to six (!!) people:

First, fight your way through the following contents of the fridge:

1 lemon extract, 1 pohlatoormoos (some kind of jam), 1 ketchup, 3 opened packs of sour cream, 6 packs of milk, among them a large one, the long-moldy remains of kapsasalad, 1 pack of apple juice, 1 plate of Finnish style meatballs (recipe from a Donald Duck cookbook), 1 jar of black olives, 2 jars of pickles, 1 jar of some weird Russian soup, 1 jar of a similarly weird Russian borshtsh, 3 remains of Rakvere viinerid, 5 packs of butter or margarine (preferred kind: Voimix), 4 packs of joghurt (strawberry), 1 bottle of mayonaise, 2 packs of ham, 2 packs of very strange cheese (almost fluid!), 1 can of Gin alcopop, 1 bottle of beer, 1 giant pack of joghurt, 1 salad, 1 pack of Hiirtejuust (cheese), 1 pack of Eesti Juust (also cheese), some tomatos, 1x parsley, 1 jar of apple squish, 1 pack of cream, 2x carrots, 1 jar of cherry jam, 1 jar of syrup, 1 jar of macaroni sauce, 1 jar of whatever Italian sauce, 1 pack of frozen peas (no talks necessary!) and 1 pack of something else frozen

Second, open the ice-box.

Third, DON'T stab the ice. DON'T use knives! DON'T do what I did! DON'T give a damn about instructions in Spanish!

Fourth, try to close everything again.

Fifth, if necessary use some metres of tape to tape the unclosable ice-box door to the top of the fridge.

Sixth, give up hope, dispose your fridge at the local waste fridge disposal and emigrate to either Greenland or Antarctica!

News:

WE'RE FINALLY FAMOUS!!! The almighty Giampiero, boss of VT (*bowing humbly into his direction*), chose VT's Fridge Society to appear in His divine monthly newsletter. Read here what Giampiero has to tell us:

VIRTUALTOURIST NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2007:

Giampiero Ambrosi writes:

"May the Fridge Be With You!
If you have any doubts about VT's cool factor, look no further than the VT-member-run Fridge Society. As seen on the pages of Trillian2005, the club's "Comrade Chi Tri and Fridge Historian," the subsociety owns a collective magnet collection strong enough to pull a train. Applicants are welcome, but criteria for admission are tough; members specialize in Ice Cubes, Frozen Food, and Fridge History. If your travel magnet collection just isn't quite there yet and membership eludes you, you might consider going out for another VT sub-group, the cryptic Virtual Tourist Secret Toaster Society, which only recently, "popped up". "

Ah, the sunny life of the famous... Wait! Why am I not mentioned there??? Is that yet another coup d'etat? REVOLUTION!!!

Viva la sociedad de frigorificos!

Weird things going on in the VT society at the moment... some people, who shall remain unnamed here for secrecy reasons, have founded a very secret completely exclusive Toaster Society (TS)!
Toasters! What the...?! As they even call themselves "the hottest subgroup of VT" and decided to exclude my toaster for reasons I cannot but speculate about, I decided to start another new society: the not-really-quite-secret Puzzle Society (PS)!
Puzzled? So was I when I first discovered the ultimate puzzle... But see for yourselves!