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Default Refrigerator -- terrible smell!

On 9/6/2013 12:09 PM, Oren wrote:
On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:22:46 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Did you pull out the drain pan? They are easily forgotten and can get
nasty


Exactly. Especially in units in the 50's - 60's. Areas with high
humidity. After cleaning the pan, Mom would add about 1/3 cup of
bleach in the pan that seemed to reduce any lingering smell.

Another nasty smell came from fish, Black Mullet. Due to the mercury
content the fish would not freeze completely and eventually was able
to rot in the freezer. Folks would salt cure the fish in an wooden
barrel before they had refrigerators.


If someone ate a lot of the poisonous mercury containing Black Mullet,
wouldn't that person pop their top if they got too hot or angry? O_o

TDD