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Liberals Ruin Cake & Your Kitchen!

By Ronald Peabody · 12/9/2025

The War on Refrigerators: Are We Throwing Away Good Food?

Folks, I’ve been thinking. Really thinking. About our refrigerators. These humming metal boxes have become the center of our kitchens, sure, but at what cost? Are we blindly shoving everything into these cold compartments, ruining perfectly good food in the process?

I was speaking with Old Man Hemlock down at the hardware store – a man who knows a thing or two about preserving things, mind you – and he got me to thinking. He said his grandmother never refrigerated certain items, and they tasted just fine. In fact, he claims, sometimes refrigeration actually made things worse.

And you know what? He’s onto something.

I did some digging, and it turns out there’s a whole list of perfectly good edibles we’ve been wrongly condemning to the cold. Cake, for instance! Who knew putting a perfectly good cake in the refrigerator actually makes it stale faster? Seems counterintuitive, doesn’t it? We're protecting it from “spoilage” only to ruin the texture! It’s almost… wasteful.

Then there's honey. Real, honest-to-goodness honey. Folks are sticking that in the fridge and wondering why it turns grainy! It’s supposed to be a natural preservative, but we’re treating it like it needs more preservation! It's a slippery slope, I tell you. A slippery slope.

And butter? Soft butter spreads easier, folks. That’s just common sense! Why do we insist on making it rock solid with the chill? It’s a simple pleasure, the ease of spreading butter on toast, and we’re taking that away from ourselves!

I even read about people refrigerating things like lemons and limes. Now, I ask you, what’s the point? They’ll do just fine sitting on the counter for a spell. Seems like unnecessary fuss.

Now, I understand the need for refrigeration. Milk, meat, things that actually go bad quickly. But this constant shoving of everything into the fridge? It’s a symptom of a larger problem, a lack of respect for good food and traditional methods.

We're letting "experts" tell us what to do, instead of trusting our own good judgment and the wisdom of generations past. It's time to take back our kitchens, and our food, and stop letting the refrigerator dictate our lives! Let's reclaim the pantry, folks. Let's reclaim common sense. And let's enjoy a slice of cake that isn’t drier than the Sahara Desert!