Random Retro Riffraff #9: The Fridge with a Thousand Faces

Here’s a question that’ll haunt me for the rest of the week: Why, why, WHY did they stop making refrigerators with frames around the doors, so you can customize them with “curtain fabric, wallpaper, floor vinyl, or a photo of your favorite husband”?

Add this to the file of Ingenious Ideas That Were Too Good for This World, along with Zima and Freaks and Geeks and Jello Pudding Pops.

If I had a left nut, I would sell it for one of these.

 
Of course, this is what my refrigerator looks like now, so the 1967 Whirlpool Connoisseur Twin would’ve been wasted on me:

The black magnet (top center) reads “Better watch it before I creep on your girl and commit the robbery.”

Coming soon: the results of the Revolting Vintage Recipe Challenge I issued in this post. At the suggestion of faithful reader Urb, I made Frosted Meatloaf just the way Mom used to make, if Mom was a sadist who liked to hide lumpen gray meatbombs in perfectly angelic piles of mashed potatoes. Stay tuned for the blow-by-blow!