Hey, you're listening to Outside End. I'm Nate Hedgy. I am happily married now, but I remember almost a decade ago when I was single, and man, it is hard to find a partner.

I mean, you might spend hours at a bar every week,

maybe go on a couple of blind dates,

then you spend your nights flipping endlessly through Tinderinder, hinge, bumble. And maybe if you are

particularly desperate you might reach out to a refrigerator dating guide.

His stick is to match people based on the contents of their fridges.

That's Nicola Twilly. She's co-host of the podcast Gastropod.

You can either submit pictures of the you can either submit pictures of the fridges of someone you've just started dating and and say listen any red flags

or if you submit your fridge he can suggest a match.

Nixelow wasn't looking for a partner.

She's married. She was actually doing research for a book about refrigeration.

So does he give you like a score on your fridge?

Well, you don't get a score, but you do get feedback, and I will say the first words out of his mouth were,

this chick is awesome when he saw my fridge.

So again, you can tell, you can tell how hungry I was for this but yes he I think was being was

being well more generous than I would be. I have a lot of Tupperware. I have an unseemly amount of alcohol. I have a lot of condiments.

This matchmaker, he started his refrigerator dating service as a kind of joke.

But the truth is, fridges really do tell you a lot about a person. Our lives revolve around refrigeration. They are a necessary and intimate part of our lives. But it wasn't always this way.

Today on the show, a conversation with Nicola Twilly, whose latest book, Frostbite, covers the absolutely bonkers history of refrigerated foods.

Over a hundred years ago, cold storage was considered unnatural.

This is immoral. It's going against the natural

progression of like death and decay like we're intervening in the natural order of

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