BonesOfTheMoonWhat did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.
That sounds like a great way to make stale bread…
Things we refrigerated that I’ve seen others not refrigerate:
- jelly(US)
- ketchup
- mustard
Things we didn’t refrigerate that I’ve seen others do:
- peanut butter
- honey
- oil
- soy sauce
- oyster sauce
poVoqHoney depends on the quality. Real honey will basically never turn bad (they found containers with thousand year old still edible honey), but the cheap stuff is sometimes mixed with sugar syrup etc. and then it needs refrigeration.
snooggumsSugar is also a preservative though.
The refrigeration is either to extend flavor or to prevent spoilage in hot and humid locations where mold can build on the parts of the container that dry out if it isn’t used often.