If you’re anything like me, your dream house when you were a child didn’t just have a white picket fence, four big windows and an apple tree in the garden, but an American-style fridge-freezer taking pride of place in an enormous open-plan kitchen (the latter of which I’ve since rescinded on – increasingly passé).
It’s hardly surprising. These massive appliances were the jewels in the crown of any kitchen shown on American TV – whether cooking shows or sitcoms – and would be filled with all kinds of goodies that British children were never allowed (chocolate milk and Diet Coke included).
