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Time Traveling Great Grandpa

Back before refrigeration, people preserved food by curing and drying it. One of these foods was salt pork, which had a high fat content. Sailors would usually run through all the good things to eat and then be stuck with what was left,. So they would sit around eating it and complaining about it. Thus we have the phrase, chew the fat. We'll take a quick break for some apropos of nothing. Hey, time traveling great grandpa. What's up? How does it stay cold? Sit in the ice box? No, no. I can make ice though. You got to push the button on the front. Make ice a miracle. Oh, let me

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