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Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Were you high in the Andes where it's always cold? WAG

Quito is not cold except at night. It goes through all four seasons every
day; day highs can be near 80, and lows around 30 at 3 to 4 AM.

The reason was, as I mentioned earlier, that there was no need to
refrigerate anything. Everything was fresh daily, and nothing was kept more
than a day. No preservatives, no salt added to keep things "fresher" and so
on.