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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by toomanybeersies on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:52AM (#16762174)
Before refrigeration, people would use evaporative cooling to keep things cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by Cthulhu_ on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:55AM (#16763079)
And cooler cabinets, where they had blocks of ice in a compartiment at the top of a closet (of sorts).

(source: guided tour of a late-1800s castle with a fully equipped French kitchen complex. Complex because they had rooms for separate tasks.)

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