perishables

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Perishables should also be packed in insulated bags with cold sources, like ice packs, during transport if they’ll be away from a refrigerator or freezer for more than an hour.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024

Perishables currently are funneled through one of the company’s four food distribution centers or through infrastructure owned by C&S Wholesale Grocers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 14, 2016

Perishables and perfumes—such as the Guerlain Homme, Lacoste, and Ralph Lauren colognes given, in 2014, to General Martin Dempsey, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the chief of Qatar’s Armed Forces—are simply tossed.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2016

Perishables were kept cool in ice boxes, fed by blocks of ice delivered on horse-drawn wagons.

From Economist • Jan. 10, 2013

Perishables and manufactured stuff alike were subjected to use, reuse and then, by transformation and mending, to yet more use.

From Time Magazine Archive