But It Doesn't Twist

The Netherlands, home to Rembrandt and Vermeer, a once world-leader in science, trade, and exploration; where water-management remains an international model, is for me, surely the only place on earth that uses these things:

Don’t know what that is? How could you? Here it is in context:

Instead of this:

The Dutch use these:

Here’s the only explanation I can muster: the houses are small. That means that storage is limited by design, which means, of course, that closets are not what most ‘mericans are used to. But most of all it means…the refrigerators are tiny.

The Dutch refrigerated version of Where's Waldo?

Tiny. So small that you are prone to say things like, “Oh look, they give you this cute little beer frig; where is the regular one?” But I digress.

Let me straighten this out…houses are small, storage is limited, ice boxes are tiny, you shop every day…soooo, it doesn’t matter if your bread and stroopwafels are allowed to go stale because the Dutch think these space-age food storage clasps actually work; or maybe they just like stale food.