The internet is funny.

When I was a kid I would never touch leftovers. Since becoming an adult and paying for my own food, I always eat leftovers. There would be too much food wasted otherwise, and it is still perfectly good. New meal/leftovers are probably for dinner 50/50 percent of the time. It saves a lot of money on food bills, and promotes healthier eating habits (you don't just eat what you crave every night.) 

I read it as him saying that he has a nice fridge. 

And nope, I've never met anybody in my life who doesn't have a refrigerator in the United States and lives in a permanent housing situation, although I am sure a few exist. 

Here are the statistics. Only .4% of poor households did not have a refrigerator in 2005. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/30-million-in-poverty-arent-as-poor-as-you-think-says-heritage-foundation/242191/

Wow, 80% air conditiong. I would love to be that poor.

I usually just end up letting them sit in the fridge until they grow legs. I intended to eat them but I always get something different the following day. Lol

Thread is about leftovers but we're talking about ppl who own refrigerators and air conditioning? lol this thread derailed quick. Lol

The U.S (even in the Northern states) gets a lot hotter in the summer than much of Europe. A lot of poor people have a room where they put a cheap (<$100)  air conditioner for the hot summers so that if they need to cool off they can just go to that room. It is suppose to be 91F (32.7 C) tomorrow in my relatively nothern location of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it has been in the high 80's for a week now.  It will be 105 F (40 C) in Tuscon, Arizona tomorrow. The closet climate to Northern Europe in the United States is the Pacific Northwest. 

One of the things the original British and Rhinelander colonists noted about Pennsylvania was that the winters were especially cold and the summers were especially hot, and Pennsylvania is a northern state. 

For diagram below 70F = 21C; 80F = 26C; 90F = 32C;  100F = 37C. 

Those graphs are a bit misleading as it includes the colder June days. 80F are a normal summer temperature in Germany and not even considered that hot. 90F is quite frequent in the middle of summer. We also get extreme temperatures like 100F.

Considering that you already need air conditioning from 80F up, weather is certainly not the reason why they're so unusual here. It's a cultural thing.

I knew you were drinking as soon as I read your suicide thread post. Wish I would have said something. I eat leftovers. Yours sound pretty decent. I miss pesto. And I think most food makes you feel slightly less drunk, even though your blood-alcohol level remains the same.

Sure, American convenience culture and the cheaper cost of electricity also play a part, but I still contend that the main point is the hot temperature for longer extended periods of time. A 90F day once in a while is very different from 90F for most of the days between late May and early September which many U.S states experience. There is also the issue of an overall higher humidity in the United States, which makes it harder to maintain a lower body temperature because sweating is less effective with more saturated air. The United States just has longer and more consistently warm weather than Northern Europe. This is a fact. 

Consider Pittsburgh's average July temperature of 82F, and at the same latitude is Majorca and Sardinia in the mediterranean with average July temperatures of 85F and 77F respectively. And remember again, Pittsburgh is a northern city in the U.S. The average high in July in New Orleans, for example, is 91F.  The average July high temperatures in the following German cities are: Berlin - 75F , Hamburg -72F, Dresden -74F, Frankfurt - 77F, Munich - 74F, Nuremberg - 75F, about the same from North to South, mostly due to elevation differences compensating for latitude probably. Source (https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Germany/temperature-july.php) Now here are some U.S cities: Atlanta - 89, Austin - 96, Baltimore - 87, Birmingham - 91, Boston - 81, Dallas - 96, Columbus - 85, Buffalo - 80, Detroit - 83. The only cities with anything close to Germany's July temperatures are Seattle - 76, San Fransisco - 67, and San Diego - 75, all of which are along the coastal west, which has more temperate temperatures than the east coast during July and actually have their peak temperatures in September. Source (https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-city-temperatures-in-july.php)