"Then Ironbender throws in a career of selling refrigerators to Eskimos. (In jest,,,I think)"
I dunno if he did or not, but someone did. Freezers too, often times. They have largely gotten away from holes in the permafrost in the last few decades. Not entirely, but for the most part.
The whalers in Barrow, etc, still use holes in the ground to store whale meat and blubber, but even they are having thawing/flooding problems at times.
Pretty soon, they will be almost civilized.
When we were in Barrow mid-90's, a new Principal came into the elementary school during the summer, between school sessions. Black lady.
During the tour of her new domain, the staff didn't want to show her the big walk-in freezer.
They had a corpse stored in there, waiting burial.
