Apparently there's a lot of different terms...

[deird_lj]

Okay. I’m officially intrigued.



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[quinara]

Almost definitely. (I'm second-guessing myself on the potatoes-beans thing, because I'm suddenly remembering when I was really small and we did have a wall-high cupboard, with potatoes at the bottom and other stuff on shelves. But I don't think that's standard. I mean, as a rule, I think British kitchens tend to have several little cupboards (above and below the work surface) before they have big ones, so your stuff gets split up by necessity.

[gillo]

I think it depends on the age of the house; places built well before fridges were common frequently have walk-in pantries, usually with a stone slab shelf at the end to try to keep things cool on. All the police houses I lived in as a child (ten of them) had them. I'm currently staying with friends in a house built in 1820, which has one. OTOH I suspect some houses had them converted into downstairs loos where that was feasible.

[quinara]

Ah, that makes sense - it's true that I and most of my friends from home live in post-war commuter houses. (It may well explain why one friend's house, definitely much older than mine, had a downstairs loo right next to the kitchen, which I did always think was a bit weird... Dunno if it lets college off the hook for the fact that some of the Victorian halls have toilets in the bloody kitchen (they're in fully walled and doored-off cubicles, but it's a bit gross).)

Still, I'm thinking more of big cupboards (not walk-in) that people might have to accommodate all their food and I'm not really doing very well. I mean, even little bed-sit kitchenettes - in the ones my friends have food still ends up in clusters.