 If we travel to, say, Europe, it's impossible not to notice that most households there have much smaller refrigerators than are typical in U.S. kitchens. Why do we have such enormous machines? It is an interesting phenomenon. The U.S. fridge is substantially larger than European fridges. Fascinatingly, you know, the French door fridge, the double door fridge that is so trendy in France, they call that the American door fridge.