Just a note: cheese shops store hard unsliced cheese outside the refrigerator. Sliced and soft cheese is refrigerated pretty much everywhere. (and I prefer to

Just a note: cheese shops store hard unsliced cheese outside the refrigerator. Sliced and soft cheese is refrigerated pretty much everywhere. (and I prefer to think about the chicken thing more as respect for other sentients, not "nature". But that's just a nitpick). EDIT: oh, and back in Poland people also store bought eggs in the refrigerator. EDIT: also, after reading contradictory statements from Belgians: by Netherlands I mean Noord-Holland, by Poland I mean, um, Warsaw. Though I think it's by regulation in Poland.