A strange little side quest
Labubu Hidden Burger may feel immediate, but the ideas around food history have been evolving for a very long time. Electric refrigeration reached the American mass market in the late 1920s, changing how households stored food and even how desserts such as ice cream could be made at home. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. That gives Labubu Hidden Burger a little more company than it first appears to have.
