Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. When I was watching some TV ads in Australia, I often heard that "buy fresh meat in our supermarket" or "try our fresh apples" or "we cook fresh chicken". Then I feel confused. Ex: In my country, if you say "I eat a fresh apple" means that u eat an apple that have just taken from the tree 5 mins ago". For them, "Fresh" means "have not spoiled".
Then the supermarket is saying that "I am selling a fresh chicken to you". It means "I am selling not-spoiled chicken to you though the chicken was dead for long period of time, it just has not spoiled cos the supermarket stored it in the fridge. Often the sense is chilled, but not always fresh milk is chilled, longlife milk isn't, and wouldn't be described as fresh, fresh meat is always chilled.
Of course, before refrigeration, the only way to get something fresh was to pick it just before consumption with a few exceptions - apples, onions etc.
You can think of the condition being approximately the same as in the historical case, the technology to achieve that condition not being particularly relevant. In the sense of bakery products, "fresh" should mean baked recently- for some value of recently appropriate to the product. Generally this would mean on site or nearby, and perhaps not packed in a sealed packet.
However to describe something as "not fresh" would implies that it's past its best - slightly stale bread for example, so it's not quite the opposite. Technically fresh should mean "recently from the source," as you indicate. However probably as a result of marketing the meaning has degraded, at least here in America.
Since there are no to my knowledge legal barriers to using the term however you wish, people have taken to using it to mean anything that hasn't been frozen, previously cooked, or otherwise processed.
Most people here understand there are two meanings, one used in general, and other used when someone is trying to sell you something.
I can't speak for other parts of the world, but fresh in the United States means "not yet frozen" and "has not yet had a chance to decay". Wang Mingli : The trade data is ugly, which points to a weaker economy ahead, even if there are fresh stimulus measures, they're aimed at aiding the economy, not the market. Popularity rank by frequency of use fresh 1 Select another language:.
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