Dee Randall > wrote:

> "S Viemeister" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Gil Faver wrote:
>>
>>>> I believe it serves as a bread box.
>>>
>>> The next obvious question is: why metal for a bread box?
>> Because rats and mice can chew through wood.
>
> If rats and mice were in a wood box, it would be harder to clean
> antiseptically.

And you could hear the mice and rats in a steel drawer more than a
wood drawer.

-sw