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The advent of frozen food - someone has looked into the future... Engraved illustration from Punch's Almanack for 1882, published by Punch, London, in 1881. Punch was a British magazine newspaper founded in 1841, famous for its humorous and satirical cartoons which were created by some of the foremost illustrators of the day. The Almanack was a supplement. Freezing food as a method of preservation, although it had been practised for centuries by trappers and natives of polar regions, did not become a commercial possibility until the 1920s.