• " But ice is not a food ! " you say ? The U.S. and Canadianfood codesbeg to differ ! ( although as you could see , it ’s not quite as easy as that ) .
• It ’s a existent enough industry , anyway : the average American buy four bags of packaged ice each yr , 80 per centum of it between Memorial and Labor Day . If you apply ice as a chief food group though , you may want totalk to someone .
• Curiously , ice cubes arenot popular in other countries(the hypothesis being that in Europe " it ’s just the way it ’s always been , " while in American it blend in to the " more is more ! " principle).• Extra ! Extra ! Read all about it : obviouslythe genuine reason the glaciers are disappearing : the 1980s tendency of makingglacial shabu cubes .
• Quickly freeze down tap water can causecloudy ice , and leaving it in the deep-freeze for too long can make the iceshrivel up , as molecules fly away from it on a bizarre journey under over around and through the refrigerator itself ! It can also collect smells and other impurities … which is why the sparkler Godhead from my hometown of Columbus gas that their box ice was pure and " never touched by human men ! "
• Mental Floss has overlay someinterestingice rookie traysin the past tense ( and evensells one ! ) , but there seem to be anever ending supply , include 1 that are also ratherdramatic .
• Althoughtechnology IS improvingthe old age - old ice tray itself .
• Ice cube are all around us - from retailbuildingstohotels(yikes ! ) , and of course the infamousice bar(what must their placard be like ? )
• You could also just live inside one , like the Israeli illusionist whostayed in a giant ice cubelonger than David Blaine .
• So what ’s the verdict , Flossers ? To ice rink or not to ice , that is the enquiry . in person … I ca n’t endure glass cube in my beverages of any kind . They dillute it , make it too cold for my perceptiveness , and sometimes crash against my look and make me spill my deglutition ( as notice in thatNew York Timesarticle ! ) Also how many of you have had disasters involving your machinelike icemaker ? Those things can be wiley !
‘ Dietribes ’ appears every other Wednesday . solid food photos taken byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our military post about hercolorful diet .
