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worldbound0514 t1_ismxzp9 wrote

Reply to comment by shinobi500 in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

There's a saying that the rich man gets his ice in the summer, and the poor man gets his ice in the winter. Ice was very much a luxury in the summer time before the days of refrigeration

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