BURNING QUESTIONS The long history of ice cubes

Erica, Please pass along my thanks to the reader who said "I can't wait for the next article on some earth-shattering topic like the history of the ice cube,".
The article on ice cubes was very interesting!! Thanks.

The history of Ice Cubes", gee I can't wait for the next episode of American Idol, Survivor....

Was just visiting a plantation outside New Orleans, Louisiana. They said they had ice cubes in the 1830s. How on earth did they do that...?

Curiosa wrote:

Was just visiting a plantation outside New Orleans, Louisiana. They said they had ice cubes in the 1830s. How on earth did they do that...?

Are you sure it wasn't a rapper calling himself Ice Cube?

what a cool story lol

Curiosa wrote:

Was just visiting a plantation outside New Orleans, Louisiana. They said they had ice cubes in the 1830s. How on earth did they do that...?

Ice houses. They would cut up frozen ponds during winter and store the ice in a ice house insulating the ice with bails of straw or some other material. The ice would keep for use during the summer. Generally it was only the rich who could afford to have ice houses.

Ice cubes were actually used around 1000 BC by the chinese!