Ice to see you

[halphasian]

You know that famous anecdote about how, before the days of electric power, big ships used to go up to the Arctic to fill up their holds with giant blocks of ice chipped away from icebergs and bring them back to the U.S. to sell, and even though 75% of the ice melted en route, they still made a handsome profit, and then Thomas Edison started

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[hanjudy]

You're right, ice blocks are made from huge industrial freezing conveyors. The predecessor of Tiger Beer, 33, etc.. was BGI Company "Bierre Larue" in Saigon, there was/is a BGI factory on Hai Ba Trung Street, towards Saigon River dockyards where ice blocks were/are made daily to supply to restaurants, drinking holes, and home parties in the city and vicinities. BGI was short for Brasserie & Glacierie d'Indochine (Brewery and Ice Maker (Glacier) of Indochina). You need a hatchet or a chopping blade to cut the ice blocks down to size. Maybe something never changes again!