Ice cubes

[Louisa]

Following a conversation with another member of the forum on the M&S thread, I have learnt something new tonight. Supermarkets 'sell' frozen cubes of water, commonly known as ice. Has this always been the case? How many of you buy ice rather than make it at home? I am genuinely astonished this is what has come of the world in the 21st century. Buying ice cubes. Amazing.

Louisa.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Definitely not 21st Century as around long before that. I should think most people only buy it in by the bag if they're having a party. Especially around here where they probably like to use filtered or bottled water for ice cubes.

[KidKruger]

I've bought the odd bag of ice before at Co-Op, usually for parties, BBQs or cocktail evenings - basically whenever I need a fair amount of ice. I've also had ice delivered by an ice company based in Camberwell, when I need like 20kg of ice for a beer tub.

Making such an amount in fiddly ice cube trays takes too long and is too much hassle. Any ice I make in the freezer is using sealed sandwich bags filled with water and frozen, then when I need it I unwrap it and smash it up.

Ice is cheap, so hardly a significant waste of money to buy 3-4 kilo bags for like ?1-2.

[Seabag]

You've never seen Ice Cubes for sale?

OMG you are dead in the real world

[rendelharris]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Following a conversation with another member of

> the forum on the M&S thread, I have learnt

> something new tonight. Supermarkets 'sell' frozen

> cubes of water, commonly known as ice. Has this

> always been the case? How many of you buy ice

> rather than make it at home? I am genuinely

> astonished this is what has come of the world in

> the 21st century. Buying ice cubes. Amazing.

>

> Louisa.

Perfect for parties when you want to fill a dustbin with water and bottles of beer for cooling, the quantity needed for a decent chill couldn't be produced at home.

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Next week's episode: Louisa discovers wine is also sold in boxes to much merriment

[Lowlander]

You can also buy water in bottles! Who on earth buys water in bottles when it comes from the tap?

[KidKruger]

I've also noticed that (would you actually believe this) Co-Op AND M&S are selling bottles of water.

Yes bottles.

Just water.

Water comes out of your taps at home, right ?

It's probably just an ED (so far up their own arses) thing, but as the 23rd Century approaches it may catch-on and before you know it everywhere will be doing it.

More money than sense, these over-privileged blow-ins.

ETA: Why does "b l o w - i n s" get auto-translated to "@#$%&" ?

[KidKruger]

SNAP !

[Mick Mac]

Ice cubes is definitely worth a whole thread. Who knew.

[*Bob*]

What's wrong with saturating perishables with salt, placing them in a bucket and lowering down into a well during the warmer months?

When I see the johnny-come-lately 'new' East Dulwich types with petrol-drivel engines and refrigerant gases - I truly despair.

[KidKruger]

Yesterday I saw some pretentious twats walking around covered in those things, they call them 'clothes', it really gets my goat. Why can't they just walk around naked like normal people, hunting boar and bear to make a skin to wear when it gets colder in a couple of months ?

Bastards.

[Robert Poste's Child]

What about shops? Degenerate incomers too lazy to hunt, gather and farm for themselves.

[ed_pete]

Perhaps you should check out the range of ice cubes in Iceland.

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-pure-ice-premium-ice-cubes-2kg/p/44701

[DulwichFox]

Lowlander Wrote:

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> You can also buy water in bottles! Who on earth

> buys water in bottles when it comes from the tap?

Yep.. Peckham Spring Water. Mangetout Rodders

DulwichFox

[Louisa]

To be fair to Iceland, they specialise in frozen produce, so it isn't a big surprise they also indulge in this phenomenon. I can appreciate how a bar or restaurant may need ice, and I always knew some big producing factories made the stuff for large events, but I had absolutely no idea such things were available in supermarkets sold at such a disgraceful premium. Next you'll be telling me you can get branded mineral water ice, also available carbonated. Bizarre.

Louisa.

[JohnL]

Buying ice cubes is one of the best things of the 21st century.

The nightmare of getting ice from the freezer in the 70s/80s will come

back with Brexit I suppose.

[DulwichFox]

You can even get LED Ice Cubes that can be frozen to make your drinks cold..

Coming to a Bar near you soon.. Will add a couple of quid to your cocktail..

Is that Cool enough.. ?

Foxy

[????]

Drinking anything below room temperature is a pretentious, middleclass affectation - to be honest it's typical of blow-ins, looking down on us born and bredders with their chilled drinks

[*Bob*]

What IDIOT would choose paying a whole ?1 for a 2Kg sack of ready-made ice cubes instead of filtering their own water through a Brita jug, carefully pouring it into 30 ice cube trays, carefully carrying them to the freezer, trying to stack them all up without spilling the water, mopping up the spilled water on the floor and in the freezer anyway, waiting for them to freeze, squeezing them all out into a bag as your thumbs go blue - and remembering to get it all done 'in advance' of your friends dropping by en masse instead of remembering the instant they arrive that 'sorry I don't have enough ice'?

[DulwichFox]

Yer.. Buy a bag of Ice Cubes.. then on the way home they partially thaw out.

Put them in your freezer when you get home where they will re-freeze and stick together into one big clump of ice..

Put them in a tea towel and smash with a rolling pin.. Instant Frappe..

Foxy.

[*Bob*]

A 'supermarket'? What kind of masochist would go there?

[lavender27]

Ice cube bags, fill with tap water turn upside down and the water doesn't come out, ingenious. (How does that work) magic!!!

[Alan Medic]

Are you lying down Louisa? Do you know you can buy fresh air too? ?80.00 a jar.........

http://www.aethaer.com/about

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Louisa's would be more interested in hot air