Climate-Friendly Cocktail Recipes Go Light
on Ice
Scientific American,
by
Amy Brady
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
7/3/2023 7:50:34 AM
In the early 19th century, more than 100 years before electric refrigeration, an entrepreneurial Bostonian named Frederic Tudor landed on an idea: He'd cut blocks of ice from his Massachusetts lake and sell it to places where temperatures were too warm for ice to form naturally. Potential financiers thought this plan was too absurd to work. How would he ship the ice without it melting, they wondered, and who would buy it when it could be harvested for free?
Ultimately Tudor not only succeeded at distributing and selling ice—his trade revolutionized how Americans thought of food. Having access to ice
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/3/2023 7:56:02 AM (No. 1504722)
The killjoys on the Green Left, who want to take humanity back to the Nineteenth Century, don't like air conditioning or ice, and at happy hour they want us drinking our cocktails at room temperature. They should be room temperature.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
tisHimself 7/3/2023 8:17:32 AM (No. 1504745)
What is the psychological term for the mentality that wants to force others to do what they do not want to do?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/3/2023 8:32:30 AM (No. 1504752)
During every recent election campaign the dims claim that conservatives policies would take the country back to the 1950s while their "green new deal" woukd take us back to the 1850s.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2023 8:43:21 AM (No. 1504761)
Beyond stupid into farce.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/3/2023 8:52:26 AM (No. 1504774)
I'm waiting for the Unscientific Unamerican magazine to turn off their air conditioning in their headquarters. Next will be an article about climate friendly uncarbonated (no carbon dioxide), champagne, soft drinks and beer.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 7/3/2023 9:01:29 AM (No. 1504789)
This is getting silly. I guess they needed a story to fill space in their woke magazine as they had nothing else to write about this month.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/3/2023 9:04:21 AM (No. 1504793)
I guess the woke crowd should be served their drinks at room temperature to save the planet. Will make the bartender's job much easier.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2023 9:12:14 AM (No. 1504806)
Back when Scientific American was about science, and America, and not lunatic leftist political fantasies and other unscientific nonsense, I had a subscription for about 30 years.
That was cancelled in the early 2000s as the new editors decided that ALL articles had to carp and preach about the fact MMGW 'dangers'.
The left destroys everything they infest, and they infest almost everything.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
marbles 7/3/2023 10:06:32 AM (No. 1504850)
Dumber than dumb........but that's the left for you
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 7/3/2023 10:22:27 AM (No. 1504867)
Gonna make ice and dump it on my lawn!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
privateer 7/3/2023 11:01:01 AM (No. 1504899)
Belongs on their masthead: Better Fascism Through Science!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Citoyen 7/3/2023 11:04:03 AM (No. 1504905)
FTA: “ As the American West experiences water scarcity and energy prices remain volatile, the protocol for properly made cocktails doesn't look sustainable.”
Is this statement a joke? Or has Scientific American decided that “science” is a meaningless term used only to cudgel the peons? I live in the west and know firsthand that ice in a bar comprises a microscopic percentage of the water needed to make the west livable.
Next from Scientific American we will be hectored to stop showering and bathing. Golf courses must revert to sand dunes, sage bush and weeds. Maybe the only solution is mass extinction for us pesky Homo Sapiens.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/3/2023 11:06:29 AM (No. 1504909)
If she is just sharing some information she's gathered along the way, fine. If she wants to start a movement, get lost. Or as granny might say, ''Go rattle your bottles at Wallace's gate.'' 19th Century for STHU.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/3/2023 11:17:34 AM (No. 1504926)
Try to force Southerners to change from iced tea to tepid tea and there will be a new secession.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/3/2023 11:25:31 AM (No. 1504942)
It’s summer time. Even my dog gets ice in his water bowl.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/3/2023 12:33:17 PM (No. 1504988)
As soon as I saw 'Scientific American' in the byline, I knew it would be leftie feces.
I skimmed down a bit.... sure enough.
I wonder.... when will 'Scientific American' do an article on the child labor used in mining the various 'rare earth' minerals needed for the electric motors in the now-fashionable greenie-mobiles, or an article on the relatively huge amounts of pollution caused every time one of these vehicles catches fire.... or the increased risk of fire that follows every time one of these batteries get dented in a collision?
(Hint.... I ain't holding my breath.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/3/2023 1:15:01 PM (No. 1505026)
Interesting article. A little long but interesting.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2023 2:05:02 PM (No. 1505058)
Re#12, Scientific American ceased being related to science several decades back. If it was accurately named it would be called Lefty Political American, or MMGW Preachy American.
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