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From: ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net (ItsJoanNotJoAnn)
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Subject: Re: Ice industry ruined.
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 02:22:01 +0000
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 2:13:17 +0000, Ed P wrote:

> Ice houses were great and provided employment for people.  Someone came
> along and destroyed the thriving industry.
>
> It might be one of the world's most transformative inventions when it
> comes to our diets, but the refrigerator was initially met with a frosty
> reception. Although ice houses such as the one pictured were relatively
> popular with the upper classes, everyday people relied on techniques
> such as pickling to preserve their food.
>
> When electric refrigerators were first brought to market in the early
> 1900s, they were dismissed as noisy, expensive, and difficult to
> maintain.
>
> To make matters worse, ice was America's second-biggest export after
> cotton at the time, and critics widely slammed the refrigerator as they
> believed it would harm the domestic ice industry.
>
> However, following a series of developments from the likes of General
> Electric, refrigerators became much more practical for home use.
> Consumers began to "warm up" to the world of electric refrigeration and
> never looked back.
>
>
Thank goodness for refrigerators.  Let's add automatic
washing machines to that list, too.

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