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allow him to do that, but then they ran with the idea.

Because this was already a cradle of innovation, they were ready immediately to start experimenting with different sizes and shapes of ice to make all different types of flavors and textures.

And by the 1860s, we are starting to see the first celebrity bartenders in America who are making drinks named after themselves because they're so popular.

there any examples of industries that have been transformed or changed or or even born because of ice so for example the fishing industry um it exists because of widespread uses of ice until ice was able to be shipped um you know far long distances fish was just eaten at the coast because there's nothing worse than eating spoiled fish

But with ice, fish could be packed in ice and traveled or in shipped long distances.

So the fish industry is one example.

The brewery industry is another great example.

The American beer like Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch,

Miller Lite, these are all forms of lager, which is a type of beer that can only be brewed at cold temperatures.

And ice allowed that brewing to take place.

And then it allowed bottles of lager to be shipped as well.

And so we can thank ice for the fact that we can now buy Budweiser at almost any grocery store in the country.

But perhaps one of the most interesting industries to happen because of ice

is the convenience store.

So going back to kind of the late 19th century, there was a mechanical ice company in Texas called the Southland Ice Company.

And this was a very large company.

It had ice stores across the state.

And people would stop at these places, usually on the way to run other errands, kind of like the way we stop for gas today, to pick up blocks of ice to put into their ice boxes.

Well, one of the managers of one of these ice stores noticed that some of his clients complained about how they had forgotten a household staple like milk or bread.

And so he started to stock those things.