kokopilau t1_ism90ti wrote on October 17, 2022 at 1:01 AM

Reply to comment by Dwarf-Lord_Pangolin in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

There are also glaciers 2000 km away in New Zealand.

lsanborn t1_ismgmm0 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 1:59 AM

I’m thinking some enterprising Yankee had some room in the hold, or maybe something else he wanted to keep cold, in a ship already headed for Australia. We already had the infrastructure for domestic ice production and transport. He took a risk, the Aussies said okay we’ll take that and he made a pile of money until they figured out something better. It happened they figured out how to make their own quicker than someone else figured out how to get it from NZ at a profit.

2cap t1_isn50pk wrote on October 17, 2022 at 5:47 AM

i mean there are mountains in aus.

Set up some ice boxes in winter.

Some_Inspector3638 t1_isobezg wrote on October 17, 2022 at 2:03 PM

There really aren't.