Gourmet ice....and link to NY Times article

Here's a bit from the linked article online today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/fashion/10ice.html?ref=todayspaper

CAROLYN POLK did not start out as “an ice snob.” For most of her life, Ms. Polk, a 41-year-old St. Louis native, staved off the blistering heat of Midwestern summers with the generic cubes that clunk into a freezer bin like clockwork or drop down a mysterious chute in the refrigerator door.

A couple years back, though, Ms. Polk noted a change in the habits of her guests, who casually started bringing their own ice, she said. Her ice, as it eventually turned out, was apparently not to her friends’ liking.


“Maybe the cubes were the wrong shape or they didn’t taste that good, I’m not sure,” Ms. Polk said last week. “But it got to the point where people came for cocktails, and they were bringing different bags of ice.”

Mari

OMG! To me, ice is just ice, although I prefer crushed to cubed. That's about as far as it goes. Perhaps my palate isn't distinguished enough to notice a difference? I found that article to quite funny, mainly because it took itself pretty seriously.