Originally Posted by Ditter43
Originally Posted by Rhonda
Do you know why it was called an ice box? My mom was an antique dealer so I have seen the real ice boxes.
I remember iceboxes. My Grandma had one when I was little. The iceman would come and put a big block of ice in the top of it to keep things cold inside. He would carry it in with a big pair of metal tongs!
This is interesting as "yes" I know what a icebox is and now when someone says that food is still hot or warm don't put it in the fridge until it cools! Well "we can" now, but then if you did this it would have made that "expensive" piece of ice melt faster. Thinking about this....we now have high electric bills and back then they "could" have had high "ice" bill (if warm food was put in the icebox) every month. Heck my grand kids think they can keep the fridge door open as long as it takes them (looking for food) to decide what they want to eat as if they are watching a video.