>>>One of the Americans I worked with in Manchester -- pretty much the ugly American abroad -- always complained when he ordered Coke and it came with no ice. "They have the technology," he would say in a withering way.
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>>Yes, but someone stole the recipe.
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>And the recipe is (and no, I did not drink Coke - when forced to choose, I go for root beer - the best toothpaste taste ever) "put as much ice as needed to fill the glass(*) and then thread the colored liquid into any space left between.
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>once upon a future they'll make hot irons out of plastic but still call them irons, just like these "glasses" are made of styrofoam or plastic...
I meant the recipe for ice. ( old Polish joke )
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- Thomas Hardy
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