>>>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...


Glasses can be beakers (esp when plastic) or tumblers (originally so called cos they had rounded bottoms).