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[deleted] t1_isme3fk wrote

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stumcm OP t1_ismey9y wrote

You dispute that Australia needed to import ice from overseas before 1851?

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Ken-Popcorn t1_ismqjpn wrote

No, mea culpa, I’m tired, I read it as being imported here from Australia

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drygnfyre t1_ismflc3 wrote

They might have been common in Australia, but the ice itself had to come from somewhere. That's what the article is about. It's not saying refrigeration in other forms did not exist before 1851.

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