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frozen sugar that punishes greed with a railroad spike straight through the skull
means A semi-frozen drink of flavored, sweetened ice crushed into a drinkable slurry, sipped through a wide straw.
from A diminutive of "slush," that half-melted snow-and-water mush underfoot in winter — a word of Scandinavian flavor, possibly related to dialectal forms like Norwegian "slush" or "sluskr" for something soft and sloppy. The "-ie" ending is the friendly, marketable suffix English loves to slap on treats, turning gray street muck into a cheerful cup of color. The drink itself rose with mid-20th-century frozen-beverage machines, and brand names like the ICEE and Slurpee made the slush respectable enough to drink on purpose.
- brain freeze
- cold palate tricks nerves into faking head pain
- accidental birth
- invented when a soda machine froze and broke down
- original name
- sold first as the Icee in 1958
- physics trick
- liquid stays unfrozen until straw disturbs it
- 7-eleven empire
- Slurpees sell roughly 14 million cups monthly
icee — carbonated frozen beverage brand created in 1958, found in movie theaters and arcades
luigi's italian ice — frozen dessert chain across north america serving since 1959