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ArmageddonSnakeEye t1_isqigkw wrote

Reply to comment by TheSpoonKing in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

Those are different. You're talking about a truck and just calling it another name. Aussies and their pridefulness

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TheSpoonKing t1_isqk2q3 wrote

I'm Canadian, and all I'm defending is the initial creation of the term, not the continued use of it to refer to vehicles that don't necessarily conform to its original requirements.

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