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But in the early 1800s, one man saw dollar signs in frozen ponds. Frederic Tudor not only introduced the world to cold glasses of water on hot summer days, he created a thirst people never realized they had. In 1805, two wealthy brothers from Boston were at a family picnic, enjoying the rare luxuries of cold beverages and ice cream. They joked about how their chilled refreshments would be the envy of all the colonists sweating in the West Indies. It was a passing remark, but it stuck with one of the brothers.
His name was Frederic Tudor, and 30 years later, he would ship nearly 200 tons of ice halfway around the globe to become the "Ice King Ice Man Cometh Nothing in Tudor's early years indicated that he would invent an industry. Frederic convinced William to join him in a scheme to ship ice from New England to the Caribbean. No one believed the idea would work. It did. Breaking the Ice The End of the Ice Age. Fat Chick Fashion Plea — Aiming Low.