Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Japanese Eat Ice. [ARTICLE]

Japanese Eat Ice.

The Japanese are probably the only civilized people in the world who eat ice in the way they do. Blocks of small cakes of ice smashed into tiny pebbly pieces are eaten with sugar and lemon or any other mixture one may fancy. But by far the commonest way of eating ice is to shave into snowy flakes by means of a plane and swallow it with sweetened water into which various appetizers may be thrown, such as fruit juice or sweetmeats, says the Japanese Advertiser. Ice cream, milk and eggs shaken with ice, and other kinds of cooling beverages are sold in an ever-increasing quantity, but the old style of eating ice—that Is, in the above described “korimidzu” fashion — is still in the greatest vogue. Every summer finds the number of kori shops swelling at an enormous ratio.