Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by MickR

Oh, so it's like that shit we scrape outta the freezers when we try to defrost them then... That's about as close as I've come to seeing snow anyway.


Mick

Well kind of... That's more like ice ...

Snow tends to pile up like a BIG snow cone...

Snow cone: This article is about the food snow cone.

Snow cone with cherry syrupSnow cones or snow balls are a variation of the shaved ice dessert commonly served throughout North America in paper cones or styrofoam cups.[1] The dessert consists of ice shavings that are topped with flavored sugar syrup.

Depending on the region of the continent, sometimes there are differentiation made between "snowball" and "snow cone", with the former made of finely shaved ice ("like soft fresh snow") and the latter coarser and more granular ("crunchy").

History

SnowballIndustrial Revolution

This snowball culture dried up over time, but in the 1850s the American Industrial Revolution made ice commercially available. Ice houses in New York would commonly sell ice to places like Florida. To transport the ice to Florida, the ice houses would send a wagon with a huge block of ice south. The route to Florida would pass right though Baltimore, MD. In Baltimore, children would run up to the wagon and ask for a small scraping of ice. Before long, mothers started to make flavoring in anticipation of their child receiving some ice. The first flavor these moms made was a current Baltimore favorite: egg custard. Egg custard was an easy flavor to make as all that was in it was eggs, vanilla and sugar.[2]

Theaters

By the 1870s, the snowball's popularity had risen to the degree that in the warm summer months, theaters would sell snowballs to keep their patrons cool. Because of this association with the theater, snowballs were thought of as an upper-class commodity. Signs in theaters instructing patrons to finish their snowballs before coming in to the second act are the earliest tangible evidence of snowballs. In the theaters in Baltimore during the time hand shavers were used to shave the ice. Around the city, snowballs were served on newspaper, but in the classy theaters, butchers' boats were used. In the 1890s, many people started to invent easier ways for snowballs to be made. In that decade, six different patents for electric ice shavers were filed.

Great Depression and World War II

During the Great Depression and World War II, snowballs made the leap from a Baltimore-confined treat to national treasure. As snowballs were so cheap, it was one of the few treats that people could afford. This inexpensiveness earned snowballs the nicknames 'Hard Times Sundae', and 'Penny Sundae'. People in need of a job would sell snowballs as it required little overhead. This nationwide adoration was furthered during World War II. In the war, all available ice cream was sent to soldiers, creating a need for an icy treat. This newfound lack of competition helped snowballs became popular across the country. This depression-fueled nationwide appeal was the height of the great snowballs popularity, and snowball culture quickly receded to Baltimore, the Jersey Shore and Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Hawaii.[3]

Similar confections

In Hawaii, "shave ice" is similar to snowballs, and is sold in cone-shaped paper cups. "Rainbow," a popular flavor, consists of three different colors of syrup chosen usually for their color rather than their taste compatibility. Commonly, a scoop of vanilla ice cream or sweetened azuki beans is first added to the bottom of the cup, and is capped with condensed milk.[4]

The dessert ice kachang served in Malaysia and Singapore is another form of shaved ice. Ice kachang originally was served with red beans but now includes various fruits and other sweet toppings.

In Japan they are known as kakigori and in India it is called a "gola" and usually served on popsickle sticks.

Originally Posted by aircoder

Lousy shave this morning due to my own stupidity but wrap the day up with a nice Bowl of GH brown twist in a Sav... Can't will em all but you can always count on a excellent relaxing bowl.

Sorry about the shave... But at least your day ended well...

Good morning friends.
This is a Vauen-pipe of the year 2002.

Commonwealth Mixture in my Comoy's Rhodesian - trying to smoke out the ghost of an aromatic over the next few day while I await a package with some Nightcap and Irish Flake. (Bad cell phone pic - all that I can muster after "rearranging" the house and hiding my camera). Happy smokes.

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

Pipe: WBW Cob Nosewarmer

Tobacco: Lane 1Q

Lighter: Zippo Operation Iraqi Freedom

Tamper/Pick: Horse Shoe Nail

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You have very cool lighter. Any better pics of it?

Originally Posted by Sailor

You have very cool lighter. Any better pics of it?

Not the best... Cell phone pic's... I got the tan zippo before I went over...

The silver one I bought at a PX in Baghdad...

would love it if i could find my first duty station zippo, may have to go to bradford one summer for the zippo swap meet and see if i can find it.

Originally Posted by wvloony

would love it if i could find my first duty station zippo, may have to go to bradford one summer for the zippo swap meet and see if i can find it.

When I was active duty I had a Camo Zippo that was by far my favorite one... It ended up missing out of my room one day... I think I know who had/has it... But maybe karma has had it's way...

I normally post a evening pipe, but this morning was a special birthday morning pipe with a great cup of hazelnut coffee so here goes.

My favorite Virginia Germain's Brown Flake, in my favorite Sav..

Happy birthday, aircoder!