Slurpee Anyone?
From the time I was a sophomore in high school until the summer after I graduated, I worked at the Frosty Freeze in Boulder City, Nevada on the highway that went through town. There were other jobs that I had at the same time, but the Frosty Freeze was a fun job to have in the evenings. I usually closed up after eleven at night. The Frosty Freeze is where I first heard of flavored chipped ice as a drink. We would freeze a mixture of concentrated flavored drink. We used a Kool-Aid type powder with a lot of sugar. When it was frozen, we would bring it out of the freezer and begin to chip it up with a tool that had four metal-like spears coming out of a handle. Well, when I say we, I mean me. I was the one who had to chip all of the flavored ice in a five-gallon bucket, to be ready to dip out and served. I can remember getting a blister on the palm of my hand from chipping. I always hoped that no one would like it, and then they wouldn’t sell it any more, but everyone liked it; I ev...