Ice cream dealer

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An ice cream dealer in Berlin in 1957

The Eishändler sold water ice mainly to urban households, tradesmen (z. B. slaughterhouses) and catering. He obtained this natural ice and later also artificial ice produced in ice factories from ice cellars or ice houses that he possibly operated himself and had it delivered to his customers as quickly as possible in the morning by the servants in question, later also referred to in everyday language as ice cream men .

Until the 1960s , private households, small grocery stores and catering establishments purchased whole or divided poles (one pole was approx. 1 meter long and 15 × 15 cm in profile) once or several times a week, the estimated need delivered to the house for cooling the Groceries in freezers that were still in use at the time . With the mass production of refrigerators , ice cooling became uneconomical and the profession died out.

literature

• E. Nowák, CA Menzel, The construction of the ice cellar both in and above the ground and the storage of the ice in them together with an appendix: The fabrication of artificial ice , 5th edition. G. Knapp, publishing house, Leipzig 1883 (p. 78)