On Jul 5, 8:53*pm, aem > wrote:
> The dry ice thread made me wonder whether other people make any effort
> to provide cold storage when they do particular kinds of shopping.
> The fishmonger I go to is about a 20-minute drive from the house.
> When I'm going there I take a small artificial freezer block (blue
> ice?) out of the freezer and put it in a small Igloo-type cooler and
> put it in the car. *Then I use that to hold whatever I get at the
> fishmonger for the ride home. *I'm in the habit of putting the cooler
> and frozen block in the car when I go to the Asian maket, too, since I
> never know what I might find there. *Does anyone else do a similar
> thing? * *-aem

I go shopping riding a bicycle. At most I expect the frozen corn to
keep the food cool. For anything less than 30 degrees C and no ice
cream I just don't worry. I just make a point of being home in half
an hour or so.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada