[RikaStrom]

This was put into the “ice box” to keep food cool.

I grew up calling the refrigerator an "ice box". Got it from my Grandparents. To this day, I'll still call it an "ice box". I had to explain to my 20 year old admin what an ice box was, and what the correlation meant. :-)

Grandpa taught us SOS, although we'd put it over rice instead of bread. Did that a lot with liver nips in broth, as well.

[GeronL]

We still call it that in this family too.

[ex-snook]

“I grew up calling the refrigerator an “ice box””

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I grew up in NYC calling it an ice box because there were no refrigerators! The iceman would carry a piece of ice up our stairs [sometimes 1 floor, sometimes 4] I think he was paid 25 cents for it. In the winter he would carry up some coal. We slept next to the stove. Stuff to be kept cold was outside on the window sill, the milk would push the cream out the top of the bottle. Now we call it the fridge. Hey it even gives us cubes. Who would have thunk it?

[bgill]

I call it an ice box sometimes, too.

I had an older boss once who didn’t know what a cistern was. Bless his heart, he was from Detroit or somewhere. I was talking about water in the cistern and he kept asking me what the sister had to do with the water. Sister? Say what?!? No, a cistern!

My next boss was middle eastern who hated women (the feeling was mutual). Someone had given me some watermelons so I tried to give him one as a peace offering. He jumped back like it was a snake and started hollering at me to get away from him. That was a pre-lesson to 9/11.