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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Friday, August 27th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird. Today, the history of and science behind the icy.

Plus, Glenn Fidditch is now powering their delivery trucks with spent whiskey and some tips on cleaning your earbuds. Because, come on, how long has it been since you've actually done that?

Here are some cool things from the news today.

As summer rounds out, let's cool down with the story of what was once hocked as the coolest drink in town.

I'm talking about the icy.

David Buck recently shared a brief history of the frozen carbonated beverage over at tedium

and shared a few things that I definitely wasn't expecting.

So there are three different stories about how the icy began, but they all

happened under the tutelage of Omar Nedlick while he was running a dairy queen in Coffeyville, Kansas.

Nedlick had grown up in Kansas, and after returning from serving in World War II, owned an

ice cream parlor of his own for a while and dabbled in

running hotels before ending up buying a Dairy Queen franchise location. Now here is where

the stories differ. Either Nedlick didn't have a soda fountain and therefore put bottled soda in the

freezer to keep it cool and sold it partially frozen, something that his customers

loved because the partial freezing created some kind of chemical change that led to a pleasing,

slushy consistency. The other version of the story is that Nedlick did have a soda fountain,

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