A Frozen Christmas, Channel 4 - TV review: A surprisingly interesting look at the ice industry
Jan's ice cubes looked almost eerie in their perfection
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Your support makes all the difference.On Channel 4 crimes of an entirely different kind from And Then There None were being committed as Norwegian salesman Jan laid out his cunning plan in A Frozen Christmas, a surprisingly interesting look behind the scenes at the ice industry.
The horribly plausible Jan had basically trekked up to a Norwegian glacier, hacked off some ice with the permission of the Norwegian government and was now proposing to flog it to five-star hotels as the perfect accompaniment to bottles of rare single malt.
The head barman at the Savoy questioned his ethics bringing up global warming but Jan swiftly reassured him that Norway was an environmentally conscious nation before adding: “People are always willing to pay for an experience, why not give them the best ice in the world?”
It's true that Jan's ice cubes looked almost eerie in their perfection. I looked at them floating perfectly in their sea of £1,000 malt and thought humans really do ruin everything. We can't help ourselves.
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