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The fancy ice is harvested from 100,000-year-old glaciers.
INFLUENCERS in Dubai are now able to sip posh cocktails with pieces of ice scooped from Arctic ancient glaciers and shipped 9,000 miles to UAE.
The 100,000-year-old ice is extracted from detached glaciers in the fjords of Greenland before being shipped to posh bars in Dubai to end up in ice-cold margaritas.
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Startup company Arctic Ice, based in the country’s capital Nuuk, harvests the ice – which is thought to be cleaner and according to the firm, it doesn’t melt easily – and exports it overseas.
A spokesperson for the company said: “The ice is sourced directly from the natural glaciers in the Arctic which have been in a frozen state for over 100,000 years.
“These parts of the ice sheets have not been in contact with any soils or contaminated by pollutants produced by human activities.
“This makes Arctic Ice the cleanest H20 on Earth.”
Using a specialised boat with a crane, they scour the fjords around the Nuuk in search of an uncontaminated form of ice that has never been in contact with the top or bottom of the glacier.
After identifying a suitable section, they extract the ice – compressed over millennia – before placing it in a plastic crate.
When the boat is full, they ship the crates to the capital to fill up a larger, refrigerated shipping container that then sails to Denmark.
The ice is loaded onto another ship before travelling to Dubai where it is sold by the distributor Natural Ice.
The ice then ends up in drinks sold in glitzy bars in the upmarket emirate.
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It is common for glacial ice to be used in drinks in Greenland and Arctic Ice hopes that it will become popular in the UAE too.
The company’s co-founder Malik V Rasmussen said there are no air bubbles in the ice, causing it to melt more slowly than normal ice.
The glacial water is also purer than the frozen mineral water typically used in bars in Dubai.
Despite launching in 2022, the company only recently shipped its first 20 metric tonnes of pure ice to Dubai.
Rasmussen said he hopes to introduce a new major revenue stream for Greenland, which still remains economically dependent on Denmark.
He said: “In Greenland, we make all our money from fish and from tourism.
“For a long time, I have wanted to find something else that we can profit from.”
He added: “Helping Greenland in its green transition is actually what I believe I was brought into this world to do.”
To help the environment, Arctic Ice said it plans to use carbon-neutral vessels for shipping in the near future.
The ice business echoes a gag in The Simpsons where supermarket owner Apu hires an expedition team to travel to the Arctic to gather bags of ice for his freezers.
The adventurer says: “You’ve got to start charging more than a dollar a bag. We lost four more men on this expedition.”
Apu replies: “If you can think of a better way to get ice, I’d like to hear it.”
Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/10065866/worlds-poshest-ice-harvested-ancient-glacier-dubai-influencers-cocktails/
WORD BANK
harvest /ˈhɑː.vɪst/ (v): thu hoạch
sip /sɪp/ [C1] (v): nhâm nhi
posh /pɒʃ/ (informal) [B2] (adj): sang trọng
scoop /skuːp/ (v): múc
ancient /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/ [B1] (adj): cổ xưa
glacier /ˈɡlæs.i.ər/ (n): sông băng
extract /ɪkˈstrækt/ [B2] (v): tách, chiết
detached /dɪˈtætʃt/ [C1] (adj): tách biệt
fjord /fjɔːd/ (n): vịnh hẹp
firm /fɜːm/ [B1] (n): công ty
export /ɪkˈspɔːt/ [B2] (v): xuất khẩu
spokesperson /ˈspəʊksˌpɜː.sən/ [C1] (n): người phát ngôn
state /steɪt/ [B2] (n): trạng thái
contaminate /kənˈtæm.ɪ.neɪt/ (v): gây ô nhiễm
pollutant /pəˈluː.tənt/ (n): chất gây ô nhiễm
specialised /ˈspeʃ.əl.aɪzd/ (adj): chuyên dụng
crane /kreɪn/ (n): cần cẩu
scour /skaʊər/ (v): lùng sục
identify /aɪˈden.tɪ.faɪ/ [B2] (v): xác định
compress /kəmˈpres/ (v): nén
millennia (plural of millennium) (n): thiên niên kỷ
crate /kreɪt/ (n): thùng
distributor /dɪˈstrɪb.jə.tər/ (n): nhà phân phối
glitzy /ˈɡlɪt.si/ (adj): hào nhoáng
emirate /ˈem.ɪ.rət/ (n): tiểu vương quốc Ả Rập
upmarket /ˌʌpˈmɑː.kɪt/ (adj): xa hoa, cao cấp
air bubble /ˈeə ˌbʌb.əl/ (n): bọt khí
mineral water /ˈmɪn.ər.əl ˌwɔː.tər/ [A2] (n): nước khoáng
revenue stream (n): nguồn doanh thu
remain /rɪˈmeɪn/ [B1] (v): duy trì
economically /ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kəl.i/ (adv): thuộc về kinh tế
be dependent on/upon sth /dɪˈpen.dənt/ [C1] (adj): phụ thuộc vào cái gì
transition /trænˈzɪʃ.ən/ [C2] (n): sự chuyển đổi
vessel /ˈves.əl/ (n): tàu/thuyền lớn
echo /ˈek·oʊ/ [C2] (v): gợi nhớ
gag /ɡæɡ/ (informal) (n): câu bông đùa
expedition /ˌek.spəˈdɪʃ.ən/ [B1] (n): sự thám hiểm
adventurer /ədˈven.tʃə.rər/ (n): nhà thám hiểm
charge /tʃɑːdʒ/ [B1] (v): tính phí
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