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I have never seen plain dry ice for sale anywhere, though I have not gone looking too hard. I have seen the dumping some liquid CO2 into a special sock method t
by doloputer 3y ago
I have never seen plain dry ice for sale anywhere, though I have not gone looking too hard. I have seen the dumping some liquid CO2 into a special sock method though.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoI see it in supermarkets, often kept by the customer service counter. I've seen several places requiring ID to purchase dry-ice to avoid youngsters making soda-bottle bombs with it.
- HWR_14 3y agoIt's dangerous enough (suffocation, freezing) that there are plenty of reasons to require an age minimum. I don't think I've seen dry-ice in supermarkets since COVID started, but I haven't been looking much either.
- gmiller123456 3y agoNever disappeared around here. A lot of people rely on it to get their frozen stuff home without thawing out. So it's more available in rural places where people will have a long drive home.
- sneak 3y agoAhhh, that makes a ton more sense now. As one of the aforementioned soda-bottle-bomb-making-youngsters, I had no idea what people's legitimate uses for it were outside of party tricks.
- SkyPuncher 3y agoI buy it on camping trips. It has a major benefit of not getting your stuff wet as it melts.
- JohnFen 3y agoAll of the stores in my area require you to be 18 and produce ID to prove it, yes.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoThey often don’t advertise its availability but most grocery stores in the US do sell it. It’s very useful for road trips, power outages, and shipping perishable items.
- freedomben 3y agoThis kind of depends on the location/jurisdiction. The more rural you go, the more likely you can buy it. In a lot of big metro areas you'd be better advised to call ahead until you find a store that carries it.
- wincy 3y agoOn Halloween, my grandma (I’m in the US) would dress like a witch and use dry ice carbonate homemade root beer she’d dole out to kids from a giant bubbling black cauldron. I thought grandma was an actual witch for a while there.
- knodi123 3y agohomemade root beer is pretty difficult to do well!
- thfuran 3y agoI think all my local grocery stores sell it and so do at least some of the ice cream shops. None of them really advertise this; you just have to ask for it at the cashier.