Ken Jennings has a podcast. It's excellent. (PS: Ken is hilarious. PPS: Ken says some pretty dumb stuff in the episode I'm about to mention. It's still exce

Ken Jennings has a podcast. It's excellent. (PS: Ken is hilarious. PPS: Ken says some pretty dumb stuff in the episode I'm about to mention. It's still excellent—both the podcast and the episode.) Ken's cohost brought to the show in the most recent episode, Entry 615.PS14717 of the Omnibus, the topic of the ice trade. In it they mention cold beer originally being, like many fruits, a seasonal thing. (I was sure when I saw the topic that this episode is what motivated the submission. Guess not.) On the other hand, Meredith Burgess did a WWII-era training film for US troops called Welcome to Britain where part of it is spent explaining how to behave in a British pub. Notable for his admonishing to the viewer that, "The beer isn't cold in England. No, they don't like it cold—and they haven't any ice, so if you like beer, you better like it warm."