Is that stuff legal?

One of the vivid childhood memories we have from Halloween is the black cauldron filled with dry ice to give kids the feeling there was something spooky brewing in the pot. However somewhere along the line, between the Reagan Administration and Cato Cailin’s rise to fame, dry ice became nonexistent in the U.S.

Here in China, however, dry ice hasn’t lost its luster. We’re not sure of the safety of its prevalence, but it sure is handy. Have a bag a frozen crustaceans you need to transport? … Dry ice to the rescue. Have a long drive home but don’t want to eat your ice cream until you’re in the comfort of your Lazy Boy? No problem … all ice cream shops keep dry ice on-hand and guarantee the icy goodness of your frozen treat for up to 1.5 hours.

Of course it could make for an embarrassing encounter at the office:

“Whoa Bill, how did you scald your hand? Barbeque accident? Lawnmower debacle? Power tool mishap?”

“Nope, just fumbled the Rocky Road.”