Ice - Help please Gilles

[jpchenet]

As many of us are going to be looking for an ice suply at Le Mans, I was wondering if someone local (Gilles perhaps) who has a freezer could help us out. A campsite I stayed on in Southern Brittany a couple of years ago had the novel idea of freezing three quarter full bottles of water. Place them stood upright in the freezer for half a day and they set nice and hard. You can then either use them as a large ice block or cut the plastic away and break the ice up over your beers.  

So, the question is, would anyone local have space in their freezer to be able to help us with this??  

[Gilles]

Nice idea, but I won't have neough room available in my freezer to provide all of you ice.

I gonna try to do my best however as I've got several fridges...
... call me when you'll need ice, the delivery could not be so fast as I won't be able to leave my job at every time.

[mstreet]

Gilles, do any local supermarche sell bags of ice...?

[TonyT]

We got some in a garage last year on the way into town.

[jpchenet]

We got solid blocks of ice in the Super U two years ago but they were something like £2 a block and not that big!!

[Chrisgr31]

How much are freezers in France?  The other alternative is we club together, buy Gilles a freezer, he can then freeze the ice, or refreeze our ice packs, and at the end of the weekend throw the freezer awway, or sell it!

Bearing in mind how many people have headed down there already might be best left to next year!

The other alternative is for Gilles to sell the ice from the stand he is manning.  One way of attracting potential purchasers!

[jpchenet]

Found a local company today called Just Ice. They are teh ones who provide the ice selling freezers to petrol stations etc here in the UK.

I aksed them about taking a chiller unit iwth ice down to Le Mans but was told that they have 40 Tonnes of ice to supply to Ascot next week so couldn't do it  

Next year though........watch this space!!

[Kpy]

You may be amused to know that I approached the Marketing Department of the ACO last year, asking for a concession to sell ice. I was quite happy to drive around all the campsites selling the stuff off a refrigerated van.

The stroppy cow in charge told me there was no call for it!

I'm afraid I was rude enough to her to make it impossible for me to go back there. Gave me great saisfaction all the same.

[president]

the reason the ACO don't want anyone selling ice, is so you go to the village/circuit and buy their expensive low alcahol COLD beer!
you must learn to take your own, we have over 100litres frozen, depart thursday and it's still frozen on sunday. want to know how? then you will have to bribe us!

[jpchenet]

And what would it take to bribe you?? I've already posted you some CA Window Stickers today  

[president]

I can't give away our secrets to full members only junior members until I become one!

[jpchenet]

I'd better slow down then otherwise I'll be a senior member by then  

[nopanic - neil]

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Last year the guys next to us took a small freezer, which they ran off a small generator. So they use to run it for a few hours & chill the beers - great system.

And if you left the beer in the freezer to long , then you got a beer slush puppy.
                                     

[Chrisgr31]

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And if you left the beer in the freezer to long , then you got a beer slush puppy.
                                     

I had one of those from my gas fridge when I went to Hovercraft racing in Southampton.  The problem was getting the beer slush puppy out of the bottle!

[Gilles]

I really don't know if my boss will be happy I sell ice on his stand !!!! I'm here to sell magazines not ice !!!

KPy, do you really need ACO agreement to sell ice ? Just try to be discret!!! You're really too honest !!!!  

Tomorrow, I gonna book maybe 6 to 10 MB pitch, as a global CA booking seems being impossible to satisfy. If I obtain only 2 or 3 I gonna run CA hospitality with ice factory. People from other campsittes will just have to walk !!!!!

But for 2003, I can produce some ice, but I hardly can't deliver it !!! And I can't wait at home for your visit. I only will try to have fresh bottles of champagne.

Kpy you gonna have a freezer in your romm and an extra one on an other room if yuou need it, but ice delivery is not a job for an official journalist   !!!!