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re: What do you say, Ice Chest or Cooler?

Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:17 pm to
Posted by High C
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:17 pm to
quote:

Chest


That you, Les?
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10520 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 3:37 pm to
50, North Alabama cooler. Never heard someone call it an ice chest in real life.
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:07 pm to
Posted by rpg37
Ocean Springs, MS
Member since Sep 2008
54542 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 4:14 pm to
I feel like I use these terms interchangeably. Really thinking about it, I know I used them both...I feel like I probably use "cooler" more often, though.
Posted by Septiger
Member since Nov 2020
3486 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:06 pm to
Chest
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
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Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:09 pm to
quote:

That’s what I have in my house, otherwise Ice Chest, my Northern wife (no pics) says cooler.



I think yankee migration into the sunbelt might have something to do with the rise of "cooler." Always said Ice chest growing up. And, of course, PawPaw called the thing in the kitchen an ice box.
Posted by 850SaintsGator
Pensacola
Member since Sep 2021
2360 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:11 pm to
I say both and i put in in a buggy/shopping cart too
Posted by Jfk Jr
Member since Jul 2022
591 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:12 pm to
Ice chest since Gran Torino.
Posted by Barbellthor
Columbia
Member since Aug 2015
11275 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:50 pm to
quote:

Millennials call it a cooler.

Well, I never! Chest, always.
Posted by GRTiger
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Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:54 pm to
I definitely say both, but thinking about it, I don't know the rationale. Maybe I call hard ones ice chests and soft ones coolers.
Posted by Chad504boy
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Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:54 pm to
Ice chest
Posted by Pandy Fackler
Member since Jun 2018
21114 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 5:54 pm to
I'm binary when it comes to this.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
84650 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:15 pm to
quote:

All my life I've been referring to it as an ice chest and so have all my friends and family. But lately I've been hearing many people call it a cooler


I noticed this same thing recently. Makes me more inclined to say ice chest.
Posted by ShaneTheMaster
Tampa, FL
Member since Nov 2009
3300 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:15 pm to
Only people who grew up in South Louisiana and maybe Mississippi call it an ice chest.
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
46425 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:17 pm to
So what do you call the container that holds five gallons of ice and water?
Posted by bakersman
Shreveport
Member since Apr 2011
6019 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:19 pm to
Ice chest. You plug a cooler into an outlet
Posted by OK Roughneck
The Sooner State
Member since Aug 2021
18429 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:25 pm to
Ice chest
Posted by weskarl
Space City
Member since Mar 2007
5789 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:38 pm to
quote:

What's an ice box though?


Ice box is the refrigerator/freezer, per my Grandma
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87290 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:54 pm to
Seems like a Louisiana/Miss thing

Growing up in GA I don't think I ever heard "ice chest", nor when in school in AL.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
14038 posts
Posted on 7/3/22 at 6:55 pm to
Ice chest
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