I love a nice tall glass of iced tea brimming with ice. Unfortunately my most recent glass full was not so delightful because of the ice--crescent shaped ice from my friend's fancy SubZero fridge. This particular shape of ice is ideally shaped to form a dam between the lip and the liquid. The ice is the perfect shape to get stuck up against the lip, making it a chore to have to suck the liquid from around the ice. There's no problem when the ice is vertically oriented in the glass, but again the shape of it seems to lend itself to a horizontal orientation.
I wonder if the people at SubZero know about this problem?
What was wrong with the original shape of ice cubes? Which design consultant came up with the idea that ice crescents were more pleasing? My guess is that it was someone who doesn't enjoy ice.
