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History of slushie machines
The slushie was supposedly invented about 1800 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, Chile, about 23 miles east of the Tiano iron mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Stories persist that Jennings Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests.
Originally the slushie was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of rum completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon.
Later the Slushie evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled flute glass.
Consumption of the slushie drink remained localized until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C.
The slushie became increasingly popular and the slushie spread across North & South America rapidly, until Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933) slowed the momentum significantly. However, once alcohol was made legal again in the US, the cocncept of the slushie spread rapidly across north America, and the trend passed on around the globe. The slushie remained popular until the 1960’s, when other recreational drugs became popular.
Today the frozen slushie machine has become very popular. Slushie machines produce an instant frozen slushie. The slushie mix which is a mix of frest fruit and water is poured into the slushie machine and within an hour the machine produces frozen slushies without all the fuss of mixing each drink. It is this ease in making the drinks that has seen the wide spread use of slushie machines at all types of functions.