Re: [Cz-L] Translation

[Plain text next time please]

I forgot to add before that Schaffer may mean to procure. I went to
School in Vienna in 1963 for a year so it could be an Austrian expression.
Alice

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 6:32 PM, A. Weiss <aweissgroup_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe Ziegeleis means block of ice a la brick.
>
> Alice Sobel Weiss
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Felix Garfunkel <felixg1_at_prodigy.net>wrote:
>
>> Hardy,
>>
>> I Remember in the thirties, we had an icebox, not a refrigerator.
>> Periodically, a man came to refill the icebox with a large block of ice.
>>
>> So, Ziegel is brick. Eiss is ice, and Schaffer is provider.
>> I am not sure this explanation works, but it occurred to me.
>>
>> Felix
>>

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