Free Rita's Water Ice Giveaway Today (March 20)!

If you have a Rita's Water Ice location nearby, you can celebrate the arrival of Spring on them! They're giving away a free regular-size water ice to everyone who stops by today. Really!

If you read the press release, they expect to give away a half-million cups free today. The estimated 500,000 cups will require more than 5 million ounces of Rita's Italian Ice. That's the equivalent of 160 tons of snow or 106,667 snowballs. Melted it would be equivalent to 42,968 gallons of water -- enough to fill two backyard swimming pools or 859 bathtubs. It could be formed into 9,470,000 ice cubes, which, if laid end to end, would stretch more than twice the distance between Rita's hometown of Philadelphia and Baltimore, Md.

The job will require 2,600 Rita's employees and 15,000 hours to make the ice and fill the cups so you can see this is a big undertaking.

Rita's Italian ices are available in more than 25 different flavors -- from the traditional favorites like cherry and lemon to the new Cappuccino Cream Ice and the "Xtreme" flavors of Wild Black Cherry, Citrus Blast and Green Apple.

Rita's locations are throughout the East Coast and as far west as Ohio (sorry, all you Californians out there).

So get a nice welcome to Spring for free today! My Postmaster loves these ices, so he must be on cloud nine today...