IT may have been flaming June, but children from St Joseph’s RC School in Christchurch got pretty chilly when they took a tour of Coastline Produce’s premises at the town’s Airfield Way industrial estate.
The youngsters were asked to imagine being an ice cube or a bag of frozen peas and then invited into the company’s deep freeze.
The freezer, which is the size of an average house, runs at minus 25 degrees Centigrade and staff are only allowed in for 20 minutes at a time for fear of getting frostbite.
Teeth chattering, the children were only in for a few seconds before being asked whether they wanted to stay or go upstairs to eat some tasty fruit.
The answer was a no-brainer, as they say, and soon the children were tucking in.
Sales manager Craig Russell, who showed all 290 children at the school around the fruit and vegetable wholesaler’s premises during three days, said the freezer visit was the highlight of their tours.
“This was part of their Funky and Fruity Week,” he said.
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