The cool joy of a flavored ice on a summer day is like packed tasty snowflakes that melt in your mouth. It’s timeless, like sitting at the painted wrought-iron tables on the patio, backed by tropical-blue-painted block of the outdoor café a block from the beach at 2604 Long Beach Blvd. in Ship Bottom.

Eddin’s Ice Shack faces the Boulevard with a machine dispensing the other half of what makes this business valuable: ice by the bag.

The business is new this summer to Long Beach Island, but Eddin’s Ice has run its mainland location in the Mud City…