I can tell you here in Budapest, they don’t believe in air conditioner on buses or public transportation either. It’s been downright miserable, and extra smelly this week with the heat!
You order water at a restaurant and it's brought out lukewarm and no ice.
Same with if you order a Coke at a restaurant. They bring it out along with a cup with no ice.
And I've bought about a dozen Cokes at mini marts and their refrigerators don't keep the drinks very cold.
This isn't true for "Europe" at all. Its because you're in Eaatern Europe and they can't be bordered because you're an American tourist. Ice with your drink is standard
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In Spain they usually ask if you want it room temperature or cold.
Im a Brit and have been to Spain, France, Cyprus, Turkey, Italy, Andorra and I've never been served anything but cold beer and have also always been asked if I want ice in my drink. The only. place I'd say no to that 100% of the time is Turkey as I dont want to sh1t myself in the pool the next day.
12 oz of ice is more expensive than 12 oz of water + syrup (which is strengthened in fountain machines to compensate for the ice anyways).
The reason they put ice in your drink is so it stays cold. An unbelievable scientific discovery by American inventor Frederic Tudor
That makes no sense. If you drink it right away it doesn't need to stay cold if it was in a refrigerator. And it it sits for a while the ice will melt and you will have a room temperature diluted drink.
Shockingly, there's an example between your two extremes. Where you don't drink it instantly, but drink it over say 15-20 min. The ice keeps the beverage cold and doesn't melt to such a degree that its "a room temperature diluted drink."
Speaking of ac., why is it that in the US, Southern states especially, ac is set to frigid in every place you go, stores, malls etc? Its ridiculously cold and seems a complete waste of money. They could easily raise the temp 10 degrees and people would be just fine.
Case study on you and your posts over years says you are a very insecure man, who clings to set ideas of what I’d right or wrong based on your limited experience and then attacks at varying degrees anything that doesn’t agree with your view.
Sometimes you are passive and sometimes you are aggressive with your attack but are always on the lookout for things different then your view and you use Letsrun as your platform to try and feel better about yourself by tearing down or drawing into question anything different.
It is rather sad to see. I wish you happiness in life and hope you find true peace, neither of which will come from constant critiquing, questioning and insulting on a message board.
You order water at a restaurant and it's brought out lukewarm and no ice.
Same with if you order a Coke at a restaurant. They bring it out along with a cup with no ice.
And I've bought about a dozen Cokes at mini marts and their refrigerators don't keep the drinks very cold.
Quality control. Germany has very strict laws to maintain very high quality beer. To add ice to it would ruin it.
My friends stationed in Germany in the 70s used to comment on the inability to get ice in your drinks
There are also laws that make sure that your 0.4 liter Coca Cola/ beer is purred in a 0.4 liter glass with a mark on it. Putting ice in that would be against the law and considered cheating in Germany.
Also note that there are no free refills in Restaurants, no free water and the restaurants make their money with drinks.
+1 for the guy who mentioned ice keeping a drink cold if it's consumed over a period of time.
Also, ice super-cools a sipped beverage just before it enters your mouth, the height of luxury.
Europeans: Is it true that you aren't taught the imperial system of measurement because it's too difficult for you to understand? Also, FYI nobody puts ice in beer.
You order water at a restaurant and it's brought out lukewarm and no ice.
Same with if you order a Coke at a restaurant. They bring it out along with a cup with no ice.
And I've bought about a dozen Cokes at mini marts and their refrigerators don't keep the drinks very cold.
New Zealand doesn't know what ice water is. They'll stare at you like you have three eyes. Might have something to do with the cost to refrigerate there.