I Found Out Why Americans Are Obsessed With ICE - European Reacts
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We happen to like our drinks cold! It's rather awful to have drinks at room temperature with no ice 😩
The people that question our desire for ice are people that love to drink room temperature drinks, while sitting in sauna temperatures and drenched with sweat.
We like our beverages either hot or cold, not lukewarm. It’s really just that simple.
@@shawbros that sounds ISHY!😮
It's healthier to drink water at room temperature for your digestive system... but growing up drinking ice cold liquids I can't go back... it would be like Europeans drinking hot water, maybe it's the taste...
I happen to like drinks that you can actually taste, that taste good, and don't get watery if you don't chug them
Me, a Floridian: "There are civilizations without ice in everything?? Next youll tell me there are homes without air conditioning."
I grew up in Florida in a home without a.c. This is why I believe in global warming. I would die _dead_ if I tried that today.
I mean, it was hot. But it was bearable. It's not bearable now.
@@MelissaThompson432 Is the Global Warming part a joke? lol
@@xeldinn86 not if you can science. If you don't understand science, you might think it's funny. In which case, the joke's on you.
@@xeldinn86it’s a verifiable FACT. The JOKE is that some people are still too stupid to know that. I live in the southeast US. Yes, it’s real. Our leaves are already falling. Not because summer is over, but because of the number of heatwaves and practically no rain.
I'm in the US, and haven't had AC in over 8 years. I stopped counting. It's just to expensive to get fixed, and it's not life or death like having heat is. We have a wood burning stove for that, but we have a working furnace we try not to use often. If i get hot i wear less, and keep a spray bottle/fan close by. It's my PC I'm more worried about. 😅
I live in Arizona - Phoenix - the water is NEVER EVER cold from the faucet, it's warm. The water taste like a chemistry experiment. It is somewhat palatable when poured over ice. The sun is down and it's still 107 here in HELL. Yes - I have an ice machine.
In Florida you need ice to dull the flavor of the water.
I kid. Mostly.
Please move you make the state worst.
@@rcrawford42 Unless you live in Zephyr Hills.
@@rcrawford42 Never, ever drink from the water fountains in Disney World. You can taste the sulfur from the ground water.
Chemistry Experiment !!!!
Cracks me up!
We are obsessed with ice cubes because its 100 degrees here in the summer.
Only 100°? Dang, you got it easy.
Agreed.
@@darcyjorgensen5808 If it got much hotter I'd fill my pants with ice...lol
105 here today in central Texas.
Gurl I wish it was just 100 (tho today had a high of 74 so that's great, had to worry abt tornadoes last night but still)
I've never heard of anyone who sold their fridge because they thought it was too big and luxurious.
Currently trying to get my landlord to replace my fridge that isn't working properly. I'd like a much smaller one. The big one takes up too much space, uses too much energy. Huge fridges are a big reason why the average family throws away so much food. Goes bad before it gets eaten.
Even as a single person. I want to store an ample amount of food to not have to frequent the store as often and I want my food to not be crowded. Give me a big fridge. I’ll take a second for just drinks and condiments if I could.
@@jakeylakey619yeah as long as you buy things that don't go bad often a big fridge is awesome and more freezer space is always good but I do find it funny he said he sold it cause it was to big but got what's in my mind a borderline novelty fridge. You couldn't even put cereal up there to keep away from a kid.
it was too big for the doorway
I'm an American expat living in Scotland for the last 23 years. I absolutely have one of those machines and I love it!
is it actually hard to get ice when you want it? Would a restaraunt in Scotland not serve me a glass of ice if I asked for it?
@@guysmiley4830 yes they will give you ice. TBH they will almost always give you ice in a drink these days, although sometimes they will ask if you want ice in it.
What made you decide to move to Scotland? I'm Mexican American in California and single in my 40's and have had this crazy idea of just moving to a nice country that respect Americans and never look back. Any advice?
@@mvasqu762 my spouse is Scottish and back then it was way easier to get a permanent resident visa to live here. These days, not so much.
I absolutely LOVE my ice maker!!! In SW Fl it's so dam hot & humid every day - even in spring & fall. We have a 3 or 4 week window of time where we can wear long sleeve shirts. Occasionally, I need a fleece hoodie. Not complaining, but as u comfortable as really cold weather is, hot weather (especially when it's humid) will suck the life out of you fast.
A cold drink on a hot day is necessary to keep going.
Most Americans have either an ice making machine built into their fridge or just freeze ice in their freezer in cube trays.
The ice sold at gas stations is mainly used to fill coolers.
Yes to get the drinks ICE cold!!!
Filling coolers for a tailgate or picnic, stocking up for a party, or keeping a dead body below room temperature.
@@blaqbastion1501 not just for drinks. People also put food in coolers so it doesn't go bad quickly.
The water used to make that ice sold everywhere is triple-filtered which means it's DELICIOUS and also safe to drink. If you use it in a way that it doesn't get contaminated by what you're cooling down, it does double-duty. Good to know if you're RVing or camping.
party ice!
Our so-called "obsession" with ice cubes isn't really true, but rather we like our beverages cold, as this makes the drink more refreshing. Really good on a hot day.
Or a cold day. I use ice year round as room temperature drinks are not good in summer or winter.
Beyond even that, my wife among other people I know loves to eat crushed ice
Spot on!
It doesn't seem like an obsession to us, because we grew up with ice-cold drinks. But this is a video of a guy from a colder climate (Eastern Europe or Russia I assume), commenting on a video made by an English guy (another cold climate). If we lived in a place that was usually cold, ice would seem like an unnecessary extravagance. Because so much of the USA is hot, we have made ice production and availability convenient.
You'd think.
As an American who lives in California, Ice cubes are vital to survive the heat of our summers. Never realized we were obsessed with ice cubes but I am ok with it. Nothing better than an ice cold drink on a hot summer evening.
I'm in Minnesota it's September and it's 80°F. I like cold drinks. I love my air conditioner.
till the asshole newsome some how make those illegal to like almost everything else.
My mother’s family for generations back were ice harvesters. Cut it out of lakes in winter, burry it underground pack with sawdust for insulation, sell it door to door in summer just like morning milk delivery. We still have family heirlooms of long specialized ice saws and picks. My mother (age 70) to this day must have ice in every drink, yes even in below freezing weather while outdoors.
Nothing like putting a cup on the window sill in winter to wake up to in the middle of the night for a chilled drink with shards of fine ice.
We also like ice cubes because it helps mask the flavor of water. All water has a distinct flavor to it due to dissolved minerals and whatnot, so water from one city will taste different from water from another. The temperature of water affects how easily those dissolved things are detected by tastebuds - hotter makes it stronger, colder makes it weaker. It’s why San Francisco sourdough bread will always be distinctly different than anywhere else, for example.
San Fran sourdough has extra meth in it.
I remember being in France at a dinner in Paris and the bartender got upset with me asking for more ice in my drink.."we do not understand your fascination with ice." So let me just say..there is no fascination. We prefer our drinks cold. A room temperature rum and coke or any drink for that matter might start a fight.
I don't understand the hostility against ice. You don't want ice? You want ice? Whatever. Who cares? Outside of that French stereotype, I had a similar discussion in Ireland about ice in whiskey... I've always been a "one cube" guy, and I let it melt. People there thought I was crazy and insisted it somehow "ruined" the drink. I once got in a conversation with an older Russian couple in Latvia and when they heard my accent the first thing they asked me about was ice, and if I really put ice in my drinks! Mexicans seem to like ice even more than American, though. For example, they'll mostly drink even expensive scotch completely "on the rocks" where it's mostly ice. It really waters it down and makes for an easy to sip, always cold, drink.
It was Paris; they love to make a point of being rude. Anyone who has visited has stories, whether they spoke French or not. French people in the countryside seem more personable.
@@andromedaspark2241I don't understand why people don't just give the attitude right back to them. If there's ever a time to be an outspoken American.. that's the time!
They don't seem to have any interest in happy customers in France; give people what they want and keep your rude comments to yourself. Why pick a fight with a customer? That's a thing Americans don't get; why drive away a paying customer over a personal preference? Foolish.
@@andromedaspark2241
I have never been to France, but I have bought some stuff from France though, through eBay.
That was the only time I ever did any business with a person living in France, and he fit the French stereotype to a **T**. He was the definition of rude.
WAIT! Didn't EVERYONE(worldwide) cut ice during Winter and store them in "Ice Houses" to be used during summer?
All the old homesteads where I grew up had an "Ice House" built in the 1800's with 2 foot thick walls filled with sawdust!!
During the Winter, ice blocks were cut with timber cutting saws and stored inside.
Then take the blocks one at a time (maybe once a week) to the "icebox"(pre-refrigerator) to keep food from spoiling.
Yes - I thought it was normal, too (prior to electricity/ refrigeration)
I do, in fact, still use ice in the winter. I can't explain it. My brain just thinks drinks must have ice
I mean, it's not like it's super cold inside the house too (hopefully) so yeah ice just makes sense if you're used to cold drinks :p
Yep, same!
Same! Especially water and Coke. They need to be ice cold, or I'm just not interested. Even my cat insists on ice in her water, or she won't drink it. So, like a sucker, I do it for her. I mean... I get the obsession
Doesn't everybody? 🤔
@@ljb8157 For people who drink diet soda, temperature is even more important. The cold dulls the taste of artificial sweeteners. To me, an icy cold Diet Coke is the most refreshing drink in the world, but a warm Diet Coke is undrinkable.
We were stationed in Germany during a post shut down. I literally got fussed out by a German waitress as "spoiled" for asking for ice. Then told we were, well she didn't say nuts but close to it, for having AC on the fort and in the quarters. A few years later after we were back in the States there was a heat wave in Europe and in Chicago. There were massive deaths in Europe and some deaths in Chicago. You can imagine why there were more in Europe. We see AC as sometimes life and death given our usual weather in places. They don't get that weather all of the time. And some of our drinks can spoil without ice, lemonade with sugar.
I think in Germany the use of loads of electricity for ice cubes and air conditioning is definitely an issue!
@@nilcarborundum7001perhaps if they didn't naively ban nuclear power plants resulting in them burning more coal, it wouldn't be as big of an issue
I was at a restaurant in Ireland when I asked the server for some ice for my soda. I got a cube of ice. Just one cube.
@@awesomedavid2012 you know, out of left field but your right. Though its not like America (where I live) has the perfect power situation, Texas is a good example of abhorrent infrastructure and a lot of people in America also suffer from nuclear paranoia. Its a global work in progress.
lemonade spoiling?? sir where on earth did you get the idea that mixing two food preservatives would create an easily spoiled product?
So for another point, when I was training as a bartender they taught "cocktails are made with a lot of ice because the cold helps the tongue ignore impurities and makes the drink taste better."
We use ice in winter because cold drinks are refreshing. Ice makes all drinks better.
Well, and many of our drinks are sweet, and when they're cold the sweetness isn't as apparent.
....Except for beer!
Not all drinks... I like my hot chocolate hot
@@filetknife59 I don't drink alcohol so I would not know.
@@bedinor Cold chocolate drinks can be pretty good.
It's currently 99° (37° Celsius) and it's 8:30 p.m. My refrigerator does have an ice maker which is convenient
One thing forgotten by Europeans is how big the US is, and its incredible network of rivers. This allows transport of food over great distances. Ice helped preserve that food.
We don't use ice to transport nor don't we need it, not even over great distances. We use refrigerated trucks/containers or even freezing compartments in trucks/ships. That's how modern countries do it.
@renefrijhoff2484 historically, before modern refrigeration my guy.
@@benzlover55 Where exactly says it historically? Don't bother to answer, NOWHERE. Yes I know historically. I can even go further. The first useable cooled application was invented in 1869 by Charles Tellier and the first refrigerator was invented in 1922 by Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters and the alternative version was invented by Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard in 1926 and patented in the U.S. in 1930. The modern refrigerator was introduced first in The Netherlands and Belgium in 1933.
@renefrijhoff2484 ok man. Be as hostile as you want. The US used literal blocks of ice in things called ice boxes for a long time. Refrigerators didn't become commonplace for a pretty long time, not until the late 20s early 30s.
@@benzlover55 In fact, up until the 80s, depending on what part of the country you lived in, the home fridge was still called "The Ice Box"
In fact, some sitcoms through out the 50s to 80s, when a character would mention the fridge for whatever reason, they would say "Ice Box"
My dad was an Australian dairy farmer. Especially in summer, at the end of a hard day's work (dairy farming families worldwide will get that joke) he would go to the freezer, take out a round aluminium cake tin partly filled with ice, smash it up with a tack hammer, add water to the tin and proceed to drink directly from it, munching some of the ice as he went. In more genteel fashion, as if to distance herself from Dad's practice, my mum would sit down to read or write with a whisky glass filled with unchilled water and a single ice cube. In both cases, for different reasons, the ice was indispensable.
In the summer it's a fricking blessing when it's around 100 degrees and muggy. The contrast is great!
It's why many of us older people in America refer to a refrigerator as the "Ice Box". We learned that word from our grandparents and carried it forward. They used to literally be big cabinets which held ice delivered weekly to keep food cold.
I still call what others know as a deep freezer an ice chest.
Well, my parents called it the ice box. I'm 47 years old, so I don't think I'm old.
Yup. My town has a building that's still got all the old signage on it from back when it was an ice delivery company. Literally like the milk man coming round with the glass bottles, except they'd come by with a bunch of ice and fill up your ice box for you
My grandfather used to deliver ice to houses.
Ice box sounds like something a boomer would say. Something you'd hear in the 50s 😂 I'm 34
Eating ice cream while wrapped in a blanket with your wife or husband during the winter cold ( inside your home of course) is pure bliss..
YES 🙌🏽 🥰
We own an appliance repair company in Florida. Standalone single door fridges are not the norm. (Those are usually seen in high end kitchens or for commercial use.) Side by side, top mount freezers, and French door are the most common. I have had customers have a meltdown (pun intended) over having to wait a week for an ice maker repair. I know it is not common in other countries but here having a second back up fridge in the garage, basement or back porch is very common. We actually have three refrigerators, and two standalone freezers. Each fridge has an ice maker, and we have countertop ice makers in our campers. The ones that make the soft round crunchy ice balls are amazing! FYI, if you have ever read the Little House books you can learn about ice harvesting in the book Farmer Boy. As a native-born Floridian, there are three things I cannot live without, air conditioning, fans, and ice.
“soft round crunchy ice balls” - here in central texas, we call that The Good Ice.
i remember we used to go to the Sonic drive thru for drinks even if we’d been somewhere else for food, because they were pretty much the only ones with The Good Ice. now you can buy it in bags. my sister-in-law has a machine that makes The Good Ice in her kitchen and we are unashamedly so jealous.
I'm in Texas, it is 9:11 am and the temperature is 83°F, the high today is 101°F and the humidity makes it feel like you are stepping into soup.
Although some restaurants do fill the cup with ice to skimp on how much they are giving you to drink, most refills are free.
Edit, my grandfather used to tell me about the ice harvesting. When he was born he was very sick and lactose intolerant. They had to get a fridgid air to hold his medicine and goat milk. You were delivered one large block of ice that went into the fridge to keep things cool. He was born in 1937.
106F right now at 6PM here in San Antonio. All window shades are down and my refrigerator cannot make ice fast enough. I will buy 7lb bags from HEB.
@DarkMatterBurrito "feels like" 114. I've been lucky this August hasn't been as hot as it could be. I'm north if Houston right now.
@@ketami2 Absolutely. We had a LOT of cloudy days, even if it did not rain, that keep that Texas sun at bay. This summer has honestly been rather mild here because of it.
@@DarkMatterBurritoFYI Sonic sells bags of that good ice.
My mother talks about the Ice man 😂
That's why Southerners refer to their refrigerators as "iceboxes." It was common for ice to be shipped down into the South. We also love shaved ice for snowballs during the summer. I love having an icemaker in my fridge! As we put it down here in south Louisiana, summer is 90 days in the 90s!! Humidity is usually 70-80% so it's miserably, dangerously hot! Ice is a blessing during these heatwaves!
I have heard older southerners call it that but those are sadly all deceased now. Nobody calls it an icebox anymore in Mississippi.
@@Jennifer-pb9nd Same here. I always heard elders use that term when I was a kid.
I remember the show Lassie had an actual ice box that they would show get the ice delivery and place the big block in there. My dad would always call it that, more as a joke, but I decided to keep it up to be goofy with my own kids, not to forget that whole time period.
Iceboxes are an older predecessor to the refrigerator, which used large blocks of ice in order to keep food cold (and thus preserved). Eventually they were able to reproduce the effect using electricity to power the process (creating the modern refrigerator), but in some places the older term "icebox" stuck around.
Yes - The same in New England where I am from. You can tell a person "of a certain age." You always must subtract 20 years from the current date if you are dealing with us from Maine. I have friends whose parents used to say "icebox." They are gone now. But, I have a friend who still uses the term, "Frigidaire," which was a brand name from the 1950s/60s. Of course, these days, it's just a refrigerator.
We have ice makers in our freezers that automatically make ice so there is always a constant supply of ice cubes
That's only when the ice maker works right. My sister -in-law's refrigerator doesn't make them right or enough to keep up with demand. So she has a backup ice maker.
My refrigerator has 2 ice makers. One in the door for dispensing, and one above the freezer drawer (below the refrigerator) for scooping. I love my ice, lol!
@@anitahall2618 Or you have an obsession with ice that makes even Americans look at you like you are odd. My dad needs the glass packed with as much ice as physically possible before he adds any liquid. If he refills the drink he has to top off the ice before hand.
Not all Americans. I still use ice cube trays. I bought a fridge without an ice maker, because it's one less thing that can break.
@@anitahall2618 Bet it’s a Samsung side by side…. 100% of the people I know who own one have unworking ice makers. There’s a plethora of You Tube vids on how to fix them. So far, none have worked. Thinking about trying a bigger hammer….
We recently went looking for a new refrigerator. I thought an ice maker was a unnecessary frivolity. But it turned out the unit we wanted was only available with an ice maker and water dispenser in the door… so… what the heck. I gotta say, once you have this convenience, you never want to live without it
Andre, your open mindedness is truly wholesome and lovely ❤
BS
Thank you so much for always finding a way to speak positively about America. Instead of saying anything about how crazy Americans are about their refrigerators, you said "the fridge culture is quite ahead in America" and I really appreciate your positivity about my home!
And thank you for putting a negative spin on a compliment by insulting Americans while complementing him
yes i put ice in my drinks even in winter. it makes my drinks more refreshing. it also dilutes the overly sugary soda just a little bit as it melts, making it a little less sugary.
I want ice in most of my drinks summer or winter. I also use the ice to dilute my drinks for various reasons. The drink is overly sugary, thick or syrupy. I want my drink to be light and refreshing especially during the summer.
My grandparents had to go to the lake in winter and cut ice blocks for their ice house. Before refrigeration, that's what we did. And half of the USA is desert or hot tropical swamp. It is hot as h-ll over here.
Ice not only makes your drink colder, but it keeps it colder for as long as the ice is there and not melting. I keep drinks in the fridge, but if I don’t put ice in them then they will turn warm after a little bit, especially when it’s really hot out.
Best thing about Ice and Water is the more it melts the more drink you have!
We have two doors, one for the refrigerator and one for the freezer. However, they aren't always side by side. Sometimes the freezer is stationed at the top and the refrigerator at the bottom. I have seen even drawer freezers underneath the fridge
That's what my brother's is, drawer freezer and both doors are the fridge.
That's what we have. We have double fridge doors, but a freezer drawer. I hate the freezer drawer though, feels like there's not enough room. We only got the one we did because the space for the fridge in our house was like one or two inches too small for the big fridge we had in our old place aaand we didn't feel like knocking down a whole wall. 😂
@@LadyBeyondTheWall I have the same issue, got a small chest freezer to more than double my frozen storage. Now I wish I could turn the bottom freezer draw into refrigerated space, getting cramped with enough food for a family of 6.
I sold appliances for 10 years, French door fridges are pretty much the thing. Samsung has several models you can customize the look and size. Yes, Americans love technology too.
Drawer freezers are actually more efficient due to not letting all their cold air spill out whenever they're opened.
The easiest explanation for squareception in America is: City Planning.
Grids are the most economical and simple form of planning. It's easier to divide a larger square into smaller squares in the future if needed than odd shapes and circles.
My question is how do Europeans not comprehend the use of ice? It keeps cold drinks colder, longer. Cold drinks are more refreshing, even if its not hot out. It's pretty simple.
Our refrigerator has a ice maker and is dispensed on the front door. Can choose regular or crushed. Americans love ice.
I'm one of those that likes a little Coke on my ice. And I like the Coke better when the ice melts a bit and dilutes it.
So true
We sure do!❤
"Americans arnt living in the past" fixed that for you.
Crushed ice and pellet ice are the best@european-reacts
0:14 Heck yeah! An ice maker is awsome. We have a small freezer and the ice maker broke. So' we got an ice maker! Best $70 bucks ever.
I bought one for myself for my birthday my kids and grandkids won't leave Ice in it for me
Y'all know theres a small plastic mold with 4 to 8 to even sometimes 12 separate cells that you can fill up with water and place it in your freezer and it makes ice after an hour or so. It's only a few dollars at any big box store. Just an f.y.i
2:13 it is simply a mini freezer that automatically pops out the frozen ice cubes from the freezing tray and into a chamber. Most American Refrigerators have one built in.
I never thought I'd want to keep my cold drinks cold and hot drinks hot 😂. Wait till you discover double and triple walled steel water bottles.
I've been sitting here, my water slowly getting room temperature...thanks for reminding me to get up for some ice!
Right now in summer, the "cold" water from the tap is almost or perfect for a shower without adding any hot water to the mix. I live in Texas.
yes this 100%, my tap water during the day comes out luke warm at best...if you want anything cold it needs to come from the fridge or have ice.
Florida here, sister in sympathy. To fill up the kids’ pool and not hear them whine about the ‘cold’, I purposely have a 200’ long black hose. Comes out steaming for the first half. (They are lucky I don’t make them drink from it like I had to, 😆😆😆)
I've lived in Texas, have cousins in west-central Florida, and currently live in very southern Georgia. Southerners see little reason to bury their utilities anywhere near as deep as their northern neighbors, so summer heat does in fact trickle down to the water supply pipes.
The places I went to in Colombia didn’t have water heaters either, which was totally new for this Californian. You had to stay in the shower a really long time for the water to even begin to cool down to room temperature.
@@ladychiere In my bathroom, the hot water tap is dripping, so I keep it turned off most of the time. I'm in Florida too, so the water is generally warm enough that I don't ever need it.
4:00 Yes we put ice in our drinks in the winter too, if its the kind of drink that needs ice (soda, tea, water). It's also why you see people with such large soda's, usually over half of it is ice.
If I want a cold drink in a restaurant, summer or winter. I don't care if it's 80 degrees or -40. I want a cold drink. Yes, I live in extreme weather (Alaska).
...why would anyone put so much ice on soda??? It will get watery so fast in the climate here, I rather just really chill the soda and not use ice at all.
@@marcelocoelho4107 One reason in restaurants is that it takes up more space thus reducing the amount of soda they are actually selling. Saving a couple pennies.
@@KhronicD Wait, you guys buy soda by cup or something? weird... Usually here we buy by the bottle whatever the size, so by giving ice they are actually using more money, in both water and electricity, so it's often a paid extra.
@@marcelocoelho4107 Like I said, in restaurants. It's normal in restaurants to get your drinks in cups in the US. From McDonalds all the way up to fancy pants expensive restaurants.
The fridge with doors side by side is not the typical fridge model. It is considered a more upscale version. The kind that I have found outside of upper middle-class homes/upper-class homes or even professional kitchens is one where the freezer is either on top of the fridge or below it. Not side by side. Granted I want the one with doors side by side, but I can't afford it right now.
The place where my fridge fits isn't big enough for a side-by-side (nor can I afford something fancy). I still have the plain model with the freezer on top.
Ice harvesting - that's why the appliance was called an Ice Box before a refrigerator
When it was not an appliance lol
Ice houses were very well insulated building to keep ice all summer. I'm old. I saw ice being hauled in a horse pulled cart. Or was that only in my mind? I remember grabbing a piece and sucking on it. Or do I?
In the video game 'L.A. Noire', which is set in the 1950's, the player has to investigate an ice house as part of a narcotics smuggling case. Military-issue morphine syringes where being smuggled deep within the huge ice blocks!
We're not as obsessed with ice as restaurant owners are -- it's a great way for them to fill glasses with cheaper liquid than whatever your drink is supposed to be while pretending they're doing you a favor.
But we usually get free refills, so that balances things out.
@@emmteemee Do many people actually get refills though?
@@ruthsaunders9507 Have you seen the average American? Yes, we get refills.
@@ruthsaunders9507 Yes we sometimes force ourselves to drink more and get a refill. Because it's FREE!
In many places, the glasses are small and the refills slow, so you get much less than you'd like. And crushed ice packs much tighter than cubes, meaning maybe a third of your drink is not ice. But most fast food places will give you less ice if you ask for "light ice". Some won't fill your cup fully if you ask for NO ice.
In the United States, very few things are "typical". Variety is the name of the game.
Well said. And that is our "normal". ☮️😊🇺🇸
That’s why I chuckle at him and other European RUclipsrs. It’s always one or the other or which one is typical and what’s better?! I’m yelling at the tv ITS ALL THE ABOVE!! 😂
Exactly! I for one, prefer my beverages without ice unless they are at room temperature to begin. If it's already cool, I do not add ice. Gail L.
Lol, yeah, you might say we're typically atypical. 🙃
I'm 67 years old. Our fridges have had some type of automatic ice maker since I was 5. There are 3 door configurations (sort of!). Single door that opens and a freezer section inside. Double side by side doors with freezer next to the fridge. Or the double top/bottom configuration with the freezer on the top OR bottom. These days, many fridges have extra doors with great features...water/ice dispenser...mini exterior door for condiments (also accessible from inside)...Wine/beer door section. It's amazing what they've come up with!
Living in Texas, it's 100 + here in summer. It's so dang hot if your outside for to long without water you can literally die. With ice cubes it cools the water down so low. it's extremely refreshing to have a glass of water that's that cold. Plus it helps pull your core body temp down so as not to overheat.
I live in Canada, my house is actually on the north shore of Lake Superior. I use ice and every restaurant in Canada uses ice the same way as the US. It's clearly a cultural thing.
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My husband gave me a counter-top ice maker for my birthday this year. It gets turned on first thing in the morning and off at night. I'm 73, retired, and nearly always have a large glass of ice by me. As it melts, I drink the melt and fill it up again and again throughout the day. Room temp water does not quench my thirst, it only makes me thirstier. This is the way I stay hydrated in southern California.
I have thought of getting one just to avoid walking upstairs and down to get more ice. I now use extra cups to carry a spare set of cubes to keep a drink cooler longer.
I live in eastern europe. If I want cold enough water, that holding my hand under it gets unpleasantly cold, I let the faucet run on cold for 10-20 seconds. Was like that even during soveit times. And only bad tasting tap water I ever had was near mining industry and I should know, I have the strongest sense of smell and taste of anyone I know.
In fact I can't drink that cold of a water on an empty stomach straight after waking up, because it hurts.
Us 11:40 fringes can have 3 and 4 doors now. My favorite is the 3 door with freezer on bottom and side by side on top.
I worked in Food and Beverage for 20 years. I remember when swapped out one of our industrial ice machines for a fancy new one that made perfect cubes that were totally clear for aesthetic reasons. A cocktail looks very sexy with one nice square or sphere shaped cube in it than some cloudy, misshapen hotel ice. Only cost 2,300 dollars to convert it. But our sales went up in the bar. Everybody wone. You must also realize that to this day people who live in rural areas who hunt always have a deep freeze in their garage. This is so the beautiful elk and deer meet you hunted will stay good and keep your family fed with nutritious food for a fraction of the cost of buying your red meat protein at the supermarket. Also, fountain drinks. You hop into a 7/11 on a 100 degree day and get a big icy glass of Coca-Cola tastes and feels so refreshing.
Weather doesn’t change the love for ICE!!! Winter we w still want our ICE! 😂😂😂
Exactly. We still have iced drinks (and ice cream) in February, and hot coffee in August. It's not quite Fiddler on the Roof / Tradition, but.... it's close. 🙂
We have a portable ice-making machine (newair). It is 14"x12"x14". It is mainly used in our RV. Also, summer or winter, we use ice cubes at the same amount!
Love the reaction. In America we have every size refridgerator available from very small under counter styles to huge restaurant size walk ins. They have one door, two door styles side by side or top and bottom. Many large families and farmhouses have separate deep freezers that hold large amounts of food for families that cannot run to the store everyday for it is miles away and for holding meats if you raise your own beef, pork, etc. It is all about family size and space.
I've seen a tiny fridge that's just big enough for six 12 ounce cans. It's really not a one size fits all situation that seems to apply to other countries.
@@Jake-fq6ir they make little fridges just for make-up now 😂
Yes, small fridges or even counter-top fridges are for offices or college students. We are also getting more exotic fridges with clear window doors that open in several different ways to access a particular drink space without opening a large door to let put cool air for the whole fridge to warm, for instance.
I’m not obsessed with ice, I do like it in my drinks because cold drink is refreshing even in the winter. I do think it’s weird to scrutinize something as innocuous as ice or no ice in a drink. To each their own.
The rest of the world is jealous of America, and always has been. That's why it's trying to destroy it. And it's been quite successful since 9/11.
As an American I was not aware that our standards of living were not the worlds standards of living, it’s nice to see other perspectives on our culture
It's refreshing to see comments like this! The reason why Americans have such a bad reputation of being selfish/Karens/stupid while overseas is because our country is set up in a way to where we don't see this other perspective. Our country is unique in the way where our 1 country is literally the size of a continent. Because of that, and war time propaganda being ingrained in older people's heads, we've lost the ability to understand or conceptualize that other countries are different. We have separate washing and drying machines, our electrical sockets are upside down, the whole metric system... Because a lot of things start in America and go overseas (and not the other way around very often!) we don't get to see a look into other people's cultures very often. Keep this ability to be excited about other people's world and our world will be a much better place.
Some things should be standard, like free refills and free speech
@@bladedicedragon Free Speech, Yes. Free Refills, No. Why would you want to help export our American obesity problem?
As an American you were not aware of this?
The Education system really is screwed
Or your a Doorknob
@@bladedicedragon Let's just leave it at free speech. :)
I like to have my drinks cold, regardless of the time of year. One or two cubes in a drink will melt fast and dilute your drink. Filling most of the glass with ice before pouring will keep the drink colder and slow the melting. I keep juice and milk in the refrigerator so they don't get ice in the glass, but soda and liquor don't take up room in my fridge, so ice is needed when making those drinks.
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I have a table top ice maker. It is a GREAT little appliance. I live in northeast Tennessee where the summer temperatures regularly get well above 80 F (26.66 C) and sometimes over 100 F (37.77 C) . On hot days it is very pleasant to have a cold iced drink. Here in the U.S. , especially in the South, iced tea is a summertime staple drink. Most people drink it as "sweet tea" with sugar added while it is still hot to dissolve it well. Some of us, including me, drink it unsweetened. When I was a kid it was not served pre-sweetened, one had to stir in the sugar at the table, and there were long handled spoons called "Iced tea spoons" specifically for that purpose.
went through 4 of those when my wife was anemic. when she started getting iv's of iron she stopped eating ice.
Southeast Kentucky,I feel you on that heat and humidity,thank God the mountains here give late morning sun and early sunset 90% humidity is torture
0:10 I have one of those! We call it Ice-Vader, because of it's loud whirring sound. At first, I laughed at my family for getting such a wasteful thing, but here I am- everyday, I go in for a scoop or two, to fill my cup!
The only downsides (in my experience) is if the ice isn't been used, the water will go stale & taste of chlorine/minerals, such as iron. You really have to keep these things clean, if you hope to not suddenly d¡e of d3ath. 😅
We are not obsessed with ice. It's usually a necessity in our climates.
Enjoying a cold glass of water or other beverage is not an obsession .
Other countries that are disturbed by this, are the ones that have the obsession of what the US does or doesn't do.
Being different from one another is fascinating and is fun to learn about one another. ☮️
Americans are obsessed with having ice in their drinks.
Non-americans are obsessed with having warm drinks, no air conditioning, and being hot and sweaty.
I'm pretty sure Lawrence purposefully misused the word obsessed as click bait. He's gotta make money. Just for fun I looked it up: "Unable to stop thinking about something." LOL Yes, we think about ice all the time, what else could we possibly think about?
They say this to Americans but don't say anything to tropical countries who love ice in everything even food and snacks all the time.
In America, rectangles are considered to be an efficient and convenient way to divide property and objects into separate parts which can easily Fit together like puzzle pieces without wasting space. America grew so quickly, with land changing hands, that everything was divided into rectangular Lots, which were easy to draw on a map. Here, Everything needs to be designed using straight lines & 90-degree angles.
And a Russian helped show the world just how efficient grouped rectangles/squares can be with Tetris.
"Ice box". the first refrigerators. Add ice, to preserve food. In 1930, my Mother grew up with an "Ice Box".
I have never liked a side by side, refrigerator and freezer. I use Refridgerator on top, and freezer on the bottom appliance.
My friend lives on a farm. He has one of those outside under the porch (where it's shady). It's pretty awesome. You put water in, it makes ice, if you don't use the ice, it melts until it becomes new ice. over and over. Pretty sweet. He got it for less than $100 US, I believe.
Yes we know about ice harvesting in the US the first refrigerators were callled ice boxes. The ice man would deliver huge blocks of ice to keep food cold in the ice box. My grandmother still call the refrigerator the box
My Aunt had an ice box, I still remember the ice delivery man, he came by daily. The old ice company is now a shopping center.
Our two fridge ice makers stopped working, now i buy 16 pounds every 3 days from the gas station. Maybe I am addicted to it.
@broken4096 buy a countertop ice machine . . . Ours cost $89 - regular price - and can make up to 26 pounds of ice in a 24 hr. day.
It woudn't take too many days to pay for itself as apposed to buying ice.
16 lbs every 3 days? What the hell are you doing with all that ice? I get it. I love ice too... but 5 1/3 lbs a day? Wow.
The bagged ice isn't supposed to go in your drink, it's supposed to go in a cooler around your cans or bottles.
@@cp368productions2 It's for drinks or coolers. They used filtered water, so it tastes better than ice from my freezer.
@@cp368productions2 It can do both lol.
Not just for colder drinks, but I can relate to otters, chewing/biting into ice is really satisfying.
I am just waiting until this creator discovers 'soft' ice (Sonic/Chik-Fil-A style ice). I'm guessing the idea that the U.S. literally has a premium-level ice product would be mind-blowing to most European citizens.
@@msskaggs3911Oooooooo, Sonic ice! I would pay top dollar (well, ok, mid level to top,) for a used Sonic ice making machine! “Move the car, Honey! I found a new baby to park in the garage!!” (Just kidding, our car already doesn’t fit in the garage. That’s where he stores his obsessive amount of books and model train stuff.)
I like the possibility that the apparent overuse of rectangles all around us is a big trol on everyone else 😂
Hi from Los Angeles🙋♀️.
Yes, I have a typical "American Fridge": Side by Side, with an ice and filtered chilled water dispenser on the freezer door. The ice dispenser gives a choice of cubed or crushed ice. There is also a built in night light on the dispenser.
One big difference between our dispenser fridges here in the US and the "American Fridges" sold in other countries: Plumbing. Our dispensers are connected to a plumbing line. The ones sold internationally, typically have a water tank in the fridge that must be filled manually. Also, the icemakers in international units are not fully automatic. The water is auto fed to the icemaker but once made, you need to turn a knob to drop it into the ice holding bin.
Also, American fridges are really all they sell here even if you prefer a single door.
What you call an “American fridge” with the two doors side by side, I don’t think is more common here than the top and bottom door type. I am 60 years old and I don’t think I’ve ever had a side by side fridge in any house I’ve ever lived in, just top and bottom style.
The side by side doors are more expensive. We got lucky, and the previous owners left theirs when we bought the house. But we have three fridges, inside kitchen, outside kitchen, and the garage. One is side by side, and the other two are traditional top bottom fridges. (We live in a state where you have to bring your own fridge for apartment rentals, and we weren't expecting the previous owners to leave their fridges after the sale of the house. Now we have ample fridge and freezer storage)
I have a small condo with a small kitchen -- a side-by-side fridge just won't fit.
When I was younger we had an icebox & the iceman came around about 2X a week. We were not allowed to open the door to the icebox unless absolutely necessary. We got a refrigerator with small freezer on top when I was about 12 yrs old. About 20 yrs ago I got a side by side (we call them French Door) with ice & water in the door.
"I don’t think I’ve ever had a side by side fridge in any house I’ve ever lived in"
You don't remember that?
@@duckducknightWe had one, too. We also had a wringer washing machine.
One thing he did not mention is the "Icehouse" as a term for where to get cold beer.
In the 1980s I and my high school friends would buy cold beer from the icehouse in Spartanburg South Carolina . We were under age , but there was little law enforcement then .
There is an "ice house" on the county line here. (The Ice House is the actual name of the bar😂).The beer is always well chilled, but they don't actually sell ice. 😊
Yes. Watching as I’m eating the ice in my cup, after drinking the water out of it. The ice is from my countertop ice machine. 😂😂😂
Our new refrigerator has three doors (the freezer one is more of a drawer) and two icemakers. One icemaker delivers cubed or crushed ice through one door. The other drops cubed ice into a bin inside the freezer drawer. Unlike pricier refrigerators, it doesn't have a display screen, cameras, and an internet connection to tell us when we need milk, eggs, or ice cream. 🤪
I think we have the same fridge lol…Does it take like 5 mins to fill up a cup of water w the water dispenser? If so thats ours. 🤣😂
I have never needed anything to tell me when I need Ice Cream. It is just added on every shopping list automatically. A gallon of milk lasts 2 days in my home. And i have not needed to buy eggs in 16 years. I go in my backyard and open a gate to collect my butt nuggets. My girls provide me with roughly 50 a day.
@bradkirchhoff5703 The flow rate is about 1 ounce per second. I would check the rate going into the fridge, the fridge's filter, or the rates of others of the same model. Something might be wrong.
It's true: we love ice. My German grandmother was convinced drinking ice water would kill me.
Several years ago, my mom took a tour that went to China, Russia, and some Eastern European countries. Some people in the tour group caught a cold, and pretty soon everyone caught it. One of your guides blamed their illness on all the ice water they drank. 😄
My mom still tells me I'm weakening my heart by drinking iced drinks.
Texas it's life or death we need ice💯
@@emmteemee Some places don't have tap water that is particularly clean, and that's what the ice gets made from. If you get soda or bottled water but add the tap water ice, that can be an issue.
I and my family like our drinks hot or cold, not room temp. Ice is essential.
@2:20 , my gf has one of those machines, namely because her fridge does not have a built in ice maker and she goes through more ice in a day than the cube trays would be useful for.
I lived, for 37 years, on the shore of a lake in western Massachusetts (Lake Congamond) that was one of the largest ice-harvesting operations in New England during the late 1800's and early 1900's. It was known for having the freshest, purest ice because of the lake being spring fed by the large Great Brook Aquifer. The ice blocks would be stored in huge Ice Houses, large timber warehouses lined with huge quantities of sawdust that kept the ice frozen all through the summer months. In the Ice House the blocks would stay, awaiting railroad transport down-coast to New York City and points south. The last of the great Congamond Ice Houses were torn down by the 1930's and the timbers repurposed across the region in many new applications. My house there contained one of those massive beams from a longleaf pine tree that was timbered in the 1880's. It was about 20 feet long (a little over 6 meters) and was milled into a 4-inch by 16-inch strongback beam. You can't even buy timbers that big anymore except in rare instances. After spending decades of use as a floor beam in an Ice House, it was purchased by my then-elderly neighbor who knew of its pedigree and used it as a dock-float pontoon for a boat dock at his swimming beach operation. After years of floating in the lake, he removed it and repurposed it again as a children's "teeter-totter" (or "see-saw") seat beam in the kids playground at his beach. When he closed the beach op, he again repurposed that same beam as a sill plate in my house, laying in near ground contact. I removed it in a remodel of the house. It was so heavy that it took two people to lift it and was 100% free of insect attack, sporting only about a quarter-inch rot layer on the outer surfaces. I cut into it to re-use it as a decorative mantel indoors, and the smell of the fresh sawdust was something beautiful to behold! It was clearly a pine tree odor but was uniquely like nothing else I had ever smelled before! They don't make trees like that anymore. Well, they surely do, but we done cut 'em all down! 😞
I know a lot of pine was harvested from my state of Mississippi in the 19th century - I wonder if your beam started here? Something bittersweet about that thought…
@@Jennifer-pb9nd It is possible. The neighbor who originally bought the beam as scrap in an auction they held after the Ice House was demolished. He did not say where it may have been timbered, he only knew the date of harvest as "the 1880's." I don't think we ever had that sub-species of pine in New England, so it may have come from MS. Now that I live in the FL panhandle, I see there is a very robust population of longleaf pine. So your hypothesis is quite possible! :)
Grew up in Western Mass!!
@@grace17918 What town? I was in Southwick.
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Huntington. Still dear to my heart.
There are only two kinds of drinks: SCALDING ☕ or FREEZING 🥤! No warm yucky stuff in the middle temperatures!!!
My husband desperately wanted a home ice machine for his office, for Christmas. Then he filed for divorce. NO ICE FOR YOU!!
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You go girl
That was cold!
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I can see why he did. He Should've gotten free a lot earlier.
We used to live in New England and rented a home from the owner of one of the first ice houses. He told me stories of how many of his brothers and sisters died in the lake behind the house we rented. They wrote a book about him. The Iceman of Post Road. They were a black family, and one of the first business owners in Rhode Island. The ice was used in Ice Boxes to keep meat and milk cold.
It is SO HOT here in the summer
10:01 - This is a very common style of fridge, but I would say the MOST typical is a freezer on top and a fridge on the bottom. They're less expensive as well.
We had a side by side. Never again. It limits how wide items can be.
@@qdllc That's why they make French Door refrigerators now. Two doors, but to a common compartment, rather than two separate compartments.
uh... the countertop ice maker, is not something that is common in the US.
we usually have it built into the refrigerator-freezer, if at all. if not, there's likely one of the ice mold trays in their cupboard.
@@nobody8717 I didn’t even know the countertop ones existed! Grew up with the ice maker in the freezer and now use ice trays in my fridge. I’m looking up countertop ice makers now though! That’s awesome
And that is why I love Sam’s, mine is red
Huh? The cupboard? What are they doing there? The ice mold trays are freezing the water in them, IN THE FREEZER! LOL! How ya gonna have ice if the trays are in the cupboard?
@@itschelseakay My wife and i bought one because we were tired of the trays, they are amazing. I actually have the same model in the video but mine is black.
I have 12 ice trays... because of my sister... I rarely use ice myself since I use cups made by Contigo (the cups are basically a little thermos) they keep hot stuff hot, and cold stuff cold, for way longer than normal cups/tumblers, my sister on the other hand, loves not just ice in her drinks, she actually eats ice the way a child eats a piece of hard candy (in about 2 minutes)... unless it's bagged ice from the store or gas station, she eats that ice like she's eating regular food
My mother absolutely has a countertop icemaker. I thought it was a gimmick, but it totally works and she loves it! It only makes a little bit at a time, so she moves the newly made ice into a reservoir in the freezer, so there is always enough on hand for get togethers or super hot days.
I grew up in Maine, in New England, in the USA. We had an "ice house" on our farm that has been in the family since the mid-1800s. It is a separate building, about the size of a single-car garage. Ice would be harvested from the local lake in the winter and placed in the ice house. I recall my grandfather (b. 1893) telling me that a large block of ice, perhaps 3 feet x 3 feet x 2 feet would be surrounded by 1 foot of sawdust. This insulated the ice and it would last well into the summer. All this was well before my time. I was born in 1955 so I remember only electric refrigerator/freezer combination units we see today, with the improvement of automatic ice makers and automatic defrosting.
As a child, I recall some camps/cabins on the lakes where people had summer homes - very rustic - still had ice boxes. These looked like small refrigerators but held a large block of ice that kept the contents cool. I have not seen one of those in use in many years. You will see people with "coolers" for camping and parties where it is common to buy large bags of ice cubes from local stores and gas stations to fill these coolers. That remains a popular use of purchased ice cubes.
With regard to the small countertop ice maker shown at the beginning of the video, these are common, too. I have one that is used at our summer place when we have parties. The regular refrigerator/freezer ice maker cannot produce ice fast enough for a party. The countertop models do. If you start one of these about an hour before the party, it will produce its first tray of "bullet-shaped" ice cubes in 10 minutes and continue to produce ice cubes at the same pace. There is an automatic shutoff. These units are filled with water manually. They are plugged into the electric wall socket and that's it. We have never run out of ice using one of these.
You may note the cubes are rather cloudy looking - kind of white ice. This is fine and common to most ice makers. However, most fancy cocktails in restaurants have "clear" ice. That is the preferred ice to have for drinks (more attractive). There now exists countertop units that produce clear ice although these are more expensive. If you search around, you can find the traditional white-ice "bullet cube" machines for under $100. The clear ice machines are usually twice that or more.
So, yes, Americans are obsessed with ice. It's also hot here. So, there's that!
Thanks for the video! Very interesting! Keep up the good work!
I’m an American and I only really like ice water in the summer. In winter makes no sense to me. I do prefer it chilled (not room temp) but with no ice. Some of the nicer restaurants will serve chilled water on a glass bottle for you to pour yourself which I appreciate. Another thing that I don’t like about ice that has Halle ed to me before is when I drink, the ice sticks together in the back but then while I’m drinking the ice breaks apart and pushes water into my face. I had always wondered why and where it came from that Americans must do ice in their water all the time
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The more ice you add to a drink, the less it will melt, and the less diluted your drink will be. It also takes up a lot of space in the cup shop this is also part of the reason we have larger cups and free refills. You're not getting much soda when you're cup is full of ice, and the soda syrup only costs a few cents, its more expensive and a bit of a waste to clean the glass and throw away the ice over and over again.
We've just gotten use to beverages served that way. We feel more refreshed, more satisfied when our drinks are cold. While we don't crave iced beverages "as much" in the winter we still drink them. Restaurants especially serve soft drinks over ice because they can charge the same price for less soda. Also, most buildings are heated/cooled within the same 5 degree F range year round, so ice cold drinks in the winter are not unpleasant.
I do have one of those. One of my friends put me up to it. We are obsessed with ice in our drinks. LOL.
This guy is definitely on point. I won’t even consider a fridge if it doesn’t have an ice dispenser! I’ve also recently switched to the side by side fridge with pull out freezer drawers underneath and love it.
I guess this has become part of American “Culture”.
Usually the first part of a fridge to break! And certain refrigerator brands it’s almost guaranteed to break in first two years. Such a waste of money and a huge waste of interior space for something that will only last a year or two. And these days you’d be amazed at how little space there is inside a fridge. The previous owners of my house bought a fridge from one of the notorious brands, it’s only a few years old and they had to write in the seller’s disclosures that the ice maker doesn’t work.
Mine is freezer on top, fridge on bottom. It has an icemaker, but not a dispenser.😱
10:10 The two doors side by side fridge is typically a model with an ice and water dispenser. Sometimes it may also mean that the left side is a freezer and the right side is a refrigerator. Many models of this type may have the lower 1/3 dedicated to a freezer which pulls out like a drawer while the two doors are there to more easily put groceries inside. This type of refrigerator is definitely "newer," I remember seeing them start to become more common in 2008-2009 here in the US. Many households have an older model where the top 1/4 is a freezer and the bottom has a single door which opens to a refrigerator. This model typically does not have a built-in ice maker and you have to use ice cube trays.
I have one of these countertop ice makers. It works ingeniously, there are tubes with metalfins that have refrigerant flowing through them. Water is pumped above and flows over the cold fins, gradually forming very clear ice cubes. A motor pushes the completed cubes into a basket. It's good for parties and 2 people homes. It's over 40°C all summer, so ice is nice
We drink lots of iced drinks because it's friggin hot, and even in the winter here in Florida, it gets friggin HOT, but I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Side by side door refrigerators are relatively new. The older version is top and bottom doors with the freezer on top and refrigerator on the bottom.
I grew up with an old avocado painted Frigidaire that had the fridge on top and the bottom was a freezer.
By new you mean 40 years old. I grew up with one.
@@ZhiperserI was thinking the same. We got our first side-by-side in the early 90’s.
Side by side came out before the 1990s, I think it was the late 1970s. Bottom freezers were certainly available by the early 1960s, my parents had one.
I have an ice machine, 2 in fact, and we use them year round.
We have free standing ice vending machines in some areas where you pay $3 for 3lbs of ice. We usually use this for coolers to put canned and bottled sodas or as a backup if bad weather knocks out the electricity (like a tornado) to keep food fresh.
I also like to just take a cup of ice with me to munch on as a snack. It's crunchy, better than processed snacks.
We also use it for when we hurt ourselves, have a fever, or eat it to combat sore throats.
As for the fridge, we have 2 French door fridges. One in the kitchen and one in the entertainment area that's mostly drinks and quick snacks.
We even have a deep freeze which is just a large freezer. I store my flour and sugar in the freezer instead of a pantry because of insects. A lot of people will buy a whole cow/pig and have it butchered and keep it in the deep freeze, or if they are a hunter, their kill will be processed, vacuum sealed, and mostly kept in the freezer.
When I go out to order food, I ask for no ice in my drinks. I have a mold allergy and most of all ice machines will have a mold issue. Starbucks and Chickfilet are the only restaurants consistently clean and sanitize their ice machines.
Americans are also obsessed with yeti cups that keep your drinks cold and Ice as ice for hours on end.
My Husband and I use ice year around. Always do you make me smile. your American friend, I love you too. ❤️
The best ice is crushed ice, gives you a colder drink and takes up less space
usually we use ice cube trays or refrigerators with built-in ice machines
OR ALL THREE
I’m an American and i would not buy an ice machine. I’d just use the freezer of my refrigerator. There are some beverages where ice cubes enhance the flavor of beverages that are carbonated sodas. If you’re parboiling vegetables you need water that very frigid to stop the cooking process. Putting ice cubes in water achieves that. Ice is also good to place on a boo boo the restrict the flow of blood and reduce swelling.