Obviously we have ice cubes here, but air conditioners are somewhat rare. We really don't need them here thou some people have them for very hot summers. Most people just have fans, and that is actually just enough
Because the USA stretches, in European geographic terms, from the Alps to the southern end of the Sahara.
For them, it is therefore unbelievable that people who live north of the majority of Canadians don't really need air conditioning, as US-American "north" (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C.) stretches from Naples to Tunis. If Tunisia or Sicily is what you consider "the cold north", then it makes perfect sense that you can't fathom that people, who live farther north of it than Key West is south of it, don't need air-conditioning.
Hey man, i stayed in Stockholm and i was hot. Sure, it was because I'd never seen a radiator before and couldn't figure out how to turn it down/off, but that's not the point. (Why do you have your heaters up so damn high anyway?)
It was just as hot in Longyearbyen, Oslo, Copenhagen, and a ton of places i stayed in Germany. Europeans just seem to like sweating indoors. Wasn't as bad in the UK or Rof Ireland though.
When I moved to the US, one of my earlier observations was exactly this - if I did not explicitly ask for 'just a little ice', the default service would be a glass filled perhaps 2/3rd with ice before the beverage was added. Doing so in the South produced some weird looks
at least some drinks are made to be watered down. learned it the hard way when I ordered a drink there without ice (yes, I drink my beverages "warm") and it was awfully sweet 😖.
maybe that's the reason everything's so super sweet there?
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That's not true. They have ice cubes. When I was living in Bavaria, I saw plenty of it. It was a bit exhausting though, as you needed to wake up early and go hiking all the way to the Zugspitze to mine some of it on the glacier, then put it in a basket and carry it on your shoulders all the way down and then transport it to Munich on a barge along the Isar.
I know exactly what you mean. The hardest part is that you always have to go in pairs. One person hauls the ice, the other person, since we don't have cars , bangs two halves of a coconut together to simulate transport. And the barge man always asks those silly questions or asks for too many coins. So much work...
It's because in Europe we serve the drinks cold and like it to actually taste of the drink, so a couple of icecubes is enough. In the US the need to whole glass to be filled with ice, to water down the drink so it's lost half the flavour the drink is actually 1/5 of the size of the glass so they think the free refills are actually value for money.
They do have ice cubes if you ask for them in some resturaunts or make them yourself, and they also do have airco (at least DB Fernverkehr does)
The thing is why would you use ice to water down your drinks anyway (edit, unless you like watered down drinks maybe? But if I want a watery drink I just drink water)
where the fuck are they getting the "no ice cubes" and "no water" myths?
They do this too often to be a fluke, is there something they all watch on TV that tells them these myths?
Someone needs to open a restaurant for them with "American service". Free refills ( of mainly ice), immediate ice water without asking, hoovering annoying waiters, immediate bill and chuck out with the last bite and a 30% service charge. They'd make a huge profit.
As the country where the refrigeration machine for producing ice was invented (Carl von Linde, 1871) and then developed into the modern refrigerator, we naturally also have ice cubes here in Germany. What's more, this invention (the refrigerator) means that we can serve our drinks cold without having to put a ton of ice in the glass. So no one is drinking warm beverages here in Germany if he doesn't want.
By the way: if you want a lot of ice in your drink, all you have to do is tell the waiter. The bar owner will be happy, because the more ice there is in the glass, the less drink fits in and the greater the profit margin…
Air conditioning is also available, of course. It may not be as common here as it is in the US, but it is available. However, if you book the cheapest hotel or the most basic Airbnb accommodation, you will have to make do without AC.
However, statements such as “Germany does have ice cubes and air conditioners. Just imagine drinking ice-cold beverages. A paradise.” are not particularly effective in provoking people and reinforcing prejudices.
Americans always need ice in their drinks because the colder a beverage, the less taste it has, masking bland tasting beverages and watering down those that taste bad. We don't need ice cold beverages in Germany because what we drink usually tastes good
Edit: Er I mean ... of course we are too poor to have fridges and freezers here ... had to edit this because I had to look up the words for these fancy cold and ice boxes the Americans have because we can't keep stiff cool here ...
And if the beer has to be served so cold then it must be really crap beer to begin with. Cellar temperature is perfect for a proper beer so that you can actually detect its flavours properly. (cellar temperature around 12 degrees)
It amazes me how unconditioned Americans are. They travel to a country that's 2000+ km further north than where they live and complain about the heat?!?
Even if they were right and we didn’t have ice cubes in Europe, we still have fridges. Drinks taps like in bars and fast food restaurants usually have coolers too. I enjoy ice in my drink on a warm day, but it’s not really that necessary to keep your drink cold.
Sure, your drink might get less cold 10 mins after getting it out of the fridge, but the ice will have melted by then anyway, so there’s little difference. We do have ice though, and most fast food places, restaurants and bars that I’ve been to serve ice in drinks (not beer though, that’d be mad).
Wonder how someone like this would survive in a place like China, where they serve boiling hot water with food and people generally hate cold and/or carbonated water.
I rarely put ice in my drinks and if I want a proper cold drink I get it out of the fridge (I suppose you could also ask how long they're sitting on their drinks for?)
Obviously we have ice cubes here, but air conditioners are somewhat rare. We really don't need them here thou some people have them for very hot summers. Most people just have fans, and that is actually just enough
Stop lying on the internet, as your neighbour and fellow europoor I know you like my country cannot afford ice cubes or aircon.
How can I lie on the internet when we don't even have internet in Europe??? 🧐
You use a series of strings and tin cans to connect with the USican internet. Which they invented and own /s
You got me, again. Also the string and cans are made and financed by america
And Europe didn’t even wear a suit or said thank you
too poor to buy a suit
Whats a suit ? Im wearing a loincloth.
Made in China, of course.
You guys have internet ??
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I still send by Smoke signs and Bush drums
I still send signs by drawing on the floor
I still use scent marking
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don't forget no fridges either! all the beverages are always warm forever!
Neighbour? I thought we are one country
/s
My bad, no education in Europooria.
A/C-technician and German here: Yes, they are somewhat rare, but getting more common, especially the mobile units. Its not a fast process though
Mobile ice cubes?!
Mobile A/C units for living areas.
That will be on the American air force bases that are station here (Europe) to provide all of our protection
There are far too many commercial and public building that should have them, though.
That schools can easily get up to 30°C is a disgrace. Same for hospitals and retirement homes.
In my personal experience AC is getting more popular every year
tbf, we used to not need aircons, this summer was very mild, but summers are going to be hotter and its going to be hell even with fans
Hotels would probably have air conditioning though, which is how I'd expect most Americans to experience Europe - unless they're all using Airbnb.
You usually get them during summer, but it doesn't really matter, since drinks are cooled anyway.
Disagree. More AC's are defo needed. Summers getting hotter.
Air conditioning is becoming more and more popular. We've got two in our house.
May to September is just a survival quest every year. ACs ARE necessary in such hot climate. Only Germans keep lying to themselves and everyone.
Don't need ice for beer silly
If they need ice, they aren't drinking it fast enough. Lightweights
I will fight anyone who puts icecubes even near a pint of beer
Barbaric, isn't it?
And bloody dangerous in many parts of the world!
How do you feel about those pints that you put into a freezer and they keep drinks cold for a good long while?
I mean, how long can drinking a pint take? 15 minutes maybe
Depends on how much philosophical discussions take place during the consumption of said pint.
Fair point.
We all know in the US they drink the piss of Europeans who've drank the beer, and that gets them feeling all fuzzy.
Has he looked in a supermarket? or a fridge? or asked at the resturant?....and why are American obsessed with AC!
I guess this is the only real thing that they can be proud of?
Because the USA stretches, in European geographic terms, from the Alps to the southern end of the Sahara.
For them, it is therefore unbelievable that people who live north of the majority of Canadians don't really need air conditioning, as US-American "north" (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C.) stretches from Naples to Tunis. If Tunisia or Sicily is what you consider "the cold north", then it makes perfect sense that you can't fathom that people, who live farther north of it than Key West is south of it, don't need air-conditioning.
But most of Europe rarely gets so hot for so long that you need AC to survive.
... and that's (northern) Canada to US-Americans, which they never experienced.
It's quite like it is hard to grasp how it is to live in the tropics for a northern European, as we just have never experienced it.
It's incomprehensible because it doesn't match one's own personal experience.
Edit: or it is "like in Alaska" to them, but who ever travelled to Alaska?
They aren't good at geography. Many can't even find their own country on a world map. You are expecting too much.
Your "most of Europe" is somewhere north of Hamburg and Amsterdam, and even there are exceptions.
I can't say the sane from the Spainish summer unfortunately 😢
Imagine always drinking watered down beverages.
Imagine a country where temperatures are not hot enough to justify air conditioners 51 weeks per year.
Well im Dutch, i dont have to imagine it haha
and im Swedish, what are hot weather?
Hey man, i stayed in Stockholm and i was hot. Sure, it was because I'd never seen a radiator before and couldn't figure out how to turn it down/off, but that's not the point. (Why do you have your heaters up so damn high anyway?)
I would say most do not have it up high at all, so my guess it was turned on by misstake and someone turned it up for fun.
It was just as hot in Longyearbyen, Oslo, Copenhagen, and a ton of places i stayed in Germany. Europeans just seem to like sweating indoors. Wasn't as bad in the UK or Rof Ireland though.
When I moved to the US, one of my earlier observations was exactly this - if I did not explicitly ask for 'just a little ice', the default service would be a glass filled perhaps 2/3rd with ice before the beverage was added. Doing so in the South produced some weird looks
Imagine drinking US beer which is like sex in a canoe and then adding ice to dilute it even more. That is beyond wimpish
I mean with the amount of sugar and chemicals in their drinks, can you blame them?
at least some drinks are made to be watered down. learned it the hard way when I ordered a drink there without ice (yes, I drink my beverages "warm") and it was awfully sweet 😖. maybe that's the reason everything's so super sweet there? 🤢
That's not true. They have ice cubes. When I was living in Bavaria, I saw plenty of it. It was a bit exhausting though, as you needed to wake up early and go hiking all the way to the Zugspitze to mine some of it on the glacier, then put it in a basket and carry it on your shoulders all the way down and then transport it to Munich on a barge along the Isar.
Too much work for just one drink.
I know exactly what you mean. The hardest part is that you always have to go in pairs. One person hauls the ice, the other person, since we don't have cars , bangs two halves of a coconut together to simulate transport. And the barge man always asks those silly questions or asks for too many coins. So much work...
And we are still smaller then Texas 😔. Sigh.
Biggest issue is always keeping the ice frozen since we don’t have any AC and therefore also no fridges or freezers.
Thank you for your service. Thoughts and prayers.
😁
It's because in Europe we serve the drinks cold and like it to actually taste of the drink, so a couple of icecubes is enough. In the US the need to whole glass to be filled with ice, to water down the drink so it's lost half the flavour the drink is actually 1/5 of the size of the glass so they think the free refills are actually value for money.
To be fair, with how sweet those drinks probably are, you might want them watered down anyway...
Sweet tea in the south to me is nothing but sugar water.
We are so poor we can't afford anything. USA please come and show us how ice cubes work.
No, they have ice dodecahedrons.
if they only knew that they make all their ice cubes with and all their A/Cs are an German invention from the imperial age.
I bet that was written by someone who has a Boch AC unit
Still waiting for a "They have no ice cubes and we invented the fridge" post but I still haven't seen one. I live in hope.
just in: Germany doesn't have ice cubes according to Olaf Von Kristoffersson from Missouri
You can get some at McD or Burger King, but they are all imported from the US!
We Germans don't have the recipe and our scientists suck ass.
They do have ice cubes if you ask for them in some resturaunts or make them yourself, and they also do have airco (at least DB Fernverkehr does)
The thing is why would you use ice to water down your drinks anyway (edit, unless you like watered down drinks maybe? But if I want a watery drink I just drink water)
You can't. Europeans don't drink water, remember?
I drink water (as a European)
And they wonder why we call them uneducated morons...
Some one have never had a decent beer.
Yeah, onone hand not enough ice cubes and on the other hand washing your hands with cold water is also not good enough...
I had a few colleagues that couldn't work for two (2) days in July because of the heat !
I guess we can complain about the absence of AC in Alaska ? Of the absence of heated garage exit in Miami ?
where the fuck are they getting the "no ice cubes" and "no water" myths?
They do this too often to be a fluke, is there something they all watch on TV that tells them these myths?
Restaurants not giving them water automatically like in the US.
Someone needs to open a restaurant for them with "American service". Free refills ( of mainly ice), immediate ice water without asking, hoovering annoying waiters, immediate bill and chuck out with the last bite and a 30% service charge. They'd make a huge profit.
As the country where the refrigeration machine for producing ice was invented (Carl von Linde, 1871) and then developed into the modern refrigerator, we naturally also have ice cubes here in Germany. What's more, this invention (the refrigerator) means that we can serve our drinks cold without having to put a ton of ice in the glass. So no one is drinking warm beverages here in Germany if he doesn't want.
By the way: if you want a lot of ice in your drink, all you have to do is tell the waiter. The bar owner will be happy, because the more ice there is in the glass, the less drink fits in and the greater the profit margin…
Air conditioning is also available, of course. It may not be as common here as it is in the US, but it is available. However, if you book the cheapest hotel or the most basic Airbnb accommodation, you will have to make do without AC.
However, statements such as “Germany does have ice cubes and air conditioners. Just imagine drinking ice-cold beverages. A paradise.” are not particularly effective in provoking people and reinforcing prejudices.
That poster never went outside of the basement of his parents where he lives with his sister..
My American drink I paid full price for is 75% frozen water.
Americans always need ice in their drinks because the colder a beverage, the less taste it has, masking bland tasting beverages and watering down those that taste bad. We don't need ice cold beverages in Germany because what we drink usually tastes good
Edit: Er I mean ... of course we are too poor to have fridges and freezers here ... had to edit this because I had to look up the words for these fancy cold and ice boxes the Americans have because we can't keep stiff cool here ...
We have cheaper meat than them
So many people die in Germany from not having cold beverages.
Don‘t they know what a fridge is or what?
You'll get hanged on the town square if you serve warm beer in Germany.
And if the beer has to be served so cold then it must be really crap beer to begin with. Cellar temperature is perfect for a proper beer so that you can actually detect its flavours properly. (cellar temperature around 12 degrees)
They struggle so much just to feel slightly better about themselfs
Oh, the Germans have ice cubes. But when our waiters see an American, they act as if they never existed in Germany, not even during the Ice Age.
They also don’t have ICE what’s far more better than not having ice cubes!
Oh, we do!
It's just always late. But it has A/C. Which usually doesn't work when needed once in a while.
Na the ICE is a train
In Germany their ICE equivalent used to be called SA and SS (they were two independant orgs) and were dispanded in 1945
Don't they have fridges? Who wants a watered down beverage? We maybe wouldn't need AC if "some" countries wouldn't live like resources are endless....
What's the deal with Americans, ice cubes and AC? And also carrying a water bottle around at all time?
Can't they stand regular cold water, not having a freezer in their apartment and not drink water for a few hours?
Yeah, right. Just stay away.
Warm Beverages .... like Coffee ?
We also don't have daily school shootings so I'd say we win. Ofc we have ice cubes wtf
Just bought two bags from Rewe just now. He just needs to look a bit more 🙄🤷♂️
No ice cubes? Strange then what was that on my cola?
Helles on earth.
That's true! We don't have ice cubes, we call them ice hexaeders.
But we even have something better to cool ourbeverages. It's called a refrigerator.
It is true, Ice Cube is indeed American. However, we did have Ice Cube in Berlin in 2023, it was a really good concert.
So you admit that US americans like cold coffee?
yes we Germans loooooooooove warm beer
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Guess we don't have fridge neither in this strange country named Europe...
...... drinking warm beverages is hell on earth?
We should all collectively start saying that USians don't have sugar cubes because that's a Czech invention...
Where is the ice cube thing coming from? We have ice in Europe!
Tell me about it I hate drinking warm tea and coffee
Just imagine taking cover because a madman has gone on a shooting spree. Hell on earth
It amazes me how unconditioned Americans are. They travel to a country that's 2000+ km further north than where they live and complain about the heat?!?
We have to keep our stereotypes aligned, the guys with the warm beer are the British!
They want to put ice in beer?
No ice in a drink doesn't automatically make it warm ffs.
Went to Germany, asked for 'Eis' instead of 'Eiswürfel'.
They put ice in beer to chill it? Philistines!
I'd love to know where Americans are finding all these warm beverages.
Does America not have refrigeration?
Imagine walking around with an American brain. "Hell on earth"
What they do have in Europe is fridges. They keep a drink cold until you’re ready to drink it. Try it.
Well, a German invented the fridge. We don't need to cool down things with ice anymore like in the middle age.
Maybe the Germans just lost the recipe, and are too embarrassed to ask…
Soooo stupid 🤦🏻
Even if they were right and we didn’t have ice cubes in Europe, we still have fridges. Drinks taps like in bars and fast food restaurants usually have coolers too. I enjoy ice in my drink on a warm day, but it’s not really that necessary to keep your drink cold.
Sure, your drink might get less cold 10 mins after getting it out of the fridge, but the ice will have melted by then anyway, so there’s little difference. We do have ice though, and most fast food places, restaurants and bars that I’ve been to serve ice in drinks (not beer though, that’d be mad).
Can someone explain to me like I'm 12 what this ice cold drinks thing is with Americans?
Oh fuck let me cancel my trip to Berlin, can’t survive without ice cubes
Did you know, even at absolute zero, water just can't form into ice in Germany, true story.
Hot chocolate?
Yeah always drinking warm beer ... Are we famous for that yet?! 😁
But well we like to have our glass filled up to the "Eichstrich" with the drink we are drinking not just with frozen water.
And we do have freezers and fridges that are not only filled with food from extreme couponing.
We also like to taste our drink so freezing and numbing my tongue would not help with that.
Wonder how someone like this would survive in a place like China, where they serve boiling hot water with food and people generally hate cold and/or carbonated water.
We don't need that, we're able to open our windows, close em, and most have a brain
I heard you liked ice cubes so much that i've put ice cubes in ice cube's drink
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We are well known for always drinking warm beer....
It’s those 2000% tariffs on imported US ice that keeps us in “ice poverty” 🤬
Unfortunately we haven't invented ice yet. Since we're europoors we need help from our great saviour the us of a
warm beverage is hell for him but they could be shot in school in their country lmao
Because it's a disgrace to put ice cubes in beer. And we're only drinking beer in Germany, obviously.
So why would we need them?
Do they not have fridges in America?
I rarely put ice in my drinks and if I want a proper cold drink I get it out of the fridge (I suppose you could also ask how long they're sitting on their drinks for?)
No ice cubes=warm beverages? Haven't they heard about fridges?
Bold of them to assume Germany have "beverages". We drink straight from the rhein.
The actual reason is there isn't enough space in the fridge for ice trays. That's reserved for beer and wurst for your abendbrot
I was in Hamburg 2024. If I drank my fritz-cola from a glass I always got ice. Our rather affordable hotel room also had AC..
Well, I get ice for my beverages at any restaurant, because I'm a witch.
The spell I use is "May I have [beverage name] with ice, please."
american has never heard of a fridge that can hold drinks. has never concieved asking for ice.
If your beverages are already served nearly ice cold you don't need ice to water them down
These have to be troll accounts, right? Surely nobody can be that stupid?
Yes we do. We just don't give them to American tourists.
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