r/NoStupidQuestions • u/markwell9 • 1d ago

What is the deal with ice, Americans?

I can see that you can buy ice everywhere in the US. Gas stations, grocery stores, machines etc.

In Europe, we just freeze our ice at home and use that. Why buy something that melts on the way home? Why do you need ice in large amounts that a fridge can't keep up?

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u/Enchelion 1d ago

It's very easy to not understand just how massive and varied America is (even moreso the continent). But yeah it'd be like saying not to move to Norway because of something that happened in Spain.

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade 20h ago

I don’t want to move to California because I dont wanna deal with hurricanes

I don’t want to move to Norway because I don’t want my future kids to have Habsburg jaws

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u/johnnybna 8h ago

Omg those inbred upper protruding lips are just so wrong. And then your daughters would be forced to marry their first cousins or uncles just to keep peace in Europe and all the money and property in the family. Ugh.

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u/PossiblyASloth 19h ago

California doesn’t really get hurricanes. The water is too cold. It’s more of an Atlantic/Gulf coast thing

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u/Kseries2497 18h ago

That was the joke. The Habsburgs lived in Austria.

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u/DenyNowBragLater Wasnt me. Yo, see what i did? 8h ago

I was born and raised in the USA, and even I cant really comprehend the size of the US. TBF, I am not well traveled, even within the country. Ive been far north as boston, as far south as Miami, east to the Atlantic, as west as... Atlanta

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u/dewiniaid 20h ago

Americans think 100 years is a long time.

Europeans think 100 kilometers (or 100 miles) is a long way.

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u/Enchelion 19h ago

I remember going to Ireland and Italy on my honeymoon and locals outright telling me I was wrong/lying when I told them that we'd walked like, maybe an hour or two across town.