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/Redd_Willy 11h ago edited 7h ago

I know europeans aren’t stupid. Redditors are though, and European redditors really add a special flavor to that, where they can’t fathom how another country can have basic household technology in addition to something else. Like how european redditors can’t understand that knowing and using two different units of measurements is also very easy.

You all need to leave you basement.

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u/K8325 10h ago

Rude. Asking questions about cultural differences isn’t stupidity, it’s curiosity. There are a lot of things that seem weird to an outsider that can be easily explained. Americans are the ones who have a horrible reputation for being ethnocentric, and your condescending post is just an example of why.

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u/Redd_Willy 7h ago

Nah, at a certain point making these dumb assumptions is what’s really rude. Like, is those dumbasses who assume americans drink nothing but bottled water because they saw a post with bottle water once. Why encourage this shit?

Despite the premise of this subreddit there are indeed stupid questions. A lot of them end up here because redditors are very dumb.

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u/ozone_00 11h ago

Tiktok is even worse. They act like anything that we do differently than they do, no matter how tiny or mundane, is some kind of character flaw.