RE: Soul-searching question
March 14, 2012 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 12:16 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(March 14, 2012 at 11:53 am)aleialoura Wrote: Why don't Europeans like ice in their beverages? I know when I worked downtown, I served a lot of Brits, and they never wanted ice in shit, which is really fucking weird.
Hellooo! Brits ain't Europeans! As they themselves will be the first to tell you (of course they can't read maps).
Quote:I would tell them it was free and everything,
FYI: something being free is important to Americans, Scots, Swiss, and Dutch. Not to Brits. 'Stiff upper lip' and all.
Quote:and they just turned up their little noses, and said, "No, no. That's quite alright. No ice for me, than you."
WTF? Ice makes shit cold, and it's better cold. Everyone knows that!
Sure, you ice stuff to numb the atrocious taste in its natural state...
Quote:Then they would ask for tea, and look at me all crazy when I brought them a tall glass of tea, packed with ice and a straw.
"I wanted HOT tea."
Well, then why didn't you say so?
They did! They asked for tea. Tea in its natural state is steamingly hot.
If they want ice tea they would ask for ice tea. But you assumed they wanted ice tea because it's a knee-jerk American reflex to kill all taste with ice. You yanks chuck ice in everything. Regardless! You don't even know what the real taste of stuff is.
