WHY IN POLAND PEOPLE DON'T USE ICE?

And you don't know about the bacteria and mould that grows in unserviced AC systems? Wow. No wonder you ended up in Poland teaching English.

Delphiandomine wrote:


I officially award "Delphiandomine" with the worst comeback in PolishForums.com history. (see my last post directed towards him, #100 on this thread)

I know it hurts Mikey. the truth always does. just take it like a man, pappy.

Still in denial about the fact that you didn't even know about the presence of bacteria in unserviced AC systems, huh?

Some biologist!

(were you sweeping the floors in the lab, perhaps?)

and there's also Mountain Dew teeth...

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WHY IN POLAND PEOPLE DON'T USE ICE?

Maybe they don't have a good recipe for ice? or maybe it was lost? :)

LOL I know isn't it terrible? I think adding ice to pop just weakens the flavor

Whatever about ice, on my two trips to Poland I was amazed to find that beer tends not to be served cold. Coolish, verging on lukewarm was my experience. Maybe this has come up before, but for me, a bottle or glass of lukewarm beer is just awful. I would have thought that cold beer is pretty much universal but seemingly not ?!

I would have to say that a too cold beer is awfull. If the beer is to cold it looses its taste (sort of like american budweiser: fuckin`close to water. I wonder if this really is a beer?). For me beer is best some where between +6 to +8 degrees celcius (+42,8 to +46,4 degrees fahrenheit).

I remember in Poland even in the summertime people drinking hot tea, a nice cold drink is refreshing. Americans over do it with the ice, you gotta drink something hot sometimes, it's better on your stomach.

No problem with that temperature. I'd prefer more on the 6 side maybe though. The beer I had in Poland though was certainly warmer than that. I'm guessing it was into double digits - I mean at the very least, as far as I'm concerned the bottle should be cool to the touch but it was just kind of ambient.

I'm talking lager only by the way - I realise that other beers are a completely different thing as regards temperature.

I agree with you Teffle when it comes to temperatures on a lager.

there is this misconception in Poland that anything ice cold is no good for you.

What, crystal meth unkown in Poland? How's that for a business oportunity? ;)

I'm sure it's readily available in Poland.

The kind of fridges used by most household in Poland are mostly those cheap and nasty one door fridge with small freezer compartment. To make ice cubes you have to fill a tray with water and taking ice cube out is always a mess as you have to wriggle them out, and most of them will end up on the floor. Here in Australia most people use fridge with separate ice maker, and we get ice either crushed or cubes by just pressing a button.

I noticed that AC in your home or car is still considered a luxury accessory in most of Europe. The only thing they have is room heater, mostly those 19th century style old radiator heater. Even many of their 3-4 stars rated hotels have no A/C.

Have you been in most households in Poland, AS? I thought you were just here for a short trip :)

Ice is used on hot days :)

most of europe isn't nearly as close to hell as oz land.. ;) there isn't really the need to condition the air.

Yes,we have DC.

It's not the heat that is the problem----It's the humidity--that is what the a/c removes from the air.

so it's in Australia - in case you failed to notice. The same goes for any serious heating besides some gas crap only in the living room only but not in the bedrooms. And Australian winters are not that warm.

When in the British Isles in 1997, I stopped in a little restaurant for something to quench my thirst. On the menu I saw "lemonade"- 50 pence. So I asked the waitress for one. She brought me a warm can of Sprite. What a bunch of hooey! I then asked her for some ice cubes and she replied "we don't have ice cubes". So I drank the stupid thing warm [yeccchh]. I left the 50 pence on the table and departed. Halfway down the block the waitress is chasing me and bellowing "Hey! You didn't pay for your lemonade! I told her "just look on the table". Then she went back. This was in the town of Peel, Isle of Man.

I should have gone to a pub and got a cold pint of Okells Bitter. It's the best tasting brew I ever had.

I'm not implying that Isle of Man is a bad place to visit because it's very charming and scenic. Peel is very quaint and is reputedly the 'most Manx' town on the island.

I guess the only solution is to get some ice packs and freeze them overnight,then carry them with you during the day whenever you want an ice cold drink.I use them when I go shopping and they last for hours.