I can’t explain the science but pop tastes significantly better with ice in it.
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It’s called conditioning, and the food service industry is very happy that you have succumbed.
Diabetes is less happy.
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It’s a texture thing too.
Europe is superior to USA in every way I can currently think of other than personal hygiene.
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To Londoners - I moved out 10 years ago after 25 years - your comment will ring a large bell … Wong Kei
“You finish - you go!”, “Cash only - no check!”
I once saw a guy in there with his 2 kids who not only asked for ice in their drinks but for forks instead of chop-sticks … hilarity ensued.
I lived in a flat share in Golders Green and if we wanted to get a large chinese we would take the tube in the Chinatown, order at Wong Kei, have a beer in the pub next door while waiting and then cab back home - such great value.
From the wiki it’s apparently gone all mainstream (polite) now which is a shame.
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Sports?
We’ve had this before, I forget the actual restaurant though & it was here in scotland a long time ago, most Chinese restaurant operated like this here at one time or another.
I still remember my brother ordering a Chicken maryland and was asking for no sausage and to have a replacement, server said “No replacement” and after a short 5 mins that seemed like an hour he decided on just getting it as it was, it was for my SIL, and when it arrived with no sausage all hell broke loose… He’s never been back 
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The annoying thing about no ice in Europe is the straw won’t stay in the glass when it’s a carbonated beverage. And everyone just ignores that their straw is climbing up and falling all over the place - like the Emperor with no clothes.
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The last week or so it’s been so fucking hot. The HO has an ice machine on his patio and I think I’d be dead without it. 
ice.
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I almost forgot it’s Far Bear Week.
https://twitter.com/katmainps/status/1311697387954401280?s=21
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In the b4 picture 719 was definitely looking to eat you.
32 looks like he ate all the other bears.
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I was in Denali a week after their first bear fatality in 100 years. Apparently a hiker got way to close. The last picture on his camera was of the bear looking up at him. When the rangers got there the bear was still defending its kill.
I was literally planning to do the same hike. But not after that. I was on the bus instead. From the bus we saw a bear running around eating berries off the ground in what looked like kind of a frenzy - trying to get any nutrition he could before hibernation. I would not have wanted to stumble upon that bear out hiking.
Like this?
On one video by Foresty Forest he said there was a hike that they required groups of at least 4 people because of the bears.
I’ve camped basically exactly where that guy is - in Tombstone Provincial park in the Northern Yukon. We were just below the Arctic Circle trying to get pics of the Northern Lights.
When I was in Glacier for a photo trip I was the only one who camped out. Our guide told us not to worry about the bears because they’re gorging on huckleberries this time of year. I said - oh you mean like the giant purple splat right outside my tent? Yep.
Those were two of my best ever trips for photos.
You definitely feel more alive when you’re not the top of the food chain anymore.
Polar bears is a whole other thing to worry about - they’re supposed to be the most dangerous.
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I camped in Yellowstone where Grizzlies were around, but there were 5 adults.
Yeah, Polar Bears don’t eat berries, just large mammals and we fit the bill. Polar Bears and Grizzlies are closely enough related that they can crossbreed and have had fertile offspring.
Being in a group doesn’t matter much if a bear decides to crash through your tent.
Well, there were 5 of us all together. That’s definitely a lot safer. And it wasn’t just like me, my wife and a few little kids. It was 5 grown ass men with bear spray.
And I think the idea is the bears are less likely to crash through your tent if you’re in a group, not that we would beat them off. Though…
https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/man-kills-grizzly-with-hands-and-teeth