I swear by ice because, really, when is a drink not made better by being colder. And if you were going to say coffee or cappuccinos, sorry friend but Tim Horton’s has made those better too by adding ice.
Everyone should use ice and I think I can make a pretty convincing argument that anyone who doesn’t use ice on a regular basis is lazy. Yep, I used the L-word. If you don’t use ice then you are most likely a pretty lazy person. I won’t say useless because perhaps you are still contributing something to society with your iceless ways but I can bet that in a pinch you’d be hard-pressed to tell me what that was.
See, ice is great but it requires work as well and those lacking in dedication or a strong Protestant work ethic are least likely to find value in frozen water. These people are wrong and, like I said, simply lazy. Ice, by definition, is frozen and so some regular ice cube tray maintenance is required. You need to fill up that tray, you need to freeze it, and when you use all the ice in the tray, you need to replenish it. I find that for half-hearted ice users—the borderline lazy—the last step is the most difficult but I’d prefer frozen water to frozen air, thank you very much, so don’t put that tray back empty.
So ice requires work which is an immediate turn-off for the lazies among us. Ice is also a work out. Studies have shown that the body is actually forced to do work when drinking colder beverages. Through some process known only to scientists, and certainly not to me, the body has to actually heat up cold beverages in order to process them. So the consumption of cold drinks, cooled via ice, is actually a lot like exercise. What an easy way to shed those pounds! Another reason, of course, that those who do not understand or utilize ice on a regular basis are most likely exercise-hating lazy slugs. I rest my case.
Truly then, unless you hate doing work—in which case you are contributing nothing to society—or hate exercising—in which case you are a lazy bag of bones—then you have no excuse to not love ice. Ice is simply great.
Haha, oh Keith, out of work for only a handful of days and you’ve already clearly got too much time on your hands.
Did you know, if you don’t use your ice, it will eventually evaporate!
I’m going to have to say adding ice to a drink is not as good as you say. I do agree that a cold drink is good, but there’s a flaw in your approach. You’re simply advocating we water down our drinks and I find that unacceptable.
Sure if you drink it fast enough it might not be much, but it’s still some none-the-less. With the exception of water, I like my drinks to have flavour to them. You may say “well there needs to be a trade-off where coldness is more important than flavour” and to that I say you are wrong, as you see it’s possible to create a cold drink without watering it down.
By knowing the power of your freezer and some chemical properties of your favourite drinks you could place them into your freezer and bring them right to the brink of freezing, to then drink them.
What’s that you say, this may require knowing what you want to drink about an hour before you want to drink it? Well then I say you are the lazy one using the jury-rigged solution of your pathetic ice-cubes, not being able to fully experience the flavour AND coldness of a good drink.
If using ice rejects laziness does that make people with ice dispensers in their fridge masters of modern society? They represent the more highly evolved creature, a group not willing to compromise on convenience or temperature. They have seen the poor, huddled on their porches shirtless, sipping warm beverages and ruing the day they were born. They have seen the labour of the middle class as they struggle to keep the trays filled and the bills paid at the same time. They have seen rich, ridiculed and resented, having ice-filled drinks brought to them by the pool. Ice Dispeners have seen all this and they have said no, there is a better way.
Of course at my house we have an ice dispenser that has been broken for months. I wonder what that says about us?
I think all you Waterloo kids have too much time on your hands!
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