We don’t store our soda in the fridge, so I use ice on the rare times I drink soda, or for when I make alcoholic drinks (usually a ____ & Coke). I actually LIKE that it waters down soda because otherwise they’re too carbonated for them to be comfortable to me. I don’t put ice in my water because we have cold water in the door of the fridge.
U.S. No ice, please.
Non-US - only when it’s hot.
So when I was living in Scotland I didn’t even own an ice tray…
UK - at home I rarely use ice as such, but do have a habit of plonking bottles or cans of drink in the freezer for about an hour before opening them. When out, I usually have ice.
US expatriate. No ice, primarily for the watering down factor. Do get it occasionally when ordering a soft drink with dinner (actually only at one bar I can think of, and that’s with a bottled drink). Started doing that years ago back in the States, so my current European sojourn has nothing to do with it.
US, here. Almost always put ice in my drinks.
Non-American; Ice is only for spirits or mixed alcoholic drinks and when I’ve forgotten to put the soft drink in the fridge.
I don’t like iece.Yes, the drink is colder if you put ice in it, but it gets watered down way too quickly. Only drinks that are essentially water anyways get a pass.
I’m the only one in my family, or the only person I’ve met, who does not like ice in their drinks, though. Well, at least, I’m the only one who cares enough to always order things without ice.
At home, for water, soda, and mixed drinks (booze) I fill the glass to the top with ice, give it a few good shakes to let the ice settle a bit and then put more ice in until it’s full to the top again.
Mostly I drink water, so this technique ends giving me a time-release beverage of cold water. I usually don’t refill until the glass is completely empty, meaning all the ice melted and got drank.
I find soda too strong, so the ice helps to cut it, and I like my booze strong, so all the ice helps to limit the mixer.
Aussie. I never add ice to drinks. If I order a bourbon and coke I have it without ice. Extra cold just leeches flavor out of things.
Spain. I like my soda cold but I dislike the watering-down; I have both a freezable mug and plastic “ice cubes”, so at home I may use that mug or pop one non-watering-down cube but it’s a “may”, I only do it if part of my reason to have that drink is “I need to cool down”; in bars, I prefer places which use one or two ice cubes tops and have been known to tell the people in McD’s “if it isn’t against corporate policy, I’d like my Coke to have more Coke than ice, please” - they usually respond by laughing, nodding and giving me a Coke which actually manages to taste like Coke (Spanish fast food places now have the icemakers that pop lots of little cubes, instead of the old huge cubes).
US - if I could tap an iceberg and have it always magically appear in my glass in small chunks I would.
My favorite beverage is water from my well in a glass full to the brim of ice. My well water tastes amazingly clear - it comes through 175 feet of limestone and granite.
US. I use ice, and lots of it. When my husband makes me a glass of iced tea, he always says, “Ok. You want that with a lot of ice, and a little tea, right?”
Hells bells, I even put ice in my wretched (I don’t like milk) milk. I refuse to drink milk (or even chocolate milk) without ice.
US - no ice unless I’m drinking water.
US. Ice if possible. I even put two cubes in my milk.
Germany, no ice. I like my cold drinks refrigerator-cold but not ice-cold.
Canada, don’t care for ice. I used to ask for “Coke, no ice” at McDonalds; now I just don’t order soda at fast food restaurants at all. I’ve even gotten used to drinking canned soda at room temperature.
But I’m still not as anti-ice as some of my Chinese friends who make a point of always refusing ice when they get water at a restaurant. They believe that cold drinks are bad for your health.
American, don’t use ice at home; I don’t own ice cube trays, nor have an ice maker, nor buy bags of ice. I do put a little bit of ice in self-serve fountain drinks, since fountain drinks are often tepid or slightly cooled, and don’t bother requesting “no ice” at restaurants, since they’re usually serving soda from a fountain or water from a tap.
I’d think Americans would be okay with no ice more often; we consume single-serving containers of drinks all the time (cans, PET bottles, etc.) that are easily chilled but not easily iced.
Some of my Asian friends tell me they prefer their drinks without ice because, growing up, it wasn’t generally safe to drink the tapwater and that’s what icecubes were made of.
US - lots of ice.