To think it's weird serving all drinks at room temp and no ice

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Mil does this. She leaves drinks in the gaurage overnight then brings them all inside during the morning.

Then acts like I'm being crazy for wanting to but a bottle in the freezer for half an hour or asking for ice as "they've been in the guarage all night so are cold" they aren't cold at all - next to the oven and in the warm kitchen for hours.

Um... I prefer my drinks at room temperature and I’m pretty sure I’m not old enough to be any of your mothers...

I chill them if I’m expecting guests right enough, if I remember to...

My ExPIL left soft drinks out and wouldn't refrigerate them. As a non drinker who likes to have Diet Coke instead of wine/g&t/beer it used to annoy me a bit. If I filled an ice cube tray and put it in the freezer ExMIL would immediately rush into the kitchen announcing I needed some "help" (wtf?!) and make a huge faff of moving a few bags of frozen peas around to the point it just wasn't worth the fuss. I keep my Diet Coke in the fridge at home and I enjoy it when I drink it!

There are very few drinks that I enjoy chilled and even fewer that I would like with ice in. Bleugh!
However I do understand that other people do like it.

My mum does this.

The worst part of all is that she doesn't drink alcohol herself, but entertains a lot and serves beer, wine, etc. I feel so sorry for the unsuspecting guests 🤢

We had a meal out before Christmas and for the first time ever, I complained and sent my white wine back. It was lukewarm and clearly straight from the shelf, hadn't been chilled at all.

I wonder why?

I'm looking at coke ads from the 60s and they all say to serve ice cold and have images of a fridge

I think my mil is deliberately taking my tonic water out of the fridge and putting it next to a radiator on purpose

Surely everybody knows you put one to chill in the fridge? Even if you don't have space (such as at Xmas) you would find a bucket and some ice

Wow I think we do this. Its never occured to me to put drinks in the fridge. We'd put milk in the fridge, and keep juice in the fridge once opened - but we would initially have it on a shelf before opening.

Dont really buy fizzy drinks but a 2litre bottle wouldnt fit in the fridge so lives next to a cupboard if we bought one. Surely it wouldnt fit in anyones fridge?

Hmmm. We're obviously odd!!! We mainky drink red wine, baileys and himself cans of real ale. But Even G and T on the odd occasion we wouldnt have thought to chill. We didnt buy it cold....oops . Never was growing up (as it seems for many here) so never really questuoned it. I wouldnt have a problem with it cold just dont really notice/mind either way.

Well, I'm an old gimmer, and .can only say that all this sounds HORRID

However, houses generally were much colder back in the day and you'd store drinks in e.g. the understairs pantry which kept them nice and cool, but not ice-cold, iyswim. We're very lucky and have a terrace with cellars which is excellent for drinks. DP would have conniptions if you served him a nice traditional beer chilled - and, quite right, too

And I wouldn't really like to go back to the days of really cold houses (frost on the inside of the windows and chilblains - no thanks!) but I tend to find a lot of places too hot now.

And ice in our house has always been an ice tray until more recent fridge freezer with an ice tray section...

Ive never in my life bought ice.... I didnt think people did apart from for weddings etc!

Well it says on the back of the bottle so serve them chilled.

I'd rather just have water as that's ok at room temp. Not wasting claories on anything else

Sorry - lots of x-posts.

After years of no ice when we visited my ILs got this ice cube bottle out of retirement.

Worst.Ever.

It takes up more space than a normal ice cube tray and, if it's not 100% flat, you end up with one big lump that you can't get out.
We spent hours smashing it on the floor , driving a knife into it etc all for a couple of shards of ice.

Next time I'll take the advice on this thread and we'll buy a bag of ice from their nearest supermarket on our way to theirs.

(PS....and it looks like a bottle male patients piss in in hospital)

We live somewhere so hot that even the red wine lives in the fridge

Warm drinks, yeuch. Unless it’s supposed to be a hot beverage, all drinks in this house are cold. We have a separate fridge just for drinks and anything that doesn’t fit, at this time of year, is in a plastic box outside. Cordial/dilutable drinks aren’t kept chilled but the water added has to be cold. Justkeepswimming 2 litre bottles fit fine in my fridge, never had an issue with them. Most drinks actually have ‘best served chilled’ printed on the label or can. Who on earth would drink a warm lager, bleurgh.

Im wondering what we should chill. We really dont drink much that isnt tea/coffee. Sometimes red wine and his bottles of whatever he drinks but I dont think is supposed to be chilled.

Maybe its because we dont drink cold type drinks?

We dont drink larger. Or really fizzy drinks!

I think even red wine is best still chilled for an hour in the fridge and not exactly at room temp. But I'm no expert

This thread is shedding light on why every fridge seems to have an ice maker thing on the front of it when I want one without it. Also why I'm forever fishing ice out of drinks ordered in cafes and restaurants if I forget to specify no ice. I don't think I'm a chilled drinks person.

Like pp, I'm not sure what it is eveyone is chilling really. Just fizzy pop and white wine?

I remember going to my grandparent's as a child of the 80's and being allowed a short squat glass of stale, warm, flat, syrupy R-Whites Lemonade which I swear had been untouched between Christmas visits.

It actually tasted dusty. Happy memories.

Enid - its not just me then! Ewe dont drink white wine (but would chill it if we had it!) Or fizzy very rarely. Kids squash is just concentrate and tap water.

We dont really have drinks you would chill. But im probabky offending people who do!

Went to sister’s house for Christmas drinks and was given room temperature gin and tonic with no ice either. They were drinking g&t too, so must enjoy a warm drink. It was really minging and a waste of calories.

Justkeep Well now we know. I don't drink anything except hot choc, juice or water so that's probably why. DH will chill his beer if he's having one. I suppose I used to like my vodka with ice and really cold (years ago) but haven't thought about it since then.

I have never carried a water bottle around because if I drink water it has to be icy cold or preferably with ice.

Do people keep gin in their fridge then? Or just the tonic?