I almost never get McDonald's in the U.S., but since the concept of fountain soda - not to mention putting any visible amount of ice in a cup - is almost unknown here, I dropped by one after a long walk today.
First of all, when you order a soda, they assume you mean soda water. The fountain looks like it does in the U.S., only with a smaller, separate ice dispenser. I pushed to get some ice, and about 5 of the little McDonald's style cubelets came out.
I figured it was out of ice and reluctantly gave up. But no, what actually happens is that you push for your 5 cubelets, let it go, then push again to get anywhere from 3 to 7 more cubelets (in my limited observed dataset). I don't know if this is to frustrate customers into just not getting much ice, or an assumption that most of their customers only want a tiny algae bloom worth of ice on top of their drink. Either way, I'm onto their little game now.
Justin, love reading these posts. Germans typically do not like ice in their drinks. Remember, they don't even drink their beer cold. Hence, those little cubelets.
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