I’m bothered way more than I should be by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons’s confession last week that he puts ice cubes in the milk for his cereal. And he’s not doing it for publicity – his son Nick claims he has watched him do it for 30 years!
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why anyone would want to water down their milk with ice cubes. I would never put an ice cube in a glass of milk. If I wanted cold cereal I’d turn up the temperature on the refrigerator so the milk gets colder. I’d make milk ice cubes in the freezer. I’d put my cereal bowl in the freezer and take it out in the morning.
Beer and wine are the same as milk to me. A chilled can or a chilled glass is all you need. You’re sabotaging the vintner or the brewmaster’s careful recipe by throwing a chunk of ice in there that’s going to water down the product.
Widely acceptable these days is ice in mixed drinks and in pop. I get that, but I still prefer a frozen bottle of hard liquor poured into a frosty chilled glass in the case of mixed drinks.
What rules, if any, do you have for which drinks get ice?
