๐ง Why Americans Love Ice Water
์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ผ์๋ฌผ์ ์ข์ํ ๊น?
One big shock for many Americans traveling abroad is how hard it might be to get ice water. In pretty much every restaurant in the States, your water and beverages are automatically served with ice. Even when you visit a friend at home, most people will ask if you'd like ice in your drink.
ํด์ธ์ฌํ์ ํ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ด ์ผ์๋ฌผ ๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋ ต๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๊ณค ํด์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์๋น์์๋ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ ์๋ฃ๊ฐ ์๋์ผ๋ก ์ผ์๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋์์. ์น๊ตฌ ์ง์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ์ ๋๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์๋ฃ์ ์ผ์์ ๋ฃ์ด์ค์ง ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณด์ฃ .
Some of this habit is rooted in history. In the 19th century, there was a booming ice trade in America. Blocks of ice were shipped across the country and quickly became a symbol of modernity and sophistication. Later, as technology developed, America was one of the first countries to widely adopt iceboxes and refrigerators. Ice was no longer a luxury item but a daily necessity.
์ด๋ฌํ ์ต๊ด์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๋ฟ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ์์ด์. 19์ธ๊ธฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ผ์ ๋ฌด์ญ์ด ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ฒ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ์๋ฉ์ด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ก๋์๊ณ , ํ๋์ฑ๊ณผ ์ธ๋ จ๋จ์ ์์ง์ด ๋์์ด์. ์ดํ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๋ฐ์ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์ด์ค๋ฐ์ค์ ๋์ฅ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์ต์ด์ ๋๋ผ ์ค ํ๋๊ฐ ๋์์ด์. ์ผ์์ ๋ ์ด์ ์ฌ์นํ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ผ์์ ํ์ํ์ด ๋์์ฃ .
While Americans felt that ice made drinks refreshing and even more elegant, other countries built very different traditions. In East Asia, many people believed cold drinks were bad for digestion and preferred tea or room-temperature water. In much of Europe, ice was often seen as a way to dilute drinks and ruin the intended flavor. Because of this, many cultures came to associate warmth with comfort, while Americans grew to associate cold with quality.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์ผ์์ด ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ณ ๋ ์ธ๋ จ๋๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ผ์ง๋ง, ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋ผ๋ค์ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ํต์ ํ์ฑํ์ด์. ๋์์์์์๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ฐฌ ์๋ฃ๊ฐ ์ํ์ ๋์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ , ์ฐจ๋ ์ค์จ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ํธํ์ด์. ์ ๋ฝ์ ๋ง์ ์ง์ญ์์๋ ์ผ์์ด ์๋ฃ์ ๋ง์ ์
๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ๋ณธ๋์ ํ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ํด์น๋ ์์๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ฃ . ์ด๋ฐ ์ด์ ๋ก ๋ง์ ๋ฌธํ๊ถ์์๋ ๋ฐ๋ปํจ์ ํธ์ํจ๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ง์์ด์. ๋ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์์ ํ์ง๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ง์ด ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์.
Taking all of these reasons into account, itโs no surprise that ice became part of American identity. Today, a glass of ice water is more than just a drink, itโs a small symbol of American culture, one that sets the U.S. apart every time travelers order water abroad.
์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด, ์ผ์์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ์ผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ํ ๋๋ผ์ด ์ผ์ด ์๋์์. ์ค๋๋ ์ผ์๋ฌผ ํ ์์ ๋จ์ํ ์๋ฃ ๊ทธ ์ด์์ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์์ด์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์์ ์์ง์ผ๋ก, ์ฌํ์๋ค์ด ํด์ธ์์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ฃผ๋ ์์์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค. |