Ice Ice Baby, Too Cold, Too Cold

So, as a part of my international food sampling project, I stopped in at McDonald´s today, ordered zwei (2) cheeseburgers unt ein medium coca-cola with a lot of ice (bc if you don´t ask for a lot of ice, you´re bound to get only 2 or three small cubes), and I was informed that they don´t have ice TODAY. No ice, not today, no plans for ice anytime soon, and in any case, why are you asking for ice, the drinks are sort of cool, in a tepid kind of way, and after all, this is Germany, we don´t like ice, etc. etc. This no-ice policy is maddening. The first thing I will order when I get back is a large cup of ice. One really cool thing about this McD´s though is that you can get cheeseburgers for breakfast. That is an improvement over the American system. Unfortunately, like in the States, the service is kind of slow...also, unlike in the States the employees are allowed to wear jeans with the arches on the pockets. I will try to get a pic of this later.

In other news, we are covering a high-heel race today...the other day we covered bathtub races...I guess this is the time of year when people here like to do wacky races.