• CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Is this one of those American things, or am I just ignorant?

    I’ve never changed, or heard about changing a water filter in the fridge 🤔😵‍💫 sounds like I’m living a unclean life…

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      3 months ago

      It really is weird. I guess from other comments that this is something about those fancy and expensive fridges that no normal people have with water dispenser on the door and ice sometimes… Maybe?

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        3 months ago

        At least 50% of American fridges do indeed have ice and filtered water dispensers built in and I think they’re great :) ice cold, delicious water any time of the day? Yes please.

        They’re not even that “fancy/expensive” as it’s fairly standard

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        3 months ago

        Wait…mnot only do y’all not have garbage disposers; you don’t have refrigerators with built in ice machines and water filters? That’s crazy. You you’re just stuck having to get ice from those little refillable trays?

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      3 months ago

      Does your fridge have plumbing + a water/ice dispenser in the door?

      A regular fridge obviously wouldn’t need cleaning of parts it doesn’t have.

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        3 months ago

        Ooooh that makes sende. No my fidge doesn’t, and I’ve never seen that IRL. It looks useful, when I want ice cubes I need to manually fill an ice tray/bag and put that in the freezer.

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          3 months ago

          I had no idea some countries didn’t have ice machines as a pretty much standard option. It’d be hard to even find a house built in the past 25 years that wasn’t pre-plumbed for a waterline for the fridge. I never really thought about it, before.

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      3 months ago

      Some fridges have a water/ice dispenser built into the door. Not all American fridges have it and it’s available in other markets too.

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      3 months ago

      US people have a fetish about ice cold drinks that’s not very common outside of their country.

      Like “the brits drink warm beer (6° instead of -2°), what kind of prehistoric shit is that⸘”