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Americans, what is something that Europeans have/do that makes no sense to you? (programming.dev)

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[-] beefcat@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No ice in their water or soda
No refills on fountain drinks

These are the things that stood out to me whenever I have visited.

I spent a good while in Berlin once and one of my favorite restaurants was this Australian themed place by the IMAX theater just because I could get a nice big Diet Coke with ice in it. Their kangaroo sandwich also wasn’t half bad.

[-] Onionizer@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

McDonalds did refills for a while but then stopped again, idk why ¯\(ツ)/¯

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know for Germany but free soda refills are illegal in France

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Why?

Why does France seemingly propose/executes the worst and/or weirdest things.

This is almost on this level: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago

Because sugary drink are one of the leading cause of obesity, so rather than inciting people and children to drink more soda it's much healthier to offer free water and paid drinks.

With the same idea vending machines with soda or sugary snacks are not allowed in schools anymore.

On the other hand everything that France government is doing around internet and privacy law is pure nonsense, I agree with that.

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