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> Also curious: Selling ice cream in winter? I live in a tropical country, and it's quite common to drink hot tea in the heat of summer, to help one cool down.
by markdown 3y ago
> Also curious: Selling ice cream in winter?
I live in a tropical country, and it's quite common to drink hot tea in the heat of summer, to help one cool down.
Perhaps the opposite effect works in the cold regions of the world.
- alvarezbjm-hn 3y ago"I live in a tropical country, and it's quite common to drink hot tea in the heat of summer, to help one cool down" I can vouch for the veracity of that claim. Some members of my family drink hot coffee to cool down. (I drink frosted diet coke)
- cubefox 3y agoThis sounds rather counterintuitive. It seems to imply drinking hot drinks in winter would make you even colder, not warmer, which doesn't seem true. But this source indeed claims drinking hot tea under certain conditions can cause rather strong sweating, more than compensating the effect of the hot drink: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on...
- Klaster_1 3y agoNever heard of "eating cold in winter warms you up" while growing up in Siberia. We had an ice cream factory in my town, which sold cheap and delicious ice cream all year round in very ubiquitous ice cream stands, my neighborhood had four of these. All the kids I knew used to buy ice cream all year round, I remember eating a can when it was -25c outside.
- cubefox 3y agoThat sounds tough, especially as kids.
- turbo_fart 3y agoThey had an ice cream factory in their town. Sounds great
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> Never heard of "eating cold in winter warms you up" "Science and Life" reprinted some article on a comparison between a sandwich and an ice cream for the useful energy output in a cold environment. Guess you missed it. *grin*
- pavel_lishin 3y agoIt doesn't. It just tastes good!