Like stacking Ice Trays when they are not frozen yet,
Who would have thought that such a simple thing could be turned into a royal pain in the tuchus. But its true my friends, I was talking to one of my longest running stalkers on facebook chat today and she had this problem. You see the Israelis never figured out how to make ice trays that can stack before they were frozen- so people have to get their ice trays from elsewhere, and we thought the Israelis were technologically advanced.
27 responses so far ↓
1 dov // Jun 17, 2008 at 8:58 pm
funny, i just moved back form israel 2 weeks ago, i went today and bought ice trays here in the US and of course they stack, i realized this same thing that in 5 years in israel i never had stackable trays!
2 Mikeinmidwood // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I am dont understand how they dont stack. someone please explain.
3 utubefan // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Too busy with nanotechnology.
4 Anonymous // Jun 17, 2008 at 11:45 pm
if u chat with stalkers, r they really stalkers?
5 Nemo // Jun 17, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Dude, Israeli’s can’t make any plastic ware that doesn’t bend or crumble. Oh, and they don’t have frikking cream cheese.
6 Lion of Zion // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:27 am
what do you expect from people who used to drink milk out of plastic bags.
7 Hadassah // Jun 18, 2008 at 6:49 am
i never knew israeli ice trays dont stack
how could they not?
its gonna bother me all day now
8 Chavi // Jun 18, 2008 at 7:34 am
I think that in an instance like this, visuals are absolutely necessary.
9 Shevers // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:09 am
I think the milk in plastic bags is brilliant and space saving.
This is true. The bagel people I knew in Israel had to make their own cream cheese.
10 heshman // Jun 18, 2008 at 10:39 am
Cream Cheese costs more then the bagels in Israel and its just not very good. Why is that? I feel like Israelis have loads of dairy products.
11 anon // Jun 18, 2008 at 11:38 am
I live in J-m and they have had pretty good cream cheese on the market for a few years now. Plus, my israeli fridge has the best ice cube trays ever - there are two trays that sit on a little rack with a basket underneath. there is this mechanism that flips the cubes out into the basket, so i always have tons of ice and i never run out.
12 dov // Jun 18, 2008 at 1:39 pm
btw, they do have awesome cream cheese there, the name has slipped my mind, but i would go to the bagel joint and buy tons of bagels and put cream chese on at home, saved about 75 percent over the bagel joints prices, and the cream cheese only costs 10 shek for a tub and comes with a decent amount
13 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Holy Bagel in Jerusalem rocks but a tuna sandwich with everything is cheaper then cream cheese.
14 mother in israel // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Hey, we still drink milk from the plastic bags. Well, not directly, but you know what I mean. And my ice cube trays don’t stack–we had icicles last week. But it never happened before. You know, they do stack when they’re empty so they take us less room to store. So there.
15 heshman // Jun 18, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hey nothing wrong with milk from bags- except for this whole movement that claims plastic causes cancer.
16 Ruth2 // Jun 18, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I am totally confused and agree with Chavi, I need visuals.
I live in the US and my plastic ice trays don’t stack, I have to place them side by side.
How do you stack ice trays?
I prefer the older metal ice trays that had the lever so you could easily pull the ice of the trays.
Milk in bags????
????
Please post of pic. I don’t get it lol.
17 heimish in bp // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:56 am
If you look at the two bottom ends of a “normal american” ice tray you will see a little piece of plastic jutting out from the bottom, on all four corners of the tray, so when you put one tray on top of another, the top tray rests on the side bar of the bottom tray, via those little pieces of plastic that stick out.
Oh and milk in bags. every household in Israel had two tall narrow pitchers/containers with a handle. One for red and one for blue. 3% or 99. and the milk comes in plastic bags. Like you might have seen croutons come in, or big bags of splenda, or pretzel chips, the kind of has a flat round bottom, with a straight top, adn you would drop these bags into these pitchers, and snip the top corner of the bag, and pour. I was always amazed that the the whole bag doesnt slip out.
18 heshman // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:14 am
The only comparison in America to milk in bags are those little baggy juice box things from Capri Sun- they are bagged juice boxes.
19 heimish in bp // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:16 am
Hesh regards from the Delaware Water Gap - Bushkill. Great hiking but got caught in the pouring rain. Had a blast.
20 Chavi // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:17 am
Actually, I was at a store this past weekend in Indiana and they had bags of water for sale with little straws a la Capri Sun. But the thing was, the bags were with no defined shape, just little bags of water. I can’t imagine trying to drink out of them. Stupidest. Idea. EVER!
21 Toronto Yid // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:11 pm
We’ve had bagged milk in Canada for decades! What Israelis don’t have is the cool little doodad that clips to the side of the container that holds the bag with a little blade to cut off the tip of the bag.
Also had a little magnet to stick it on the fridge. In Israel everyone tries to cut the bag with a knife of chew the end off, usually spilling milk all over!
22 Toronto Yid // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:12 pm
My son made a small fortune (very small) importing these to his yeshiva when he spent the year.
23 mother in israel // Jun 19, 2008 at 11:11 pm
TY: I want one of those! But we simply keep a pair of scissors in the kitchen.
24 heshman // Jun 20, 2008 at 7:15 am
Is the reason they don’t have cartons in Israel because of a lack of trees? Will this bagged milk thing change as they start to discover that plastic causes cancer “supposedly”
25 mother in israel // Jun 20, 2008 at 7:19 am
Hesh, I’m no expert but it seems that heating causing the leaching of the BPAs. Milk in cartons is widely available now too.
26 mother in israel // Jun 20, 2008 at 7:21 am
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080130.wlbottle30/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home
27 Toronto Yid // Jun 20, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Mother in Israel
Email me with your address at info at sizeofisrael.com and I’ll mail you a couple!
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