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Its the simple things we take for granted

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.

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  1. 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. Dude, Israeli’s can’t make any plastic ware that doesn’t bend or crumble. Oh, and they don’t have frikking cream cheese.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Hesh regards from the Delaware Water Gap – Bushkill. Great hiking but got caught in the pouring rain. Had a blast.

  11. 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!

  12. 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!

  13. My son made a small fortune (very small) importing these to his yeshiva when he spent the year.

  14. 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”

  15. Mother in Israel

    Email me with your address at info at sizeofisrael.com and I’ll mail you a couple!

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