Yeah, it does. Thats because we arent too keen these days on teaching social history.

Refrigerators only started to become commonplace 100 years ago. Before that we had to use ice boxes to keep things like meat and dairy cold, and those didnt even exist for 100 years before that point. So, you have to think that we are talking about 200-300 years before household refrigeration methods would even exist. We couldnt just make ice, we had to get it from somewhere it already was. Remember the opening scene from Frozen where they sawed ice blocks out of a lake? Not just done for a cool scene, ice harvesting use to be an actual profession. Then you just need to acknowledge that Canada is the largest landmass that will have year round ice, so thats where they got it from.

Sounds a lot more believable now, doesnt it?

They did, but the guy trying to convince people to put ice in their drinks could only harvest it from North America.

Well, first a guy had to convince people that drinks tasted better with ice in them. That same guy also tried to transport ice across the ocean. So he had a limited amount of time to try and sell a limited amount of ice and hope it would catch on. It wasnt that Europe didnt like ice, it was just an inconvenience to get it there

This was also the case for a large amount of Europe, and good amount of it would melt before reaching its destination.

Actually because of this, putting ice in drinks never took off in Europe the same way it did in America. This is why most parts of Europe prefer their drinks served at room temperature, whereas North America prefers cold drinks.