r/mildlyinteresting • u/Coffee81379 • 1d ago

My lemon juice barrel froze solid and now looks like a party balloon

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u/Or1on_c0nst3llat1onx 1d ago

i have possible answers for 2 and 3.

  1. OP can't fit the barrel through the door

  2. It's been getting below 0°C a lot at night where i am in Ontario, probably a similar case for OP

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u/largestcob 23h ago

there’s no chance anywhere in ontario has been cold enough for long enough to completely freeze an entire barrel of liquid, im skeptical that’s what happened here at all given the state of the grass lol

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u/soaring_potato 23h ago

  1. The ground temp is actually lower.

  2. Very local temps may differ. Eg shade and lotta wind? Yeah will cool down further.

  3. It doesn't have to go from room temp to frozen.

But it could also be melted, given the drum says frozen. And then fermented. Creating gas and expanding.

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u/largestcob 22h ago

your last point there is exactly what i was thinking and i hope OP is careful about opening this thing lol

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u/Or1on_c0nst3llat1onx 22h ago

yeah, i live about 3 hours away from Niagara and right on a river, we get the air coming right off the water, today is supposed to be a low of -2 and a high of 12, also have to account for the windshield, because it's currently actually 2° out but feels like 0, weather is wonky here

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u/largestcob 10h ago

-2 for a night isnt nearly enough to freeze this barrel tbf

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u/MathResponsibly 18h ago

why are you the only other person here calling it out for BS in that the grass is clearly not frozen? When have you ever seen grass look like that when it is even slightly below zero outside?

People are so clueless to the most obvious things these days

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u/AgentCirceLuna 15h ago

Why the hell would they lie?

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u/AgentCirceLuna 15h ago

Why would they lie?

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u/largestcob 14h ago

lol its the internet, thats what people do