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Post by Tess on Nov 14, 2003 13:52:36 GMT -5
Are you saying that sweet tea is tea sweetened with sugar while the tea is hot as opposed to iced tea that is tea that is sweetened after it is chilled? I've tasted both then, don't like either.
Tess
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Post by ThezeThreeWordz on Nov 14, 2003 13:57:13 GMT -5
I'm a southern guy (without the accent), so I've got an addiction for Kool-Aid (black cherry) and sweet tea  ... but give me fruit punch. |
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Post by tdallasw on Nov 14, 2003 14:10:28 GMT -5
Tess... sweet tea is known as the "House Wine of the South". Whenever I go north of the Mason-Dixon line, I have a hard time finding any restaurants that serve sweet tea. It is IMPOSSIBLE to truly dissolve sugar or Equal/Sweet & Low in tea once in it cold. You have to sweeten it right after you brew the tea... then chill/ice it down. In most restaurants in the South you have to ASK for unsweetened tea... it's just not NORMAL.  |
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Post by Ebony on Nov 14, 2003 14:23:07 GMT -5
Tess... sweet tea is known as the "House Wine of the South". Whenever I go north of the Mason-Dixon line, I have a hard time finding any restaurants that serve sweet tea. It is IMPOSSIBLE to truly dissolve sugar or Equal/Sweet & Low in tea once in it cold. You have to sweeten it right after you brew the tea... then chill/ice it down. In most restaurants in the South you have to ASK for unsweetened tea... it's just not NORMAL. tdallasw... I beg to differ. A friend taught me years ago that if you dissolve 1 packet of Sweet & Low in a glass of iced tea it immediatley sweetens it. No need to continuously stir, like you have to do with a regular sugar packet. It works like a charm. But it still doesn't come close to the taste of Southern Sweet Tea. |
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 14, 2003 14:24:09 GMT -5
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 14, 2003 14:26:55 GMT -5
A person could get arrested down here for doing such a thing Tess!! :shocked What in the heck is that?! Is that some kind of Devil spice!?? If the Tempts had been raised putting this Sweet and Low you speak of in their tea, do you think they would have become the Emperors of Soul!!!! Of course not!!!!  |
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 14, 2003 14:37:31 GMT -5
oh .......... and another thing .......... it is also ILLEGAL in the South to drink iced tea in anything smaller than a 32oz glass ........... that succer's gotta be BIG!!!
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Post by Ebony on Nov 14, 2003 14:39:58 GMT -5
What in the heck is that?! Is that some kind of Devil spice!?? If the Tempts had been raised putting this Sweet and Low you speak of in their tea, do you think they would have become the Emperors of Soul!!!! Of course not!!!! Hey, I didn't say it tasted all that good, but when you have no other choice, you have to do what you have to do! They don't serve sweet tea in restaurants here up North. |
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 14, 2003 14:43:31 GMT -5
I don't get it ............ didn't folks BRING that practice up there when they moved?
My sympathies Ebony for having to live in such an uncivilized society. ;D
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Post by Tess on Nov 14, 2003 15:42:27 GMT -5
What do you all call soft drinks where you live?
In this part of WV we call it a coke as in....."While you are at the store would you please pick me up some coke?" "What kind of coke do you want?" "How about a six pack of Pepsi and a six pack of Sprite." A soda here is a fountain drink made with ice cream and club soda. And pop is what some folks call their dad.
Then there is sack, poke (sp), and bag........
The differences in corn bread.......white SR corn meal with buttermilk placed in an iron skillet that has been heated on top of the stove with some canola oil in it so that when you put the batter in it sizzles, the baked at 425 until done.
Tess
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 14, 2003 15:44:16 GMT -5
Yep Tess ......... it's all coke ............ that's why we like to include our good brothers and sisters from West Virginia as "southerners" I have a friend from Chicago who SWEARS that we southerners just say "coke" and the server knows exactly what we want, be it Pepsi or Mountain Dew or whatever. |
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Post by Ebony on Nov 14, 2003 16:40:01 GMT -5
Around these parts, we've always referred to soft drinks as 'soda.' I've never heard of anyone calling it all coke. That's interesting!  Why in the world would you call an orange soda a coke. Hmmm..... P.S. All that talk about sweet tea sent me right to Checkers. It was very tasty too! |
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 14, 2003 16:46:53 GMT -5
Why in the world would you call an orange soda a coke. 'cause that's what it is!!!
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Post by selfishreasons on Nov 14, 2003 16:54:38 GMT -5
Why in the world would you call an orange soda a coke. 'cause that's what it is!!! It;s only coke if you are snorting it, Ivory. |
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Post by Ebony on Nov 14, 2003 16:57:34 GMT -5
An orange soft drink by no means is a cola drink:
Main Entry: Coke
Pronunciation: 'kOk
Function: trademark
-- used for a cola drink
Main Entry: Cola
Pronunciation: 'kO-l&
Function: noun
Etymology: from Coca-Cola, a trademark
Date: 1920
: a carbonated soft drink colored usually with caramel and flavored usually with extracts from kola nuts
Think about it Ivory, it just doesn't make much sense to call an orange soft drink a coke. C'mon.
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Why in the world would you call an orange soda a coke. Hmmm.....