To all the southern boys......

nolaegghead

In New Orleans, they ask if you want sweet or unsweetened.   We're not regular South here.

Toxarch

Texas is sweet or unsweet. Maybe there's a bunch of diabetics.

MaskedMarvel

Were these MAGIC GRITS!??!!

DoubleEgger

In the eyes of Southerners, any person who drinks unsweetened tea is a commie 

mick7607

For youse guys that don't like grits, you've obviously never had the divine pleasure of eating breakfast at The Sea Cow on Edisto Island, SC. Best. Grits. Ever.

TexanOfTheNorth

Grew up in Texas and never put sugar or lemon in my iced tea. And, grits should be served with a little butter, black pepper and tabasco sauce.

Jstroke

I am from the north originally and a tried and true Yankee. iced tea is made from good stout english black tea. It is brewed and chilled without adding ice. Then when served it is poured over ice. Sugar is optional and those who use it have simply not yet cultivated their taste buds. Most people over 25 dont use sugar. This is from simple observation. But it is rare to have sweet tea offered in a restaurant. I ordered iced tea the first time in the south and was served sweet tea. I think for those that like it sweet, it makes perfect sense to add sugar while the tea is hot so that it dissolves. To me it tastes like dirty simple syrup. 

DoubleEgger

Gotta love the South 

Fred19Flintstone

DaveRichardson said:

There re is no other tea in the south other than sweet tea. Anything else is carpet bagging Yankee filth. 

That is funny!  It got a good laugh.  Great line!  

DoofusOfTheDay

DoubleEgger said:

In the eyes of Southerners, any person who drinks unsweetened tea is a commie 

And we tell them to please proceed directly to I-75 and take that North for about 15-20 hours.

lousubcap

Why deal with tea regardless of the mix when you can have bourbon or other adult beverages?  Seems like there are more than acceptable alternatives especially when a BGE adult beverage fueled cook is on the menu.  FWIW-

Nanook

DoubleEgger said:

Gotta love the South 

This stuff is awesome! I live on it when I'm visiting Florida. 

DoubleEgger

And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 

buzd504

nolaegghead said:

In New Orleans, they ask if you want sweet or unsweetened.   We're not regular South here.

I think sweet tea only made it into the city in the last couple of years.  Frickin transplants.

Zippylip

Growing up (Philadelphia burbs) my mom would boil a pot of water & dissolve sugar in it, then shut it off & toss in a bunch of tea bags & forget about it for a while.  Once cool it went into a pitcher & into the fridge to be served later either as-is or over ice.

We called it iced tea.

Not until many years later when I bought an egg & joined the forum did I realize that the south laid claim to this highly complex top secret invention & called it ‘sweet tea’. 

But after most of a life-time of drinking it exactly that way, I grew weary of the sugar/water/tea nastiness & I guess the yankee genes took over, can’t stand it sweet anymore

Dyal_SC

Currently sippin on some sweet tea on my way up north.  Gotta get it in while I still can.  

Hi54putty

I live in NC and order unsweet tea here. When I travel to other parts of the country I order iced tea...which is the same thing. 

henapple

Most of us southerners don't consider Texas the south... The west. Louisiana or Florida either. 

DaveRichardson

Fred19Flintstone said:

DaveRichardson said:

There re is no other tea in the south other than sweet tea. Anything else is carpet bagging Yankee filth. 

That is funny!  It got a good laugh.  Great line!  

Thank you. It'll probably be added to my signature like at some point!

Hunter1881

That's what I hate most about road trips. Never know when you will get sweet tea. 

Legume

Growing up in California, I always ordered 'iced tea' which only meant one thing until all of the mango infused crap started.  Regular, unsweetened tea over ice.  After traveling to NC for years for work, I learned that there is no iced tea, there is only tea, which is sweet, or maybe unsweet tea if you find an understanding restaurant.  In Texas they seem to split the difference.  I can order iced tea or unsweet tea or sweet tea.  If I order iced tea, they ask sweet or unsweet.

tarheelmatt

DoubleEgger said:

And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 

Cough, cough

Fred19Flintstone

tarheelmatt said:

DoubleEgger said:

And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 

Cough, cough

I like bird watching.  Hark!  That sounds like the forlorn call of the NORTH American Tarheeled Wannabee!!  What a sad cry it is.  I will keep watching to see if his neighbors will cheer him up or tell him to shut up!  Standing by...

Botch

Legume said:

Growing up in California, I always ordered 'iced tea' which only meant one thing until all of the mango infused crap started. 

 
I despise fruit/flavored teas (raspberry is big around here).  That's not tea, it's koolaid.  

DoubleEgger

tarheelmatt said:

DoubleEgger said:

And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 

Cough, cough

I lived in NC for six years. I stand by my earlier statement. 

Wolfpack

Firemanyz said:

On a side note not to high jack the thread but a few years back we took an RV trip to Jacksonville to watch Maryland in the gator bowl. We made it to Savannah for last call and had a great night. When we got moving the next day we went to a bob Evans or Cracker Barrel (can't remember which one it was) for breakfast I tried to order scrapple. I was way hung over and needed something good to straighten me up. Waitress looked at me and said "I'm not sure what you are talking about but we don't have that".  I looked at her and said stop fu##ing with me I just want some scrapple. Then one of my friends looked at me and said they don't know about scrapple here. So I had to apologize and order bacon. I then told that below NC scrapple is an unknown thing to them. Man they just don't know what they are missing. 

What's scrapple

Hatfield1977

I grew up outside Philly, went to school in North Philly, but by the grace of god have been in the south for the last 16 years. My kids are devastated when we go back up north, they don't know what to drink. The tea isn't what they know, but at least they can hit a Chick-fil-A until they get back home.

Neese's sausage makes a liver mush that can pass for scrapple in a pinch...

theyolksonyou

Hatfield1977 said:

I grew up outside Philly, went to school in North Philly, but by the grace of god have been in the south for the last 16 years. My kids are devastated when we go back up north, they don't know what to drink. The tea isn't what they know, but at least they can hit a Chick-fil-A until they get back home.

Neese's sausage makes a liver mush that can pass for scrapple in a pinch...

Hee, hee, you said devastated. 

onedbguru

I saw an actual recipe for sweet tea:

Tea bags
1gal water
4 cups of sugar.
Boil water, add sugar until dissolved, add tea bags and let steep for an hour or so.

(directions are a bit iffy, but the ingredients are accurate.)

Wolfpack

DoubleEgger said:

tarheelmatt said:

DoubleEgger said:

And as a FYI, real Southerners are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The rest are just wannabes. 

Cough, cough

I lived in NC for six years. I stand by my earlier statement. 

Dude-  you are from Atlanta.  Hardly what I'd call the typical Deep South.