Posted on 06/15/2007 9:47:49 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
Dallas was the only place I ever drank unsweetened tea on a regular basis.
When I was at SMU, they never told me where they kept the sugar in the cafeteria, so I did without for two whole semesters and thought I had really “come of age.”
Look at me, I’m drinking no-sugar tea! (Then I found it the next year.)
The “house tea” at Café Expresses in Houston is a HUGE plastic glass (seems like a quart) of blackberry sweet tea, unlimited refills. I love it.
I squeeze the lemon wedge *completely* and throw it back in the tea. But, I *do* try to fish the seeds out with my teaspoon.
I drink my diet Cokes with lime and do the same thing with the lime wedge, except I love to suck all the good limey middle out of it first - dipped in sugar, if tablemates don’t care.
Have you actually *seen* a lightning bug anytime recently? I haven’t!
Lime and lemon wedges dredged with sugar are exquisite. Why ruin great lemonade or limeade with tea that would stun a horse?
*Tea* for Texas, *Sweet T* for Tennessee
Yuck... give me the unsweet vintage please.
Every once in a while Chick-fil-a dumps that stuff in my cup by accident; it is like drinking straight high-fructose corn syrup with a hint of tea thrown in. Might as well drink Coca-cola syrup straight from the dispenser.
They were very common in Kentucky. Little winkers would start in shortly before dusk and keep it up for a couple of hours, then they would go nest wherever lightning bugs nest. The perennial kids’ project of catching hundreds in a bottle (with or without ventilation holes) never was very satisfying because their glow plugs were just about pooped out when the other lightning bugs went to bed.
CFS was shoe-leather *before* it was fixed up to be edible, most places you get it.
In very nice places, it’s a good cut and here in Houston, back in the oilie heyday, we had a place called the Pacesetter that served Chicken Fried Filet Mignon. My very favorite CFS ever, may it RIP!
See, I put brown sugar in my Kentucky Wonders, along with everything else I sugar. Lots of cut-up bacon pieces, sweet onions, and brown sugar. Love that pot likker!
Like Hoover Hog on the Half-Shell, lol.
As an aside, Chick-fil-a, hands down, makes the best fast food restaurant sweet tea. It is ALWAYS good, every time.
I confused one cashier at a Chick-fil-a when I visited Maryland. I ordered ice tea and she asked if I wanted sweet tea. Then I asked if it was that bottled stuff and she got a puzzled look and said "no". And then she got even more puzzled when I asked: "Brewed ice tea with sugar already in it? Really?"
In the Northwest if you ask for ice tea, you frequently get bottled or instant ice tea which I can't stand so I keep having to ask if it's brewed ice tea. If they do have it, it is always unsweetened.
The idea of milk in tea has always made my stomach turn. It makes sense in coffee, but I don’t drink that, either.
The only way I know dewberries aren’t blackberries is if I picked ‘em myself.
I’m bery, bery berry-sensitive and have to know these things!
I drink my coffee black. Milk tea is good, though.
Wow! *slap upside mah head like a V-8 person* Why didn’t I think of that? You have my eternal gratitude!
So true! But the thread topic is “tea,” so let’s humor these people, lol.
I notice you are speaking in past tense! See what I mean?
Has B-Chan had “chai”? I am afraid to try it, for reasons I stated above.
Yep.
...and tea should only be served in a mason jar (real glass) with plenty of ice.
Bruce
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