Posted on 06/15/2007 9:47:49 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
Best Served with BBQ
To a Yankee, the offered beverage often sounds like “sway tay”.
No matter, it sure is tasty!
Unsweet iced tea is consumed year-round in the Northwest.
Heresy!
...with fried chicken, mashed taters w/brown gravy, blackeye peas or butter beans, corn on the cobb, yeast rolls, and pie of your choosing.
Time for lunch.
Slow news day today? ;)
In my house in Mississippi we don’t use sugar. It makes you fat and rots your teeth. Looking at a lot of my neighbors, they don’t live by this rule.
Time for dinner!
Being a southerner living in the north, I love my mother’s tea that she boils in a pot with about 10 teabags, places in the pitcher afterwards, adds lots of sugar then refrigerate. Wow! It tastes better than any carbonated beverage.
Sugar in tea - GOOD
Sugar in cornbread - BAD
Sugar in oatmeal - GOOD
Sugar in grits - BAD
Rules to live by
I don't know about the rest of the South, but in Texas if you order iced tea at a chain restaurant, you'll usually get unsweetened tea. This has been true for the 30 years I've lived here. In fact, I didn't even know about the Southern concept of sweet tea until about 10 years ago.
Forget all about that brown gravy - make it white gravy instead.
Oh, and change those yeast rolls to biscuits too.
No tea BAGS..... boooooo hisssssss
Tea leaves brewed and steeped
I drink about a pitcher of it a day and I think its much better when served with deserts then the sweet version.
Sweet tea, a.k.a. instant diabetes mix.
The ‘sweet tea only’ thing was true 20 years ago, but more recently, in both Carolinas, I have been asked if I wanted my tea sweetened or unsweetened.
I make a sweet cornbread I bet would change your mind.
Take 2 boxes on Jiffy mix but add 1/2 cup of sugar and tablespoon of vanilla and a smidgen of extra milk. Cook in cast iron skillet as dirtected with butter wedges on top.
My kids eat it like a cake. I am required to make it at least once week and at all family get-togethers. :)
Roasting ears.
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