sweet tea

[insertnamehere]

the mcd's thread made me wonder this:

can you get it up north? at like, mcdonalds and stuff? and by "up north" i mean everywhere that's not the south.

i remember i was in new york once and forgot myself and tried to order a sweet tea and the waitress was like :confused: and then i was like "er, i'll have a coke"


mmmmmmmmmmmm sweet tea

[abcdefz]

You mean sweetened tea (iced tea that's been sweetened), or is "sweet tea" something different?

[insertnamehere]

sweetened iced tea. but none of that adding tiny packets of sugar to your already cold glass of tea. you have to mix it in when its hot still so it dissolves. like you make kind of a tea concentrate and mix sugar in whilt its really hot still like just off the stove then you add cold water to it till it's the proper concentration of tea-ness then you stick it in the fridge till its cold for drinking.

i dont ever put ice in any of my drinks and as such i feel that iced tea is a stupid name

besides which everyone here just calls it sweet tea

also, bottles and cans dont count, that stuff tastes like poo. especially nestee

[abcdefz]

I don't know of any fast food places that would go to the trouble of brewing their own tea.

[insertnamehere]

um, everywhere here brews their own tea

not on a stove, with a big tea brewing machine, but yah, we brew shitloads of tea. and then it goes in a giant metal urn next to the drink machine

where drink machine = soda fountain, not like a vending machine

[AceFace]

I don't know of any fast food places that would go to the trouble of brewing their own tea.
ooooh it's all over down here. they all brew their own tea b/c we LOVE our sweeeeet tea. man chick-fil-a is DEF the best sweet tea around. and they brew it all day every day.

and yes, it's "sweet tea". they know just what that means.

i tell ya, if i'm in a restaurant in town and they don't have sweet tea, the waitress is already ready with a story on how crappy that place is not to have it.

[AceFace]

um, everywhere here brews their own tea

not on a stove, with a big tea brewing machine, but yah, we brew shitloads of tea. and then it goes in a giant metal urn next to the drink machine

where drink machine = soda fountain, not like a vending machine

hee! i love how different areas of the US say things different. someone will ask me what word i use for "soda" and i reply... DRINK. it's so interesting, i love being from the south. where are you from, honey?

[abcdefz]

I grew up in Indiana, and I swear, there were pockets where the word for "soda" was "Coke."

So you'd have an exchange like this:

"Can I get you a Coke, honey?"

"Sure."

"What kind?"

"Sprite."

:confused:

[jabumbo]

some places (i think mcdonalds is doing it now) will have sweet tea, but most standard restaurants just have unsweetened tea and you have to add your own sugar.


oh, and for a soft drink, the correct term would be "pop", thanks

[insertnamehere]

no way, bojangles sweet tea is most def where it's at (y)
i dont know why theirs is so much better, but its not like it is at any other place

im from greenville, nc... right now i'm in raleigh

oh yeah, and also, if you just say "tea" sans the sweet, im pretty sure everyone assumes thats what you mean as well. you have to ask special for unsweet. and if you mean hot tea, you have to say hot tea. i dont know how big of a thing hot tea is other places, but here you mostly can only get that at coffee joints

i use the word "drink" or "soda," it annoys the shit out of me when people say coke as a catch-all for their carbonated beverages. also i think pop sounds obnoxious, but i'll use it to say THANKS FOR CALLIN JIMMY JOHNS YOUR ONE STOP SHOP FOR SUBS AND POP cause that's just fun.

[adrockmelanie]

i'm from illinois, and i grew up calling it "pop". most people in arkansas call it "coke", but i've heard a few call it "soda". a friend came over one day and i asked her if she wanted something to drink. she said "sure, i'll have a coke." i reached in the cabinet and handed her a coca-cola, and she looked at me funny and said "i didn't even tell you which kind i wanted. i wanted a dr. pepper."

...weird.

[adrockmelanie]

oh yeah, and also, if you just say "tea" sans the sweet, im pretty sure everyone assumes thats what you mean as well. you have to ask special for unsweet. and if you mean hot tea, you have to say hot tea.



yeah, and in arkansas if you just say "tea" at a restaurant, you'll get (sweet) iced tea. a friend from here went to illinois for a visit with me and ordered "tea" when we went out to eat. they brought her hot tea. i guess you have to be specific in both parts.

[HEIRESS]

tea is tea. if you say just simply "tea" here they will start listing off all the types they carry

if you say ice(d) tea then they will bring you pre-sweetened lemony tea.

I put the (d) in brackets because some people pronounce it ice tea and others iceD tea. most people are lazy and have dropped the d.

and depending on the coffee shop they all have ice(d) tea made from whichever type of steeped tea you want. so it comes to you hot but with an ass-load of icecubes in it so it cools down in like 3 seconds.
and they will presweetend it for you or you can do it yourself or not after.

this one place makes a huge batch of regular sweetened lemony ice(d) tea everyday during the summer and its so goddamn good

but if you just simply ask for sweet tea here they'll probably look at you like "ok wise guy, but what flavour/hot/cold/bag in/bag out yah douche"

[cosmo105]

there happens to be one of the only chick-fil-as around here in my hometown, so whenever we go back to visit my moms we have to make a stop to pick up a gallon of sweet tea. i love going by there on a sunday and saying to steger, hey, let's go get some chick-fil-a babe! and his eyes light up for a second then he realizes it's sunday and he punches me in the arm and pouts. :cool:

and please, guys, it's "soda." pffft, "pop." my cousins say that shit. pop. pfffffft.

[HEIRESS]

only time I use the term soda I pronounce it "sod'r" as in "hey you want a sod'r pop?"