October 06, 2008
Sweetened vs. Unsweetened Tea as a dividing line between Northern and Southern US - It's like the coke/pop/soda word wars in a sense. I can't tell: is VT in the Tea North or the Tea South?
PS: Regardless of cultural implications, I'm sad to report to those of you drinking your tea without sugar that you are in fact merely drinking some gross water with dirt and leaves in it. It's a fact.
Vermont is clearly in the north
Slathering your tea in obscene amounts of sugar is really only necessary if you're drinking that Lipton junk that is made from dust that may once have shared a molecule or two with an actual tea leaf.
As a drinker of both unsweet and sweet tea, I prefer my cold tea sweet (sweeter the better). Hot tea can have less sugar, but still needs some. Also needs milk.
I've recently started drinking my sweet tea with bourbon and limoncello. Try it!
All of your imperial additives are swill and bastardizations of the real thing. As is Lipton. (There, I've done my China-patriotism thing for the week.)
The map is roughly accurate for West Virginia. While northern West Virginians like to compare themselves favorably to East Coast cities, they may balk at being referred to as "Northern." However, southern West Virginians are quite firm in their southern roots.
When I first moved here and people saw my Texas DL or plates (or Horns in the window; Hook 'EM!) I actually had to listen to stereotypes about Texas. They didn't take it kindly when I suggested that people in glass outhouses shouldn't throw stones...
I got used to sweettea in Alabama, but it'll never be a staple of my liquid diet.
Breaking my ¨10 tonnes of sugar in glass of ice tea¨ habit was the best thing I ever did.
Until you stop using the word "tonnes" which will be the new best thing you ever did. Burn!
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I'm not sure I'm reading the map correctly, but it appears that VT is in the purple "both" region.
I had never had sweet tea until I lived in Georgia (so this would have been partway through my VT adventure). A neighbor made some for me, and it was all I could do not to spit it out, because it was too sweet. I do like sugar in my tea, but that syrup was coma-inducing.
posted by NanoCindy at 05:54PM CST on October 06