Re: Yank Homemade Southern Sweet Tea

vickiebee <[email protected]> wrote at 10:44 this Friday (GMT):
>
> I hope this doesn't get me thrown out of here...
>
> Homemade Southern Sweet Tea is the house wine of the South.
>
> Southern-style sweet tea is a strong infusion of black tea freshly
> brewed - Lipton or Luzianne - that's sweetened with sugar while hot,
> chilled until cold, and served over ice.
>
> It's served in every restaurant - posh or cafe.
>
> We are raised on it and it's offered the same way I used to think (from
> movies) that you Brits offer hot tea - to celebrate, in a crisis, after
> a hard day. It's served ice cold because it is hot as buttermilk
> biscuits down here.
>
> They say that it became a cultural staple because sugar was used as a
> preservative in the old days and our palates grew to like the sweetness.
>
> v - ah do declare, a tall glass would be so nice now, slices of lemon please


I do enjoy sweet tea.
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