Sweet Tea?? (Chicago, Evanston, Berwyn: home, live, restaurants)

[adamtrip]

Hey guys. My wife and I just move here from North Carolina. This may be a silly question, but do any restaurants have sweet tea? I know, another southerner asking annoying questions. But I really do miss my sweet tea.
Thanks!

[lisakf1]

I thought I heard that Smoque has it.

[cotyan]

LOL you sound like me and my family when we were there for the fourth. I kept asking for "sweet tea". Unabashedly at first and then more meek by the 9th time. "Do you have, sweet tea, possibly, maybe?" and no one ever had it.

I *finally* found a little taste of something similar at Cheesecake Factory, they have a sweet GREEN tea that's on ice, kinda the same with a little minty flavor... I slurped it up like a fiend, and stopped at the first Chick Fil A we found on the way back home lol I'm going to really miss my sweet tea but my hips won't.

[jdiddy]

Whenever I go South, I have to specify NON-sweet tea.

I don't know how you people still have teeth. Then again...

[cotyan]

Oh geez, let me specify, I'm from CA - only in the South for 4 years, teeth still in tact, thank you very much.

*giving the front chompers a wiggle for good measure*

Yep, I still do.

Originally Posted by jdiddy

Whenever I go South, I have to specify NON-sweet tea.

I don't know how you people still have teeth. Then again...

[jdiddy]

Originally Posted by cotyan

Oh geez, let me specify, I'm from CA - only in the South for 4 years, teeth still in tact, thank you very much.

*giving the front chompers a wiggle for good measure*

Yep, I still do.

Perhaps this is a stupid answer, but, doesn't McDonalds have it now?

It's just tea with a half pound of sugar inside it, right? Is there a difference?

[Drover]

Originally Posted by lisakf1

I thought I heard that Smoque has it.

If they have it, it's Lipton from the soda fountain. I'm pretty sure they have tea from the fountain, but I don't remember if it's sweetened or not -- probably not; I seem to recall they have lemon and sugar packets by the fountain for self-sweetening.

Dixie Kitchen in Evanston, Hyde Park and Lansing has it. Wishbone (West Loop, Lakeview, Berwyn) has it too.

[Manigault]

True, you can get it at McDonalds, White Castle and in Walgreen's. But pretty soon you put in in the class of Cherry Cokes and hush puppies: You'll begin to wonder what ever was the big deal about them.

You can't get no scrapple in Chicago, either. And that is an acqquired taste.

[adamtrip]

Is scrapple like livermush? I miss that too! And as said above, Chick-fil-A does have the best sweet tea, along with Bojangles!

[cotyan]

The best sweet tea I've had so far has been from Zaxby's. Something about the tea mixed with the little ice pellets... ahhhhhhh. Yeah I said, ice PELLETS. It's pure nirvana.