Where is the Sweet Tea line?

[safetywire]

True brewed sweet tea is not common anywhere in Missouri I know of... Heck Grits are still considered at best a side, not so much BREAKFAST!

The first time I ordered grits for breakfast in Missouri, that is all I ordered, was expecting a big ole bowl of piping hot grits with a big jar of syrup, when the server brought out this little bitty two bite petri dish of instant grits with no syrup or butter I was seriously bummed.

[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by RisingAurvandil

You can find sweet tea anywhere nowadays. I wouldn't call it a staple, though, in Joplin or StL (the places I've spent the most years in). It'd be interesting to see if the diabetes map has followed a similar track over time.

Maybe someone can chime in from the Bootheel. That is, after all, the most "southern" region of Missouri.

Sweet Tea most places I go have both. I just don't know of many places that don't but as others said it's pretty much everywhere now, especially the major chains.

Anyway, Sweat Tea I consider more of a deeper south thing. The Ozarks are a region of their own and more of southern Lite. Still southern, but not deep south. Sorta like Eastern TN, WV, eastern KY mountains, the Smokey Mountain sub region.

Strange how in the civil war places like the Ozarks were neutral, eastern TN, KY pro union, but now these days you see them people flying battle flags, bumper stickers on their car etc. Granted places like Ripley and Oregon counties in Missouri were and still are very southern and during the civil war very pro confederate. It seems over time some parts of the Ozarks became less southern and some parts more southern now.

As I said, southeast MO is more in line with the deep south culturally. Flat, cotton. The Ozarks parts of Missouri that are considered more southern are in a sub culture of the Ozarks more like southern lite.

Branson, Mountain Home AR, West Plains, Table Rock area are a totally different southern than Sikeston Missouri.

That last time I was in Branson in 2013 I saw tons of Confederate battle flags for sale all over in the shops on the strip. Nowhere here in modern FL I see that stuff for sale all in one area unless it's at the flea market. In my town here in SWFL if the shops in the tourist area sold that stuff that's sold in Branson they'd scare off all the rich yankee snobs from the north east and their sales would tank.

Is Branson still like that? Lots has changed the last couple years socially. I'm 36 and when I was a small child I remember even Silver Dollar City selling Confederate flags because I thought they were neat so my mom bought me some.

Ironic when I lived in St. Louis county there was a guy with a pickup truck who actually has a bumper sticker with the Missouri Confederate Battle flag on it, aka the Roman Cross. Very shocking to see as almost no one even knows what that flag is. Only a few on this forum know what it is.

[Mosep]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

Ironic when I lived in St. Louis county there was a guy with a pickup truck who actually has a bumper sticker with the Missouri Confederate Battle flag on it, aka the Roman Cross. Very shocking to see as almost no one even knows what that flag is. Only a few on this forum know what it is.

The answer is that it is a memorial to a group of traitors that killed many of their fellow Missourians. Missouri voted to stay in the Union, but this was not convenient for the traitors who felt chattel slavery was more important than the lives of their compatriots.

[GunnerTHB]

Originally Posted by RisingAurvandil

You can find sweet tea anywhere nowadays. I wouldn't call it a staple, though, in Joplin or StL (the places I've spent the most years in). It'd be interesting to see if the diabetes map has followed a similar track over time.

Maybe someone can chime in from the Bootheel. That is, after all, the most "southern" region of Missouri.

I remember it being everywhere until you got north of Cape Girardeau/Jackson.

Rolla didn't have it everywhere when I went to school there.

[Sassybluesy]

I live in the St. Louis area. Sweetened tea is offered everywhere. But...I'm guessing sweetened tea is not the same as Sweet tea. LOL


I know sweet tea is a whole thing...have to make the simple syrup, or pour the sugar in and stir and stir and stir. I was never a sweet tea fan. lol


I love sun tea though.

[GunnerTHB]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

I live in the St. Louis area. Sweetened tea is offered everywhere. But...I'm guessing sweetened tea is not the same as Sweet tea. LOL


I know sweet tea is a whole thing...have to make the simple syrup, or pour the sugar in and stir and stir and stir. I was never a sweet tea fan. lol


I love sun tea though.

That's the other thing, you have to add the sugar when the tea is hot. I wonder if they think that they can just add sugar/sweetener after it's brewed?

I don't go out of my way to drink it except for every once in awhile.

[Sassybluesy]

Originally Posted by GunnerTHB

That's the other thing, you have to add the sugar when the tea is hot. I wonder if they think that they can just add sugar/sweetener after it's brewed?

I don't go out of my way to drink it except for every once in awhile.

I've never really liked the taste of sweet tea. But I'm kind of that way about any kind of sweet drinks really. It tastes too syrupy to me.