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To answer the the question, Miami is the Southern City that feels the least Southern of the options. I couldn't believe that I could not order Sweet Tea at a diner in Fort Lauderdale...that right there tells one all they need to know about the local culture.
Can’t use the sweet tea but. Up until the last few years, it wasn’t the norm in much of Texas including Houston either.
Yeah this is true. Texas Monthly wrote an article about it years ago. Of course the only part of Texas that drank Sweat Tea on the regular is East Texas. It’s definitely a thing in the sticks. I do know in Houston Black culture sweat tea is more of a thing but in East Texas everybody does Sweat Tea.
Baltimore hasn't had the influx of northerners like so southern cities.
The working class DC natives seem more southern to me than Baltimore natives. Baltimore city feels northern while the residents show that southern hospitality.
Yeah this is true. Texas Monthly wrote an article about it years ago. Of course the only part of Texas that drank Sweat Tea on the regular is East Texas. It’s definitely a thing in the sticks. I do know in Houston Black culture sweat tea is more of a thing but in East Texas everybody does Sweat Tea.
For blacks in Texas I've always seen that unsweetened tea was the standard. Same in Louisiana. Be it family reunions or church functions, plain tea is what was served and you had to add sugar yourself if you wanted to.
Georgia is the only place I've lived where tea comes already sweetened, and I think they're largely responsible for it becoming a national thing. Peach tea and peach everything else
For blacks in Texas I've always seen that unsweetened tea was the standard. Same in Louisiana. Be it family reunions or church functions, plain tea is what was served and you had to add sugar yourself if you wanted to.
Georgia is the only place I've lived where tea comes already sweetened, and I think they're largely responsible for it becoming a national thing. Peach tea and peach everything else
GA has the dispensers of sweet and unsweet tea. If you wanted it semi sweet then do 1/4 or half sweet tea and the rest unsweet. Sugar does not mix well if the tea is iced already. GA using good sense I guess.
For blacks in Texas I've always seen that unsweetened tea was the standard. Same in Louisiana. Be it family reunions or church functions, plain tea is what was served and you had to add sugar yourself if you wanted to.
Georgia is the only place I've lived where tea comes already sweetened, and I think they're largely responsible for it becoming a national thing. Peach tea and peach everything else
I mean I've always known sweet tea to be served at Family reunions and Fish Fries in East Texas sweetened. Whenever my family would make Tea it was always sweetened. Only at restaurants do they ask if you want sweet or unsweetened tea and I know that's a thing in Atlanta restaurants as well. I also got married in New Orleans and our caterer who was a New Orleans native made the best sweet tea I ever had in my LIFE.
GA has the dispensers of sweet and unsweet tea. If you wanted it semi sweet then do 1/4 or half sweet tea and the rest unsweet. Sugar does not mix well if the tea is iced already. GA using good sense I guess.
Sure I mean you would have to open every sugar packet in the room to get your cup of iced tea to match the maple syrup like taste of real sweet tea
I've just noticed that there seems to be a preference for unsweet west of the Mississippi while east of it most people want it brewed sweet. Of course these days you can find both everywhere
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