Why don't northerners really drink sweet tea? (garden, moving to)

[wolf39us]

Originally Posted by Southern man

6 TBS corn meal

Has sugar in it (granted it's not much)

Originally Posted by Southern man

2/3 cup buttermilk

Has plenty of sugar in it


You should say "No added sugar". Don't kid yourself though, there IS sugar in it :-)

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

Okay. But your assertion was that real Southerners don't put sugar in their cornbread. Your words.



That's obviously not true for the aforementioned reasons.

You stand by your opinion, I'll stand by mine. Sweet cornbread is not real Southern cornbread, it's desert.

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by wolf39us

Has sugar in it (granted it's not much)


Has plenty of sugar in it


You should say "No added sugar". Don't kid yourself though, there IS sugar in it :-)

I'm not kidding myself, my recipe clearly indicates I did not add any sugar. That's how recipes work.
The cornbread I made for supper tonight was wonderful with the turnip greens.

[wolf39us]

Originally Posted by Southern man

I'm not kidding myself, my recipe clearly indicates I did not add any sugar. That's how recipes work.
The cornbread I made for supper tonight was wonderful with the turnip greens.

Originally Posted by Southern man

Some folks don't like our sweet tea, some don't like our grits, some don't like it cause we say y'all, apparently now some don't like the quality of our water. However real Southern cornbread does not have SUGAR in it, but the stuff you folks call cornbread does.

You were saying?

[Debsi]

To me, tea should be sweetened with a spoon or two of sugar, but anything called "sweet tea" is disgusting.

But I do like sweet cornbread - so sue me.

[thedirtypirate]

I think sweet tea is great, but people not accustom too it, usually think it is way too sweet. It def is an acquired taste and best with a lot of ice.

[DubbleT]

Originally Posted by PNW-type-gal

Because, as it is generally served in the south, it is WAY too sweet. A lot of places don't even serve "un" or "unsweet" tea and you get whatever the restaurant serves, which is frequently too sweet.

I like my iced tea fresh brewed from actual tea bags (not the powder) and I generally put in one packet of raw sugar per quart, no more. (And often sprigs of mint.)

My main drink of choice is sparkling water, sometimes with lime or lemon juice in it.

Even thirty years ago when I first moved to the deep south the restaurants that I worked in or ate at all had two tea dispensers, one for sweet tea and one for unsweetened tea. Anyone that asked for iced tea was asked "sweet or unsweet?" I don't recall ever going anyplace that defaulted to sweet tea other than a few hole in the wall places in the boonies.
Most southerners I know use Luzianne, not Lipton and definitely not that nasty powder junk, ewww.

As a da*n yankee I'll weigh in and say I've never met a cornbread I didn't like. Give it to me sweet, plain, made with creamed corn or jalapenos and I'll eat it! My mom taught me to crumble up day old cold cornbread and pour milk ( she liked it with buttermilk ) over it for breakfast.

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by Southern man

You stand by your opinion, I'll stand by mine. Sweet cornbread is not real Southern cornbread, it's desert.

I'm not standing by an opinion. I'm standing by a fact.

[drrckmtthws]

Originally Posted by Debsi

To me, tea should be sweetened with a spoon or two of sugar, but anything called "sweet tea" is disgusting.

But I do like sweet cornbread - so sue me.

Probably because you are making it wrong if you are adding the sugar after you brewed the tea.

[drrckmtthws]

Man you guys are tripping, Sweet tea, peach sweet tea, raspberry sweet tea, half and half(not half unsweetened and half sweetened, but half sweet tea and half lemonade) blackberry sweet tea, they are all awesome. Think you guys just went to places that simply didn't make it right.