Wikipedia Avenges Me!

[x_los]

THIS is why I drink sweet green tea! And you can all shut up, because SEEEEE?! It is so, so, the Done Thing. My historical-cultural antecedent is here:

"The oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree. This recipe calls for green tea. In fact, most sweet tea drunk during this period was green tea. However, during World War II, the major sources of green tea were cut off from the United States, leaving them with tea almost exclusively from British-controlled India which produces black tea. Americans came out of the war drinking nearly 99 percent black tea."

Also, for your daily dose of Dolly Parton fabulousness:

"Sweet Tea is a staple beverage in the U.S. Southern states; most family-style and fast food restaurants in the region offer the customer a choice of sweet tea or unsweetened (sometimes referred to as "unsweet") iced tea. However, most Southerners prefer the sweet variant. Dolly Parton refers to sweet tea as the "table wine of the South.""

Comments

[sweetevangeline.livejournal.com]

I love sweet tea. I asked if the tea was sweetened at Red Robin the other day and the waitress freaked out and was all like "No, this isn't the South. You can't get that here." and I was like "You lie, you can get it at Logan's." She ended up carding me because I decided to get a beer and she swore that St. Louis is the south. Noooo. It's a middleground. That's why it's the Midwest, stupid waitress.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

St. Louis is totally, totally not the South. It's like the last-gasp hold of Industria. It's like Ohio and Indiana and such. I would argue, however, that certain areas of the state only want to be Midwestern (cough, Hannibal) and some, Jeff City, have no interest whatsoever in cultural sucession. And let's not go to Branson or the Boothill. Ever. Again. I really have trouble drawing a little clean line across the state as to what's part of what territorial region (Great Plains, South, tiny bastion of Industria). But I'd card you, if only because of your super-memorable appearance in Barely Legal 6.

[homo-moment.livejournal.com]

Dolly Parton is the tablewine of the south

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I only wish I drank her on a regular basis.


At least SHE would really be Mexican...

[debatertwig67.livejournal.com]

hey, just to let you know: the person who's entry you replied to on the uiowa lj community about "subletting" part of your driveway (sai12) is my new IWLC buddy, Amanda, and she's way cool.

p.s. if it's iced tea, maybe it's okay to sweeten it. but I never liked iced tea to begin with. even though almost everywhere I go here, there is sweetened iced tea. somebody shoot me.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Awe!! Now I feel bad about tryiong to hardbargin! her. Fuckity! Small world, though.

See, I miss that up here, though!