Streetalk: Is sweet tea still the drink of the South?
August 14, 2007 at 5:29 am by Jeff Slate in Randomly Noted
Sherry: Yes. It’s the champagne of the South. I’m from Portland, Ore. Never experienced sweet tea until I moved here. I love it. In Oregon we drink green or Asian tea, no sweet tea. My friend moved here from California last week. All she talked about was taking her somewhere so she can drink sweet tea. So she drank sweet tea. Now she felt she was in the South.
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Chris: No way. It’s terribly unhealthy. I grew up in Haralson County — sweet-tea country. My grandmother would boil the tea, pour an entire container of sugar into it, stir it up and let it sit there. Always had the feeling that, once it cooled down, if I tapped it, it would crystallize. It was my grandmother’s pride and joy. But it’s like drinking cake. I don’t drink her tea anymore and she looks very sad.
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Carmena: It is. You can’t find it up North at all. You can get sweet tea in Atlanta, but you have to go to certain places to get it with the right amount of sugar and the right amount of lemon, like Chow Baby on Howell Mill. I make really good sweet tea. The key is the amount of sugar. Put two-and-a-half scoops of sugar in one urn. I grew up on sweet tea. Nothing like sweet tea on a hot summer day.
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