“Ain’t got no sweet tea, ain’t got no fried chicken”
As I sat here drinking a bottle of Lipton sweetened iced tea with lunch, I ran across a good article about Southern sweet tea at Slate.
Here in Houston, when I don’t feel like making it myself, I get my sweet tea from Chick-Fil-A, Boston Market, occasionally McDonalds, or I buy a bottle of AriZona sweet tea from the corner convenience store.
When it was open, the Grandy’s in Austin near where I lived would sell gallon jugs of their awesome sweet tea, but they closed down in 2002-2003 and that location turned into a taco joint.
August 10th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Offtopic, but the Grandy’s at Westgate (south Austin) is now a Hyde Park Grill.
Being a northerner, I never got into the sweet tea thing. I love the fact that I can drink unsweet tea by the Bill Miller bucket, and it’s all zero calories.
I don’t like it when I go back north and can find brewed iced tea, it’s often served in water glass-sized tumblers instead of the bucket-sized glasses we get around here.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Texas isn’t the South. Neither is Florida. I was spoiled living in Atlanta. When you order “iced tea” you automatically get sweet iced tea. I have found this to be true from Virginia to Louisiana. But here in Texas? You’re lucky if you can find it and even luckier if it tastes right.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Or you could come as far North as British Columbia. No unsweetened ice tea here.