Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

We have a local BBQ sauce maker in St. Louis called Maull's. Fantastic stuff. Learned last week that they closed their doors, and are looking for a buyer. Rumors have it that store shelves are already empty.

I do like Sweet Baby Ray's and KC Masterpiece, too, though.

Last time we were in Texas, we stopped on the way home just outside of Dallas at a place in Lewisville called Fat Cow BBQ. Excellent food, nice people, and we took a few jars of their sauce home with us. May need to reorder some of that. Wish I could order online some of their bacon-wrapped stuffed jalapeños, too. Those were delicious.

 

[DABSGT]

I was a Sweet Baby Ray's fan until I tried STUBB'S sweet heat

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[toppop52]

I "assume"? by "Southern" everyone is talking about the southeast part of the country; not Oklahoma or Texas where I've spend most of my life. The one and only time I've been in a restaurant that didn't have unsweetened tea was in Canada. My mother was with us and was diabetic and we ate lunch one day in a place that did not have any tea made that wasn't already sweetened. But every place I know of to eat out, and every Walmart, has both sweetened and unsweetened tea OR unsweetened only and you can add sugar if you wish. Incidentally, I prefer unsweetened myself.

For years outside of the southern states it was near impossible to find sweetened tea. When I came to Maryland in 1973 if you asked for sweet tea they looked at you like you had two heads. Sweet tea started showing up here in the 80s when the boom in vacationing on the Outer Banks started big time.

 

[toppop52]

No, Bird, when I think of "The South," I generally think of the east-of-the-Mississippi-south-of-the-Ohio area. All the sweet tea I've ever had in Texas or Oklahoma was similar to what I'm used to here in the St. Louis area; mildly sweet. The stuff they drink in "The South," though ... I don't know how they physically get that much sugar into it and it still remains a liquid.

I知 from Northeastern NC, South Mills to be exact. Iced tea is not a drink in the south, it痴 a religion.

 

[toppop52]

I like sweetened or unsweetened, as long as there's no tea in it.

My son likes his that way too!

 

[PJSprog]

I drink unsweetened tea at work all day, brewed fresh at my desk every morning. At home, we always have a pitcher of lightly sweetened tea in the refrigerator. Sometimes I drink that, sometimes just water from the Brita dispenser thingie.

My first exposure to real southern sweet tea was when we went to Georgia for my stepson's graduation from basic at Ft. Benning. I thought I was going to need insulin.

 

[daugen]

Sweet tea so sweet your spoon would stand up in it.
Insulin served as a chaser. I just can't drink it...besides my sugar
is now over 100 and we all know that's not good.

Wow what a crazy Microsoft update, took forever, once locked up my machine, inch high letters across the screen twice saying
this will take awhile and btw don't turn it off or your computer will go up in flames...or something horrible.
Fall Creators Update, bunch of marketing stuff re W10 and updated security I'm sure..
Let's see animated 3D models in Powerpoint, nope, not for me. Bunch of other features I won't use.

Had to go use my laptop it took so long to update.
Maybe the North Koreans are hacking us and this wasn't a Microsoft update at all!
Oh dear, my delete button just deleted a building in Seoul.
Must be true...

 

[jbrumberg]

Daugen- Do you know your A1C?

 

[Ed of all trades]

Like my tea unsweetened, never did like the real sweet stuff and I grew up in central Va. Went up into Mane in the early 80's and ordered unsweetened ice tea. They said they did not have any. I asked if they had hot tea, Yes, do you have any ice, Yes, Well put them together in a glass and bring it to me. The waitress came walking over caring it in two hands and set it on the table. Asked if it was ok and then ran over to the counter and made some for herself and the other two waitresses. They had never heard of ice tea before.

In the Harrisonburg area they make vinegar base b-q chicken that is mighty fine stuff. Churches and clubs do it for fund raisers and sell it on the street corner every Sat in the summer. I miss it now that I am on the vegan diet. Feel a lot better though.

Ed

 

[daugen]

Daugen- Do you know your A1C?

No, and I should; Labcorp tests don't show it, just know I went from 96 to 114 glucose (fasting) in a year.
Getting annual labs next month, that and rising PSA at issue. As usual. At least my cholesterol dropped to nothing with a very low dose statin.
My late wife was an RN and I learned to track all these numbers, though often there are some tests I bet they don't run due to cost.