Southern English

[smstonypoint]

How many of you remember tea before it was in tea-bags?

I don't remember life before tea bags. My mother continued using saccharin after the end of WWII and sugar rationing. Not knowing any better, I thought that was the way tea was supposed to taste.

Steve

 

[smstonypoint]

The late, great Lewis Grizzard explains Southern English:

Steve

 

[cqaigy2]

No biscuits and gravey? what the He77?.. Well I never!...

Ditto, i thought you could get biscuits and gravey anywhere. specially sausage gravey.:licking:

 

[cqaigy2]

Things have gone to he** in a hand basket. You used to order tea in the South and you obtained sweet tea (sweetened with sugar), no questions asked.

Steve

That's because all of us yankees have come to visit.

 

[Bird]

Gosh knows that there are all kinds of teas on the market these days: regular tea, green tea, herb tea, etc.. How many of you remember tea before it was in tea-bags? My mother used to make a teapot full with raw tea leaves added to the teapot and then boiling water poured in. Let the pot sit and steep for a few minutes and then pour the tea through a small tea strainer into a jug of water with sugar added to your taste, many times with ice cubes in the jug.

Bird, I do sweeten my tea with artificial sweeteners, but like it unsweetened if it is strong enough. What I hate is restaurants charging you $1.75 or more for a glass of tea that looks like barely colored water with very little taste.

Yep, I too grew up with my mother making tea without tea bags. In fact, I've made it myself without tea bags. And I can drink sweetened tea, but that's like soda pop, I'll want a drink of water, or something unsweetened afterwards. So I'd rather just have my tea without any sweetener to start with. And I guess both tea and coffee are big money makers for restaurants.

 

[Bird]

In many places, you're right, but also in many places around here, they ask if you want your tea sweet or unsweetened. But I've also been in some places in the east, and in Canada, where they didn't ask; just brought that old sweet tea, so I learned to ask, if they didn't, because I don't want my tea sweetened by any method, before or after brewing.

We stopped to eat, with my parents, at a place in Canada and my mother ordered iced tea. She took one taste, knew it had sugar, and told the waitress that she was diabetic and couldn't have tea sweetened with sugar, so she asked if they had any unsweetened tea (Mother carried packets of non-sugar sweetener in her purse, since she did like sweetened tea). And apparently the waitress had never encountered such a thing before. So she didn't know what to do, asked, "Did you want hot tea?" Well, that turned out to be the solution. I told the waitress to bring hot tea and a big glass of ice.:laughing:

 

[nwltruck]

Can't beat good BNG (biscuits-n-gravy). As for sweet tea you can keep it.

 

[two_bit_score]

Gosh knows that there are all kinds of teas on the market these days: regular tea, green tea, herb tea, etc.. How many of you remember tea before it was in tea-bags? My mother used to make a teapot full with raw tea leaves added to the teapot and then boiling water poured in. Let the pot sit and steep for a few minutes and then pour the tea through a small tea strainer into a jug of water with sugar added to your taste, many times with ice cubes in the jug.

Bird, I do sweeten my tea with artificial sweeteners, but like it unsweetened if it is strong enough. What I hate is restaurants charging you $1.75 or more for a glass of tea that looks like barely colored water with very little taste.

You can get a beer cheeper most places. :drink:

My favorite Mexican place in San Antonio includes sweet or unsweet tea in the $5.75 price of the lunch special!

Best food in town!

 

[jerrybob]

We used to get a real kick out of Grandpa's sayings......

He doesn't know whether to check his *** or scratch his watch.

He's as happy as if he had good sense.

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's rainin'!

 

[k0ua]

I drink a fair amount of unsweetened tea, but I don't care for sweet tea, at least the way most people make it. It is just too sweet. McDonalds will make you what they call "half-cut" Which is half unsweetened and half sweetened. Still sweeter than I care for.

James K0UA