Amaretto Sour

they realize the shit's supposed to sweet

Are you one of those sweet tea people? *eyeballs&

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Proper iced tea is sweet. It's only whackjob yankees and apparently you freaky Texans that drink it unsweet. HEATHENS.

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Actually, I had a roommate who would put so much sugar into her tea that she'd have to stir it before she took a sip.

Southerners like their tea sweet. Now... my family? You put sweetener in tea, you get looked at strange.

You're crazy. :)

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Freak! ^_~

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My family was raised in Indiana and Michigan when they were in the states, and lived in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio before moving to Texas. :)

I'm not a freak. I'm a transplant.

And though it's the most popular 'Texan food', Chicken Fried Steak is one of the most disgusting concoctions I have ever happened upon, besides rutabaga.

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Vagabond! Me too! But I was raised Southern, so I consider myself more rebel than anything.

I hate chicken fried steak. It's dumb sounding and doesn't taste too great either. I want fried chicken or steak.

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I was raised in Texas since I was 2. :) But my household was in a big metropolitan city, so I grew up more citified and yank than most.

I ordered a sandwich at DQ, thinking it was a fried chicken breast. It was called the Dude, and was chicken fried steak. It's been rather off-putting ever since then.

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rykaine.livejournal.com

You might want to watch the verbage you use, or I'll have D drive up there and fix you two really big chicken fried steaks. I eat my steak like that, y'know. And the name may be silly, but at least you know what you're getting.

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I always knew you were the werid sibling.

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I enjoyed the sweet tea in Atlanta. Although, I'm a Texas-raised Louisiana boy.

So, what is this place in Yankee country that does it right?

In any case, the only real demand I make of tea is that it actually taste like tea. At most establishments, that seems too much to ask for. I ended that sentence in a preposition to spite them.

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Texas-raised Lousiana boy? Where in Texas and/or Lousiana? :)

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I was born in Ruston, LA though I never lived there. I spent a lot of time visting my grandmother near Shreveport though.

I was raised in Wichita Falls, Texas where I lived until the exact event described here occured to my home. And, I have the minor scars to prove it.

I then lived in San Antonio until the 3rd grade whence I moved to Ohio (perk of a military family).

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Ah. I've had two roommates from Louisiana, one from Baton Rouge, and another from Lafayette, so that's why I asked.

I lived in Dallas from age 2 to 18, when I moved south for University, but I was actually born in Wooster OH. So... kind of reverse from me, I guess.

We got really lucky a couple of years ago when the twisters hit Fort Worth. Our little corner of Dallas hasn't ever been severely hit by a tornado, because the storms always break up west of us, and reform on the east.

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Getting lucky is good :)

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I agree. Lucky is very good, especially in a state that has as many tornadoes annually as it has counties... ~250 or so, according to recent statistics. :)

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If I had my way, I would not be living near tornado alley.
However, I concluded it is very difficult not to live near the possibiliy of some type of natural disaster. Hurricanes on the coasts, tornados inland, earthquakes on the west coast, woe is me.

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Don't forget blizzards. We don't get those here. :) And flooding. And wildfires. (We *do* get those here.) You're pretty well screwed everywhere you live. It's just a matter of what's going to get you, and how long.

Oh, and supposedly, there's this island in the Canary Islands, I think, that is an active volcano, and if it erupts, they're predicting a tidal wave that could do away with the Eastern Seaboard, worse than the Indian Ocean disaster. :) Just a question of when. *goes to have lovely dreams about natural disasters*

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stardance.livejournal.com

Sweet tea is the most vile substance known to man. More than grits, even.

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*dies laughing*

Yankee.

Grits = <3

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stardance.livejournal.com

I lived in South Carolina for 3 months. Grits aren't actually bad, they're just not good either. They taste like nothing. Although I have eaten them voluntarily in the field cause they stay warm a long time. So you can dunk your cold sausage and eggs in them and still have a hot meal XD My grandmother is from New Orleans. She thinks grits are wonderful, just like every other Southerner I've met.

I HATE sweet tea. I like real tea with nothing in it. The best part about getting back to California was that they have unsweetened tea there.

Also I'm not a yankee. Colorado wasn't even a state during the civil war, kthx.

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I like my grits with cheese. My one sister goes nuts with sugar, and my other sibs mix it up. Salt and butter is good too, but cheese is best ^_^

If you're not a rebel, you're a yankee or close enough.

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Nah... she's not a yankee... she's one of the mountain people. :)

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I like to add brown sugar to cream of wheat, but that's about as close to grits as I get.

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hayama-sb.livejournal.com

I've tried grits. I forget what resturant (probably Waffle House), but they asked if I wanted them & I said I'd try them & they were nasty. XP

Give me some Goetta instead!

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People like to fix grits like they'd fix oatmeal or cream of wheat - which is completely the wrong way. Do it that way they taste like sludge or worse. You can ask Sarah - she tried my dad's grits over christmas and liked them plenty then.

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Thank you! I quite agree!

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sagesae.livejournal.com

No. The sweeter the better. Amazingly, the army has realized how great sweet tea is and our chow hall actually serves both kinds and some days....the sweet tea is just AWESOME!

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nikerymis.livejournal.com

iced tea is supposed to be sweet. though most restaurants around here only serve unsweetened on the principle that 'hey they can always add sugar.' which is a pain.

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hayama-sb.livejournal.com

The 2 places I know of that serve "sweet tea" is Skyline & White Castle, was it one of those?

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Nope. McAllister's Deli. Know it?

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hayama-sb.livejournal.com

Nope, which is probably why it wasn't on my list. There are probably others in the area that serve it as well, I just knew about the 2, since people here at work get it occasionally (well, the one gets it everytime she can.)

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I know it's up on Montgomery road (or I think so anyway), near Amberley. Pretty good sandwiches, nummy carrot cake and good iced tea!

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McAllisters? Is that part of a national chain, do you know? Cause when I went to a place with that name here, I got unsweet. :)

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Dunno. Thought it was local, but I could be mistaken. And they seemed to pimp their sweet tea pretty hardcore, so I do't think it's the same place.

www.mcalistersdeli.com is the website i'm just now seeig on my cup.

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Yep. National franchise. :) Everything around here has both sweet and unsweet, because that way, you can add equal or sweet and low or even splenda instead of sugar. :)

They have wonderful muffalettas, I think.

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I saw that word, and neglected to ask them WTF is a muffaletta.

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