Discomfort food

Funny how a "newbie" can say this. Fly is code for FenPhen.

 

Yes, but sweetened iced tea is often served outside of the South; however, it's just called iced tea.
See?

 

Restaurants down here have two types of iced tea - sweet and unsweet. It's like regular coffee and decaf.

 

Sheer genius.

No love for leeks here. (If you've ever smelled a batch cooking, or caught a whiff of someone who ate too much leek dip the day before, you know why.) A local town celebrates the wild onion with the "Stinkfest", featuring outhouse races. I shit you not.

 

OK, I understand the difference between sweetened and unsweetened iced tea. Yo comprendo.
I have never lived in the South. In a lifetime outside of the South, I have been served unsweetened tea and sweetened tea, at various times, but it usually was just called 'iced tea,' with no mention of it being sweetened or unsweetened.
Having often heard of Southern sweet tea, I always assumed it was different than the sweetened iced tea I have had outside of the South.
Thus my question: Is there a difference between Southern sweet tea and sweetened iced tea outside of the South? Is Southern sweet tea sweeter? Is it made differently?

 

Okay, now we're on the same page.

Technically, there's probably no difference between the way sweet tea is made up north and the stuff served down here. The only difference might be in the brand of tea being used. Do y'all get Luzianne up there?

 

I've never seen that brand of tea. They make a coffee though, too, don't they? It came in a white can and had chickory in it.
I used to drink that back in the day. That was the coffee we drank in college. Damn good.

 

Yep, that's New Orleans-style coffee. Mmmm, chicory coffee and beignets.

 

whoa, whoa, whoa...

most places i've been outside the south when i ask for sweet tea will point me to the sugar on the table and give me a spoon

when you add sugar to iced tea, that's sweetened tea

sweet tea has sugar added when it's still hot so that it doesn't sink to the bottom

 

I can't vouch for either of these foods, but my dad has two answers to this question (definitely not regional, but both occasionally found in the U.S.). Haggis and kimchee. Just the description of both is enough to keep me away.

 

Well, haggis is regional to Scotland and kimchee to Korea.

Two foods I'd never thought I'd see in the the same sentence.

 

Exactly.

The "sweetened tea" that Buck is talking about ... is no good. Frankly, it's disgusting. I refuse to drink "sweetened tea" out here in California, because they don't make it right. It's not the same.