I've gone to many restaurants that serve iced tea and whenever I ask if it is sweetened, some of them will look at me all puzzled and bewildered and respond with some smartaleck, "you can your own sugar."

However, if you go to a SOUL FOOD restaurant, and I mean one with REAL authentic SOUL, they'll UNDERSTAND the question, and almost all of the time they'll say "Yes, it's sweetened."

Now what's the difference? If you add the sugar to iced tea when it is served, after it is cold it will take forever (if ever) for the sugar to dissolve. No amount of mixing will allow the SWEET to integrate with the ICE.

But, if the sugar is added while the tea is still being brewed before the ICE gets in the picture, then it'll mix well and taste yummy

I guess it's a SOUL FOOD thing.

I think it is a Southern thing, as MANY rednecks ask for it at the restaurant where my friend works.

IceNine said:

Hey rednecks got SOUL too. It's just inverted.

NuPwrSoul said:

You should post this on the original, one and only OFFICIAL "sweet tea" phenomenon thread.

It just struck me as really funny when my friend told me about that stuff... I never would have thought that there was a difference.

NuPwrSoul said:

OH MY FRIGGIN DAMN! LOL!

IceNine said:

Some threads need their own title. And you know this well Mr. Statistics

Why is this on a SEPARATE thread? Is your "soul" tea more special than the other teas (including green) discussed elsewhere?

NuPwrSoul said:

We can get into a pissing match if we drink a whole lot of tea.

all one need do is have that HENDRIX experience...
i'm not sayin it's a COLOR THANG, but it is a thang
that is directly connected to being RAISED ON KOOL AIDE
and GRITS and CREAM OF WHEAT...
so when the question of SWEET TEA comes up, YOU KNOW IT!!!
SWEET TEA of any kind is gonna take some gettin use to if
you clueless...

IceNine said:

Yeah if you not careful tea will make you lose all your water.

NuPwrSoul said:

And if you are not careful in the water, you might drown.

teller said:

You have your tea at your restaurant, and I'll have mine at Sylvia's

IceNine said:

Or be baptised and saved.

NuPwrSoul said:

Or just get wet and look stupid.

00769BAD said:

Somebody bring this man a tall glass of SWEET TEA!!!

cheering in the background

red kool-aid!

00769BAD said:

Hell I'm makin some cream of wheat now LOL

cherry kool-aid...oh, yeah

"HEY KOOL-AID!"===BLAM THRU THE WALLS! BUSTIN UP SHIT--WRECKIN PEOPLES HOUSES...WHY AM I SHOUTING?

rdhull said:

lmao!!!

rdhull said:

Mr. Kool Aid the original jughead.

IceNine said:

LaVisHh said:

Kool Aid? Never had it, is it any good? I don't think it made it over here.

What flavours are there?

sawatdiikhrap said:

Aw daym you missed out man.

I'm sure quite a few people's diabetes is probably rooted in kool-aid if their doctors really check into their history.

Sweet tea is a southern thing. I LOVE sweet tea. You could get it anywhere in NC, where I'm from.

I'm very sad to say that here in FL, there is no sweet tea.

If you travel up to the panhandle, you'll find some!!!

For some reason this thread reminded me of Emeril Live. I was watching it last night. He was making Jumbalaya and other stuff, I think kidney beans. The way they make it in Louisiana. Damn, most of the stuff he cooks always looks so damn good. I've never made or even tasted Jumbalaya (seafood gumbo is a different story), but he made it look easy and good.

Oh, he put a big ol' hamhock in the kidney beans pot. He's the kind of cook that skimps on nothing.