Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Praise be to a Southern staple

If you live in the South, you know that there's only one acceptable way to drink tea: long-brewed with enough sugar to make your wisdom teeth ache.

Don't force no hot tea/green tea/organic tea/English tea horse**** on my person. Just gimme this:

"Sweet Tea is a staple of restaurants and homes across the Southeastern United States; so prevalent that a guest has to specifically request 'unsweet' in order to get a brew that won't instantly candy their molars, and enough of a cultural institution that several Representatives in Georgia presented House Bill 819 requiring all food service establishments to serve it. Sure, it was quickly revealed as an April Fools Day prank, but it bespoke the region's reverence for the 'champagne of the South.'"

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