Traveling mercies

navy2010
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:08:50 +0000

Definitions of tea drinks from a southern viewpoint:

Sweet tea = sweetened with simple syrup, served over ice with lemon- a true southerners drink - glass is never half empty or its considered bad manners

Sweetened iced tea = what yankees do to tea with a packet of sugar & a spoon

Iced tea = what WAY north yankees drink



Ah JM— you are forgetting two “northern” favorites!!!

FIrst, there is Long Island Ice Tea…drink a few of those and you are lucky to find your way home!!!

Then there is the “Half-and-Half”…made famous by the residents of Cold Spring Harbor on LI…half “ice tea” and half “lemonaide”…and a whole 44 oz for $1.50!!! Find it at the Cold Spring Harbor Deli on main street…then shop away…your 1/2 & 1/2 will last you the whole morning, from one end of town to the other!!