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WileyWapiti Member
Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 298 Location: NW Colorado
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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Ahh....Sweet Tea...One of the many beuties of the South! I love it when I get to go visit our Southern Brother's and Sister's - most places you don't even need to ask for sweet tea, as it isn't an option and they will look at you funny if you order unsweetened. My wife caught the bug at a Shoney's in Nashville, we haven't looked back.
Our company has offices all over the country, when we get our folks in for training from that area (assigned to the SouthEast region), we usually have to endure their pleas for help in locating a place that serves sweet tea.
I have to admit, that is the only kind of cold tea you get in our house.
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SwampFox Super Member
Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 1040 Location: Destin, Florida
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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I am a bit surprised that no one from our neck of the woods has mentioned the champagne of iced tea, a great southern tradition, Sun Tea. Sun tea is true southern, made by steeping a handful of tea bags is a big glass pickle jug full of water, on the back porch or back deck, in the morning sun. When the tea reaches the right color to your taste, mix sugar with the warm tea and serve over ice for lunch and supper, no mixing with water, you drink it right from the jug. The tea is not bruised by boiling when fixed in this manner and has a very smooth and distinctive, light taste.
I remember well the quail dinners I had as a kid at my Uncle's home near Sand Mountain in North Alabama. Fried fresh quail breast, gravy, biscuits, mashed potatoes, fresh green black-eyed peas, sliced fresh garden tomatoes and sun tea.
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11391 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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Sun Tea...NO sugar thank you...Been doing sun tea sense my mother started us on it and she was born in Washington state. Southern Idea?
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15714 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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SwampFox Super Member
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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Bushy drinks tea? Naw, he is a coffee dude.
Ed
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Bushmaster Super Member
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con10der Rookie Member
Joined: Oct 17, 2007 Posts: 15
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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i don't use anything with sugar,but that does'nt mean i can't enjoy some darn good tea.i simply substitute splenda which has zero calories and tastes EXACTLY like sugar,because it's made from sugar.the sweeter the better,this is my only vice as far as sweets go
jim
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A17Shooter Super Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 322 Location: California Foothills (Gold Country)
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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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Didn't know that anyone drank tea without lots of sugar until I left Oklahoma. Course I didn't know you could buy whiskey in a store until then either. Thought you had to get whiskey from the bootlegger. Oh well.
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English Mike Super Member
Joined: Jan 08, 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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Seeing as I'm English, it's almost a religion to drink tea - the proper stuff & not that 'orrible muck they put in tea bags
I must get through a gallon a day; all made from Crown Assam leaf tea, brewed for at least five minutes in a proper teapot & drunk from a large mug with two sugars & milk.
At the strength I drink it, my insides are probably better tanned than good leather.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15714 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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English Mike wrote: |
all made from Crown Assam leaf tea, brewed for at least five minutes in a proper teapot & drunk from a large mug with two sugars & milk.
At the strength I drink it, my insides are probably better tanned than good leather. |
I'm a bit like you Mike...can't pass up a nice "cuppa". I use Twinings Tea, although we do grow some nice tea out here in Oz as well. As you say...steeped for 3 - 5 minutes in a tea pot then served in a pre warmed mug...milk, NO sugar. Only use sugar in black tea.
Another tea I enjoy is a good quality Chinese Green Tea. Put the tea leaves in a strainer and run boiling water through them straight into your mug...no milk or sugar. Has a very fine delicate flavour that is very refreshing on a hot afternoon.
You sound like you drink your tea at the same strength as my Mother. In fact, it wouldn't suprise me to find that she chews tea leaves, she has it that strong. As for the tannin...I'm quite happy to get my dosages of tannin from either tea or red wine...I'm not fussy.
Cheers, Vince
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11391 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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Yup...You got it...They're English (one Aussie-English)
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15714 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Elvis Super Member
Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 9253 Location: south island New Zealand
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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just spent half an hour deleting this mongrel and annitaspankers spam...they were coming in faster than I could wipe them.....need a cuppa tea now.
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Elvis Super Member
Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 9253 Location: south island New Zealand
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tea anyone ?? |
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again today....persistant little pest....
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