[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Texan tea

[Amanda]

Dave said:

> > > Facts you know in Texas:
> > >
> > Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when
> you're 2.
>
> That seems wrong.  Do you dress up as cowboys and throw bales of
> coffee into the harbor, too?

The list was obviously written by someone with a bit of cultural blindness,
and my own kicked in, so I was not specific enough. *Iced* tea, you
Philistine.

Hot tea is consumed by New Agers, little old Southern ladies, and people in
Chinese restaurants who are trying to impress the waitstaff. Iced tea is not
served or consumed from mugs, it belongs in tall glasses beaded with
condensation, visions of which shimmer in front of the eyes like a mirage
after working in the yard for a couple hours in the 95+ weather.
[Condensation does not happen in west Texas, by the way, which is why they
can run those cheap evaporative coolers. In east Texas, condensation happens
so much you can't put anything even slightly cool down onto a wooden surface
for more than a few seconds. Where I live, it varies.]

In any case, hot tea drunk from mugs is not something that would occur to
most Texans of the ilk who made this list.

--Amanda