[HPFGU-OTChatter] Need FanFic Help - Deep South

[Terry James]

>
> >Also on the
> >tray would probably
> >be cloth napkins (NEVER paper) but no sugar; real southern iced tea has 
>so
> >much sugar in it already that you could pour it on pancakes if you ran 
>out
> >of syrup.
>
>Class break: a plantation owner's iced tea will probably *not*
>already be sweetened.  This is one of the fast ways of telling New
>Money from Old Blood in the South.  There will be a china sugar bowl
>on the tray with a silver sugar spoon in it, and the sugar spoon will
>match the iced tea spoons.  (If the tea were already sweetened, you
>wouldn't get to use your great-grandmother's sugar spoon.)

I guess this is where "class" good taste clashes with "real" good taste, as 
in tasting good.  If you put sugar in iced tea, it won't melt.  It just 
swirls around and dumps on the bottom.  If you put the sugar in while it's 
hot, as you're making it, then let it sit in the refrigerator overnight, it 
tastes WAY better.

But you have a good point about the silverware.  A person as described 
wouldn't really care how his iced tea tasted, as long as it was presented 
correctly.

Terry LJ (who drinks extremely sweet iced tea and uses plasticware--where 
does this put me on the social scale?)

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