[HPFGU-OTChatter] Need FanFic Help - Deep South

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 2:54 PM -0500 7/3/03, Terry James wrote:
>
>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.

Speaking as someone whose paternal grandmother did it without sugar 
and whose mother did it with, there are good points and bad points, 
tastewise, about both methods.  Sweet tea can be awfully syrupy, 
especially if the person who brewed it had a heavy hand - I often had 
to add lots of ice and wait for it to melt halfway before drinking 
it.  On the other hand, unsweet tea never does get quite as sweet, 
although vigorous use of an iced tea spoon does eventually get most 
of it to dissolve (especially if you get superfine sugar instead of 
the usual plain granulated - in the Bad Old Days, you'd have someone 
pound the sugar in a mortar and pestle until it was fine-ground!).

Then there are those of us who actually prefer it unsweetened . . . I 
won't even mention the abomination of the pseudo-Belles who use 
aspartame instead of sugar in their sweet tea . . .

Besides, there's no good way to make sweet tea out of sun tea, and I 
prefer that method of brewing over hot steeping, anyway.  :)


>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.

And it gives him something to have the house-elves do when they're 
not waiting on him hand and foot - it takes a lot of elbow-grease to 
keep a full set of silver polished at all times in the Southern 
humidity.

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