Sweet Tea (was:Need FanFic Help - Deep South)

[tongapeach]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "alora" <chrisnlorrie at y...> 
wrote:
> ahh yes!  Tea sweetens so much better when warm!  I'm in Texas and 
> we all drink sweet tea, except for the transplanted people.  
> Everytime you go to their house, they have unsweetened and it is so 
> nasty because it takes me six or seven packages of sugar to get it 
> just a little sweet!  That drives me crazy.  Something else I have 
> noticed that amuses me is that transplants call Coke "pop."  Here 
in 
> the south, everything is Coke - it doesn't matter if you bring 
> Sprite, Pepsi, root beer or actual Coke, we just refer to it all 
> as "coke."  Hehe.  When someone is having a party and you ask what 
> you can bring, they all say, "coke."  That means bring any sort of 
> carbonated drink ;).  The differences as you move about the country 
> are interesting.


Heh, don't go north of the Mason-Dixie line... you ask for sweet tea 
up there and they look at you like you're completely off your rocker. 
Drove me insane, being a transplant from the south... 

Tonga