In the South East, they bring you sweetened (usually far too sweetened for my tastes) iced tea. This is amazingly universal.

I live in NC and have been probing the border for years.

For “nicer” restaurants, the universal sweet tea boundary seems to be precisely at the NC/VA border.

  • GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt
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    1 year ago

    In Texas, they would ask whether you want sweet or unsweet and you’d get a glass of iced tea. The closer you are to Louisiana, the sweeter the tea.

    You have to specify hot tea, if that’s what you want.

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      1 year ago

      Same in Missouri. It used to be that they’d assume sweet tea, but that’s changed in the past 10 years.