Huh, "iced tea" in my mind is different from cold herbal teas, for example.
Yeah, the only flavor sweet tea should have is from a slice of lemon or some mint. I will drink flavored teas, but I don't think of them as traditionally southern.
I have eaten at a Varsity! In Atlanta. I am ashamed that I put Paula Deen as a Southern chef, because I am not a fan, but I didn't figure anyone would know the other ones I would name (Mildred Council aka Mama Dip from Chapel Hill or Mrs. Wilkes from Savannah).
item on the Varsity menu
Pretty sure hot dogs are what you go there for.
My brother's been paid $100 to "guard" tailgating setups (with flatscreens set up to get satellite, gas grills, generators, serious gourmet grilling spread, oh, and free beer) for Alabama football games while the fans go to the game. He eats and drinks himself stupid.
It's football. It's Alabama.
And I still can't remember which team belongs to which city/collegiate institution, or who he's suppose to be rooting for. My nephews have definite preferences. And only one was born there (but the other only spent 2 years in TX.)
Oh man! I should've put in Mama Dip. (I put in Alton Brown's Mamaw.)
That was fun!
I picked NASCAR for another thing you'd tail gate for. And here in St Albans practically a short jaunt from the Canadian border I've found TWO restaraunts that have fresh brewed sweet and unsweet tea! One even has grits, although I have not tried them.
I'm thinking Paula Deen is going to show up as the famous Southern chef but I picked Jeff Besh.
I put Paula Deen, AND I LOVE HER.
When I worked at a bagel shop down in NC, we had 4 vats of tea. Sweet and unsweet in caf and decaf. Always were pouring out the unsweet when I worked closing. You MUST add the sugar when the tea is still hot. Else you don't get the syrupness. God, we used a lot of sugar.
I picked NASCAR for another thing you'd tail gate for.
And they have some mega setups too.
I left off the Athens restaurant and the tailgate, because I honestly couldn't think of one. Even though we do tailgate at baseball games, it occurs to me belatedly.
And here in St Albans practically a short jaunt from the Canadian border I've found TWO restaraunts that have fresh brewed sweet and unsweet tea!
Little known fact: sweet tea can be pretty readily found in Ontario. God knows why.
That WAS fun.
I put "sweet tea" for flavor of iced tea, which is also cheating, probably.
Call me a cheata'
I, too, said Paula Deen.
I chose French as one of the represented cultures. Thinking of the Acadians.
My father's family came from England, but spent a half century (and beyond) in Mississippi. Hattiesburg, to be specific. I would never consider myself Southern, but many of those answers came pretty easily to me. Something in the genes, I guess.
My choice for a food not eaten in the North...probably wrong, but there you have it...okra.
