Welcome to Dixie Drive, the main drag through that little town up the road. Make a right or left onto any side street and who knows what or who you might come across. These folks are as unpredictable as a squirrel in the street on a hot summer's day and they don't care what you think about it. They're not hurting anybody, (except maybe themselves). they're just playing their cards with the hand they were dealt, so stand back and we'll see what they come up with next. The folks near Dixie Drive might reside in some backwater southern town and some of their weirdness may be particularly "Southern" but don't kid yourself, this is Small Town America: the same animal from Portland East to Portland West. Woof!
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Three Steps Over Japan said, 5 months ago
So, basically, rain runoff from asphalt.
JohnnyDiego said, 5 months ago
Someone please explain “Sweet Tea” to this New England Yankee.
Three Steps Over Japan said, 5 months ago
@JohnnyDiego
Colored sugar water with infinite refills. Has the same appeal as grits and rock biscuits.
Rich Powell
said, 5 months ago
Take two sips and they’re at you with a refill. Can’t explain it, Johnny. It’s so damned sweet it makes your teeth hurt. If you want it without sugar, you have to ask for “unsweet” tea.
Rich Powell
said, 5 months ago
Note: the Flintstone mobile
celecca
said, 5 months ago
@JohnnyDiego
Swee’tea is a deliciously refreshing cold tea, with the consistency of syrup (due to the cup of sugar per half gallon), which when poured over the requisite number of ice cubes (please, NOT crushed), soothes one’s parched throat and dries off a dewy forehead from the scorching heat of a Southern afternoon. In Southern restaurants the waitress will refill your glass when it is only half empty from the time you enter to the time you leave. You must specify unsweet tea if you prefer it; it is a given if you order iced tea, it will be sweet.
celecca
said, 5 months ago
and, BTW, due to my diabetes, I am no longer allowed to drink the heavenly elixir, and I haven’t found a suitable substitute sweetener yet.
Notsoastute said, 5 months ago
@JohnnyDiego
Nectar of the gods.
JohnnyDiego said, 5 months ago
@Rich Powell
If you want it without sugar, you have to ask for “unsweet” tea.
I can understand that. I’m originally from the West Coast and moved to Boston in 1973. The first day I visited a deli where I ordered a “cup of coffee.”
I was asked, “Coffee regular?” and knowing I take my coffee black I said, “Yes, regular.”
I got coffee with cream and sugar. From now on I order, “Coffee Black.”
Rich Powell
said, 5 months ago
@JohnnyDiego
Americans are wonderfully, consistently weird.
starlilies said, 5 months ago
Living up north, I found that they love sweet tea. Living down south, they love unsweetened tea. But you still have to ask if it’s sweetened or not! Sometimes sweet tea tastes just like unsweetened tea with added suger – which is NOT the same as regular sweet tea! I just stick with water….
BonitaV
said, 5 months ago
Sweet tea… the house wine of the South.
Notsoastute said, 5 months ago
@BonitaV
What a wonderful way of defining it….well done.
mvw said, 5 months ago
Sweet tea, the #1 beverage of the south and the #1 reason that beer is the #2 beverage.
WallFlower05 said, 5 months ago
@starlilies
What part of the North and South did you visit? The GA/TN area LOVES Sweet Tea- it is what we live off of. My Dad’s family up North (WI area) drinks hardly any tea.