"Pete C." > wrote in message
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>
> cybercat wrote:
>>
>> Strange time of year, maybe, but I like it. (Some time back I tried a
>> Starbuck's Frappacino and liked it, but not the huge amount of sugar or
>> the
>> $ cost.)
>>
>> Good strong, fresh coffee with natural vanilla, sweetened and lightened
>> to
>> taste with your choice of sweetener and creamer, over ice.
>>
>> I use Splenda and 2% milk.
>>
>> I'm drinking it now, and imagine I will have one more and won't see
>> sleepy
>> time until dawn. Okay because I'm working. If it were slightly thickened
>> like the Starbucks kind, it might be better, but I don't want to add crap
>> to
>> it.
>
> It's been interesting watching the beverage migration of iced coffee
> from the northeast (or perhaps both coasts) in to the middle of the US
> and the parallel migration of sweet tea from the south out to the
> coasts. As little as 5 years ago many folks in the south had no idea
> what iced coffee was and the same was true for sweet tea in the
> northeast.

Hmmm, I had not thought about that. Do northerners now drink iced tea year
round as we do in the south? I remember when I first came down here, I had
to remember that "tea" meant "iced tea" and if I wanted it hot I had to
order "hot tea" and if I wanted it unsweetened I had to ask for "unsweetened
tea." I just tried the starbuck's iced coffee because it was there, cold in
the cooler by the checkout, and I was dragging tail.