cybercat wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ster.com...
> >
> > 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?

Northerners always drank iced tea. It think it's still pretty warm
weather only as far as home consumption goes.

> 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.

Until fairly recently if you asked for iced coffee in southern states
they looked at you kinda cross-eyed and had no idea what you were
talking about.

Until recently in northern states if you asked for sweet tea, you got
sweetened iced tea, which of course is not the same thing as sweet tea.