On 2/14/2020 1:17 PM, Bruce wrote:

> On TV, I saw an English woman order a tea in Texas somewhere. She was
> expecting a cup of hot tea. She got a bucket of cold, sweet
> something-or-other with a straw.
>
A hot cup of tea would likely have been some hot water sloshed into a
thick, cold cup, with a teabag set on the saucer.

This is why my mother never ordered tea in the US - she said that bad
coffee was more tolerable than undrinkable tea-water.