On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 2:21:30 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
> On 2020-02-14 12:16 p.m., Bruce wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:10:37 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 9:00:21 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:29:46 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 8:17:19 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:45:15 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> >>>>> > wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> It's widespread use in the food industry is simply because it's cheap. Americans are fat simply because food is cheap. It's all so very simple.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> What a shock that must have been. OTOH, you shouldn't expect to get the same stuff when ordering in a different land. You got to just eat like the locals do and shut the hell up.
> >>>
> >>> True. I just didn't realize "tea" means sweet, cold and a lot of it to
> >>> y'all. And I don't understand why people don't change their ways
> >>> knowing that half the country has diabetes. You're like lemmings,
> >>> cluelessly wobbling towards the abyss.
> >>
> >> Not all y'all but some of y'all. On some parts of the US, it does indeed mean iced, sweetened, tea. Over here, it means either hot or iced. You'll be asked which one you want. We also drink Asian tea which is hot and non-sweetened.
> >
> > Yes, I guess Texas doesn't represent the whole country.
> >
> It thinks it does:-)

Texas is the rest of the country writ large.

If an outsider wants to understand how Americans see ourselves, I
recommend two works of speculative fiction:

1632 by Eric Flint
Disruption Trilogy by R.E. McDermott


Cindy Hamilton