Eh. . . Here’s about as close a cite as I’ve found on this board.
But you probably already knew that.
Thanks!
I grew up in NY and when I moved to Indiana for grad school, my jaw almost hit the ground when I heard people using the word ‘pop.’
I honest to God thought it was a word that only existed in black and white TV shows - I felt like I had travelled back in time about 60 years. It still makes me want to laugh out loud whenever I hear it…
Must have been other out of state students. I’ve lived here my entire life and it is only Coke (meaning any type of beverage) or Soda.
I’ll concede, there are pockets of the state… NW has Chicago regionalisms, and far South aligns more with Kentucky. But for the most part the state doesn’t use Pop.
When I first moved to Nashville, I was confused the first few times I was offered a “cold drink”. My idea of a cold drink is anything drinkable that’s also cold, preferably with ice. But no, they just meant cokes and stuff.
BTW, I moved there from just a couple of counties to the south. I knew people that referred to all carbonated drinks as “cokes”, but usually they had to be brown.
I didn’t hear sweet tea called that until they started serving it at fast food places. We always called it “ice tea,” and it was sweetened but not overly sweet.
I’m pretty positive that Sweet Tea is not trademarked or copyrighted so if there is any sugar in your tea you can rest assured that it is indeed sweet tea if not Sweet Tea. It’s not my bag but if you like it, go for it. But for the record, the fact that other people have different preferences in terms of tea or barbecue or soda doesn’t mean that they’re weird or barbaric. They’re just different. It’s fine to be proud of your cultural legacy but let’s not get overly dramatic.
Stop confusing the Aggies, please.
Perhaps it’s a hot climate thing. When I was in Marocco, the standard beverage offered was really hot mint tea with a LOT of sugar in it. I guess about a much as the tea discussed in the OP.
The first time I met a new friend who had just moved from Lubbock, he referred to me, singular, as “y’all”. (In 1972.) Specifically, “Y’all look like you’re fixin’ to lose your wallet out of your back pocket.”
No, “y’all” occupies a strange medium between singular and plural, the plurality. One refers to the group in generalities as “y’all”, as in “y’all been swimmin in my lake” without necessarily indicting every single member of the group. “Y’all” is simply a way to address the collective. If, however, the action ascribed applies to every single member of a group, “all y’all” may be used.
The only Iced Tea I ever had was brewed Lipton or Lipton Suntea, the sugar was added by the teaspoon. I think sweettea is the poor white trash version of the Kool-ade binary.
God, sun tea is like the inverse of sweet tea. Good tasting, but they can’t hardly sell it in stores.
Good point. I wasn’t raised to call it “sweet tea.” It was just “tea.” The sweetness was assumed unless otherwise specified. (For that matter, the “iced” was assumed unless otherwise specified.)
Yea, But YaSee, if you think about it, this is just another opportunity… They just haven’t tried ti make a large enough jar for mass production of Suntea. I’m thinking some of the same techniques or tech that they use to cultivate allgaes on a mass scale might cross pollinate or offer inroads. Or Hell, I’d like to see my hometown boys at Libbey Glass do good, and cast the world’s largest glass jar.We had a nice gallon jar with flowers on it that made some excellent suntea. You can even do it in the winter, with the right exposure,
You know why Aggies can’t make Kool-Aid?
We can’t get two quarts of water into them little packets!
You’d be wrong.
And you can never work in a pharmacy because you can’t figure out how to get the pill bottles in the typewriter!
Geez, those ‘blond’ jokes get a lot of mileage if you transfer 'em, don’t they? 
For about a year and a half before I moved from Chicago to NC I made almost monthly weekend trips here, during which time I developed a taste for sweet tea (among other regional things). Shortly before the actual move I was in Columbus OH with some friends and we went to a Waffle House for dinner. I saw that they had sweet tea on the menu so I ordered a glass and was promptly warned by one of my friends, who didn’t know about my visits to NC, that it might be too sweet for my taste.
Oh, but it’s so much fun to do it! And I’m not even a Teasip.
Ice tea is the most popular non-alcoholic restaurant drink here. With free refills, of course. For most of my years in Texas, unsweetened tea has been the standard; perhaps we’re on the Border of Sweet Tea Territory. Now some places offer sweet tea, as well. Which makes sense, since it’s hard to dissolve sugar in cold tea. But I’ve always preferred just plain ice tea. Although I might try Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka.
And I’ve always thought y’all was strictly plural. And “all y’all” has a bit of a Louisiana sound.
One other thing about a word that’s shown up a couple of times: “Cold” For some Southerners, when an “l” follows a long “o”, the “l” is silent, and the “o” is extended, so instead of “cold,” it might come out as “cohhd”. Not so common anymore, but I did hear that quite a bit maybe thru the 1980s.