Nope. Sweet tea’s the only thing the South got right. Tea, with as much sugar as you can possible dissolve in it, with ice is one of the best things in the world (as long as you limit your intake). Guess I’ll get kicked out of NY for this.
Yeah, that ice has a lot of calories in it, so gotta watch it. 
This sounds like a country music group that my Granny would have really gotten into.
If it can be eaten, someone will fry it for you. I saw fried Oreos at a music festival awhile back. I was too scared to try them.
Come on over and I’ll fry you up a batch of deep fried dill pickle chips. YUM!
Then you should stay out of Snook, Texas.
I miss my grandmother’s fried cornbread. She told me it was just plain cornmeal, salt and water, so I should be able to duplicate that, right? But when I try it doesn’t taste the same. There’s no telling what she used to fry it in.
With ranch dressing- mmm.
I’ve had some sodas sweetened with sucralose, which is sold by itself under the name “Splenda”. It’s good, pretty close to sugar, infinitely better than aspartame.
I drink a lot of pre-made iced tea in 2-liters because I’m lazy. It has corn syrup, somewhat less than in soda, and lemon flavoring. It still has too much sugar though. I wish I could find a brand with little to no sugar.
Two words. Boiled Peanuts.
I explained sweet tea over teh phone to my wife, as I was in the mood for some. She got the brew the tea part ok, but she asked “How much sugar?” I said “I don’t know, just pour until it looks like a lot. If you think you added too much in there, add a little more just to be sure.”
Turned out great. 
I like sweet tea, and I was born in Wisconsin.
Tea without sugar is like…oatmeal without sugar. It can be ingested, but shouldn’t.
Probably lard!
Well I grew up in the deepest of deep (MS) and I don’t understand all of this craziness about sweet tea! Of couse we all drank it as kids, that’s true, but I always remember having to add sugar to my tea in so many places! Now…if we went to the local catfish house, we’d obviously get sweet tea, but a normal restaurant? Not always.
I dunno, I just have memories of having to add sugar to my tea 
while I was a child. I also never seemed to encouter this anti sweet-tea mentality!
Is it deep-fried? If so, it’s probably lard. If it’s pan-fried, I bet she used bacon grease. My grandmother always had a can of bacon grease on her counter that she just kept adding to. I’m a little more civilized, I keep mine in the fridge.
And make my tea sweetened, please. Make it sun tea and I’ll be your friend forever.
I have always drank my iced tea unsweetened. I grew up that way, and I prefer it that way, even now.
We were at our neighbor’s house having a cookout several years ago, and they asked our daughter if she’d like soda, Kool-Aid or iced tea.
She opted for the iced tea.
She had never had sweetened tea before, and she didn’t know it was sweetened, as she just assumed that everyone drank it like we do.
Little did she know.
She took one big gulp and I swear, she turned 3 different shades of green. She started gagging, and after recovering from the shock of the sweet tea, she had to go home and lay down.
It was just too much for her.
We still laugh about that one!
It was pan-fried, crispy on the outside and mushy in the middle. I need to save up some bacon grease and try that.
This sounds a lot like my mom’s to be honest. I can ask her for a recipe if you like? It’s really good and it has a nice brown color on the outside and yellowy on the inside. Really good with butter.
Yes, to the bacon grease, but be sure to strain out the bits.
Also, my mom/grandmother always used white cornmeal, not yellow. They were from Kentucky/Souther Indiana.
Sweet tea also has to steep for a while, as I recall. Just so you can get that special “cooked” flavor.
I like sweet tea… I make great sweet tea… but the amount of sugar in some people’s amazes and disgusts me. My tea is about 1 1/4 cups of sugar to every gallon of tea (maybe a smidge less… it’s really a heaping cup). There’s 16 8 ounce glasses in a gallon… that works out to a bit more than a tablespoon of sugar per glass. Plenty. That’s about 60 calories per serving, and you drink it iced so it’s even further dilluted. Plenty. Yet I get tea regularly in restaurants that makes soft drinks the less sweet alternative, which is just wrong. There should be some kind of decree… I feel.
It’s people like you what cause unrest.
I feel another Great Unpleasantness coming on.
No sir. I’m a tea lover in every way including drinking large quantities of sweet tea in the summer, and I’m NY born and bred. In fact, I am drinking sweet tea now and loving it. Not a big fan of states rights, though, so it ends there for me.
I do have to say, up north here, when you order iced tea in a restaurant it isn’t even worth it because it’s damn near always unsweetened, and that sucks because the sugar never dissolves right in cold tea. Grrrr.