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If you ask for "tea" at a restaurant, what happens and where do you live? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the South East, they bring you sweetened (usually far too sweetened for my tastes) iced tea. This is amazingly universal.

I live in NC and have been probing the border for years.

For "nicer" restaurants, the universal sweet tea boundary seems to be precisely at the NC/VA border.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They show me a QR code laminated onto the table. Then I ask if they have a paper menu, and they sheepishly say no. Then I ask them what kind of tea they have, and they list a bunch of things involving citrus. Then I buy one of the citrus monstrosities to be polite, and never go there again.

Then I go home and make some basic green tea, and I follow the steeping instructions because overstepped green tea makes me nauseous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish we only had a dystopian future and not the dystopian present.

Anyhow, I don't see how my kid doesn't have it worse.