Whatever it is, I HATE it.

And Dahntahn. I want to go dahntahn, but the roads are a bit slippy, yinz guyz.

Pittsburghese is what you get when you cross Scotts-irish with Polish.

Virginians and Carolinians (both kinds) do not drink tea that sweet. The northern border of Georgia is about the line where tea starts to get disgusting, although the disease is creeping into southern Tennessee.

The Japanese know how to do it right. I am having a tea right now made by Kirin breweries that is only 15 calories per 100 mL, meaing a 20 oz bottle would only be about 89 calories (contrast with something disgusting such as Snapple Tea at 250 calories for 20 oz). The perfect hint of sweetness to counter the bitterness of the lightly fermented red tea. It comes in lemon and milk flavors as well.

It’s simply “all y’all”.

It would only be “all a y’all” if you had someone who was actually trying to pronounce “all of you all”. And that doesn’t happen. At least not around here.

And I do live in the state that is entirely contained within Appalachia.

And anyone who says y’uns gets a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Iced tea is ideally made by placing 5 bags of black tea inside a 1 gallon glass (not plastic!) jar and set out in the sunshine until the jar is dark. It should then be taken inside, tea bags removed and refrigerated. It should be served with no more than 3 one inch cubes of ices per 8oz glass. As Jeri mentions, a slice of lemon in a glass of iced tea is acceptable; however no, I repeat NO sweeteners are acceptable.

Hot tea can have a single spoon of honey added to it, if one is sick with a sore throat. Or the faint of heart can add a small amount of milk, but only if they put the milk in the cup before the tea (reversing the order curdles the milk).

You have failed to mention the kissin’ cousins to sweettea (it runs together like one word). There’s instant tea (Nathan’s Nestea) and there’s fruit-flavored tea. Both are high on my ick scale as well.

Plain basic brewed black tea (or sun-brewed black tea) with lots of ice. A lemon wedge is acceptable but not required. A hint of splenda or sugar is ok for the faint of heart.

I ordered McD’s iced coffee in the ‘plain’ or ‘regular’ variety once last summer. Ewwww… sweet enough to gag me. Apparently ‘plain’ just means unflavored sweetness.

No debate will be tolerated.