The Brain of Shawn

“Aw, sweety, you’re so cute. Come on, sugar, tell us what y’all really feel. Now, honey-bunch, y’all just relax.”

Where did you think that kind of thing came from?

I like tea with sugar in it. And I’ll bet that it’s got fewer calories than an equal portion of that soda pop. But I prefer to be the one sweetening it.

And, by the way, sweet brown snow? I’ve heard of yellow snow before. Why do Northerners always have to color their snow?

I grew up on
this stuff. I’m pretty sure we drank it at every meal but breakfast. And there was always a pitcher in the fridge.

You just wanted to type y’all a bunch of times didn’t you?

I don’t like sugar in tea of any kind.

I don’t get “Sweet Tea.” Nasty.

Guys, we’ve discussed this before. Its all-a-y’all.

No debate will be tolerated.

Did all-a-y’all get y’all’s sweet tea?

Speaking as one who has lived in both the North and the South, I can honestly say sweat tea is an unholy abomination. Unfortunately, the further one goes South the more likely it is you’ll get sweetened tea if you do not specifically order unsweetened tea. In some heathen lands of the South, there are actually places that don’t even sell unsweetened tea.

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).

What? Art thou mad?

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.

I’m really surprised that Kool-Aid has never made a tea flavored drink.

It’s “all y’all” outside of the panhandle and some heathen parts of Alabama.

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.

And Michelle - it’s “yinz guyz”, not “Y’uns”.

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.

You people are absolutely insane. There is no greater thing of beauty than a tall glass of sweet tea with lemon. God handed the recipe to Moses along with the holy tablets.