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

submitted 1 year ago by PetDinosaurs to c/asklemmy

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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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[–] FrankTheHealer 8 points 1 year ago

I'm from Ireland. Asking for tea in a restaurant will usually get you a cup of English breakfast tea or an Irish variant of from a brand like Lyons, Barry's, Bewley's, or Fallon's. Its a slightly different flavor to typical English breakfast tea, sometimes called Irish breakfast tea.

You would usually get a small pot of hot tea, with a cup, a small jug of milk and some sachets of sugar. Most people take milk and the equivalent of 2 tea spoons of sugar.

Sometimes I prefer coffee, but if I dont feel well or am stressed, I tend to reach for this kind of tea since that's what I grew up with.