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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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[–] B16_BR0TH3R 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, friend, but it seems you've missed the point, which is that something like "tea" can mean wildly different things - as evidenced by the contents of this thread. That's why you specify whether you're asking for a teabag, a cup of tea, iced tea, green tea, chai tea, a box of tea or whatever. Tuna, however, is always a fish. The concept is simple and so is the difference between the two.

Do you get it now? It's really not that hard.

[–] Leviathan 1 points 1 year ago

a teabag, a cup of tea, iced tea, green tea, chai tea, a box of tea

Minus the iced tea, which is a transformed product you would order by name, those are all just tea. Like most restaurants they would bring you a cup of hot water and some varied sachets including everything you just mentioned and all would be good.

It's like if you ordered coffee and they brought you a tiramisú, you'd be like

Slaps forehead I should've been more specific, silly me

I don't think you're getting it and you seem to be a little agitated, are you ok?