Way OT Couldn't believe it......
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Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I was so dumbfounded by this I don't expect anyone to believe it, but it's true. We were at a big chain restaurant. The waiter came to take our drink order, I ordered a regular tea, and she ordered sweet tea. He comes back a few minutes later and said, "I'm sorry, but we are out of sweet tea." I just kind of stared at him with a blank look I guess because he just apologized again. So I asked him, "But you have regular tea?" Oh yes, he said, we have regular tea. I asked, do you have sugar in the building? Yes, we do, he said. So I said, Do you need the recipe? That got me a kick in the shin under the table, but it was worth it.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I thought you couldn't make real sweet tea with granulated sugar... I thought it had to be made with sugar syrup...TedH wrote:I was so dumbfounded by this I don't expect anyone to believe it, but it's true. We were at a big chain restaurant. The waiter came to take our drink order, I ordered a regular tea, and she ordered sweet tea. He comes back a few minutes later and said, "I'm sorry, but we are out of sweet tea." I just kind of stared at him with a blank look I guess because he just apologized again. So I asked him, "But you have regular tea?" Oh yes, he said, we have regular tea. I asked, do you have sugar in the building? Yes, we do, he said. So I said, Do you need the recipe? That got me a kick in the shin under the table, but it was worth it.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I had a Mexican restaurant (a national chain) tell me they were out of limes because they were out of season...
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I had a waitress tell me they didn'thave any limes after I just seen them cut up in a container on the bar.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
HERE'S YOUR SIGN!
Of course I usually don't make fun of the wait staff until after the meal is over.
I guess I's superstitious about some things.
Of course I usually don't make fun of the wait staff until after the meal is over.
I guess I's superstitious about some things.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
It's amazing how many "bartenders" can't make a margarita or sidecar (or similar dringk) without Sweet & Sour, yet stand there with a bucket of Lemons & Limes...
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I think sweet tea is a southern invention (correct me if I am wrong). When I was a kid, 50 or so years ago, we never had sweet tea. If you wanted your tea to be sweet you put some suger in it. I prefer it straight, no sugar, no lemon.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
You are correct. You can get by with adding sugar after the fact, but it dissolves better if the sugar is mixed into the tea while it is brewing --- if Ted's restaurant is accustomed to making it that way, maybe that is why they were out.Cimarron wrote:
I think sweet tea is a southern invention (correct me if I am wrong). When I was a kid, 50 or so years ago, we never had sweet tea. If you wanted your tea to be sweet you put some suger in it. I prefer it straight, no sugar, no lemon.
Adding sugar after the fact can produce the desired effect, but you usually end up with a ton of sugar in the bottom of the glass too
(This was told to me by my mother, who hails from Georgia --- i myself drink it straight with no sugar also though )
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
One of the best kept secrets in the world is tea with lime instead of lemon. Everyone ought to try it sometime. With or without the "sweet". Used to be i would go to Sonic and order half tea half limeaid...they used to look at me funny, but others got to ordering it and now the wait staff just knows what to do.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I grew up drinking lime in my tea with my family, and still drink it that way. I enjoy lemon too. We always drank tea with sweet n low instead of sugar, but I have since seen the light, and now brew my tea with sugar. I'm very picky about my tea, as it's just about the only thing I drink. I can still drink it with the pink stuff, but it just isn't the same.Kansas Ed wrote:One of the best kept secrets in the world is tea with lime instead of lemon. Everyone ought to try it sometime. With or without the "sweet". Used to be i would go to Sonic and order half tea half limeaid...they used to look at me funny, but others got to ordering it and now the wait staff just knows what to do.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
you're like Jack Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces".
"I'll tell you what living is. You get up when you feel like it. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is."
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
Yup! The Old Man is the one who got me started on it. The first time he ordered it I thought he'd finally gone off his nut. As usual, he wasn't as wrong as I thought he was...Kansas Ed wrote:One of the best kept secrets in the world is tea with lime instead of lemon.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I went to Nashville, TN a few years back and I was introduced to sweet tea and now I go looking for it if I want a drink at the local stop and rob. Growing up we used to have tea, but only during the summer. I drank mine with sugar we didn't have the luxury of lemons/limes then.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
I like my tea sweet with three fingers of cranberry juice. Use the "lite" juice and Splenda since I'm diabetic.
I remember being in Grafton N. D. back in about '70 waiting to load potatoes. A LEO gave me and another trucker a ride to a hotel restaurant downtown where we ordered breakfast. Other trucker ordered "sweet milk" (to differentiate from buttermilk we in the south call it sweet milk). He saw the waitress didn't understand so repeated "sweet milk" several times. She finally told him she would bring the milk but he would have to put the sugar in himself. Got a big laugh from me.
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I remember being in Grafton N. D. back in about '70 waiting to load potatoes. A LEO gave me and another trucker a ride to a hotel restaurant downtown where we ordered breakfast. Other trucker ordered "sweet milk" (to differentiate from buttermilk we in the south call it sweet milk). He saw the waitress didn't understand so repeated "sweet milk" several times. She finally told him she would bring the milk but he would have to put the sugar in himself. Got a big laugh from me.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
Surely some of yall are jesting. I don't think there is any other Tea than sweet tea is there? Sugar only. Very best is cooked in a glass jar outside in the sun.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
That would be suntea.Bruce wrote:Very best is cooked in a glass jar outside in the sun.
Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
We are from south east Missouri, the family moved out to California in 53`.
I was disconnected from my southern roots at the tender age of three.
It was many years before I figured out why my family did certain things that the other kids familys did not.
We always had "iced tea" it was never called anything else,except maybe "tea" I could make it myself from about nine years of age,
At times I attempted to order "Tea' at a restaurant when out with the family, and always got what to me was undrinkable straight tea, that I would try to sweeten with poor results.
I chuckle now ,when I realize all those little things from my childhood
and I not realizing just how southern and "Paw Paw" French we were.
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I was disconnected from my southern roots at the tender age of three.
It was many years before I figured out why my family did certain things that the other kids familys did not.
We always had "iced tea" it was never called anything else,except maybe "tea" I could make it myself from about nine years of age,
At times I attempted to order "Tea' at a restaurant when out with the family, and always got what to me was undrinkable straight tea, that I would try to sweeten with poor results.
I chuckle now ,when I realize all those little things from my childhood
and I not realizing just how southern and "Paw Paw" French we were.
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I went to KFC once and orders a Liver Dinner (back when they still had them on the menu). The girl told me, "SORRY WE ONLY SERVE CHICKEN HERE"!
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
Yep, I'm also constanly amazed by the blatent lack of management skills, made apparrant when a restaurant "runs out" of a staple on their menu...............
I can't count the times I've been in some place, ordered (say) a bowl of chowder / soup, and was told they had run out - and this, in a Chowder House ! !
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
Thats the way we do it to.....all day in the sun.....Bruce wrote:Surely some of yall are jesting. I don't think there is any other Tea than sweet tea is there? Sugar only. Very best is cooked in a glass jar outside in the sun.
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I get real grumpy when a menu item is listed, but seldom available. Our local B (ob) E (vans) is real bad about this with the chicken pot pies, and their Memphis chicken. If they don't have it or aren't going to fix it right then, take it off the menu.
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Re: Way OT Couldn't believe it......
awp101 wrote:
I had a Mexican restaurant (a national chain) tell me they were out of limes because they were out of season...
Had 'em tell me at Taco Bell they forgot to cook any ground beef and therefore could not serve anything that required it that day.
Have had folk at McDonald's tell me they are not serving any hamburgers that day due to fact they forgot to order same.