August 8th, 2007 / by josh
Slate on Sweet Tea
Slate on sweet tea. I think I’ve only had lame imitations and never the real thing. Or at least I hope they were lame imitations because they were NAST.
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A good article about Cel-Ray, at Nextbook. Do all religions have their own special beverages? I wonder. Imagine what a funny list we could make, if we were so inclined. But we're not.
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- #Some Russian variations on the new Pepsi logo.
- #Josh I know you were ready to make the new Coke designs your special girlfriend for a while back there, so I wondered if you had opinions on the new Pepsi stuff they've been talking about at Brand New. Like here and here and here.
It's interesting that Pepsi is trying to reinvent their look by pushing it in new and different directions, whereas Coke seems to be simplifying and looking backward. What does it all mean, I wonder.
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3 Comments
August 28th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
If you’ve had has come out of a bottle or had a bitter, tannin-like dry aftertaste, it’s been the fake stuff. I don’t know that it’s found outside of the South, unless a transplanted Southerner made it for you.
The real stuff is so good. It’s ubiquitous enough that you have to specify unsweetened if you don’t want it sweet.
September 27th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
as someone who would marry sweet tea if it were possible, i have to agree with sara and advise you to avoid ANYTHING bottled. the best shit i’ve had was only in alabama or florida during vacations but some restaurants do carry it (buffalo wild wings of all places is one.)
i suggest it warm, because the soothing sweetness almost makes your teeth explode.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Warm sweet tea?
I lived overseas for a while immediately after high school and I was literally horrified that there was no sweet (iced) tea..or, to expand on that, no ice period - anywhere - for any purpose..
Anyway, in our family we classify tea into “unsweet”, “sweet”, and “granny sweet.” I prefer “granny sweet”, but I usually make “sweet” for the kiddos.