Again with the MacDonald's!

[trunks2k]

I love eating lemon slices too but I've never eaten the rind. I didn't know anyone actually did that. I think I'll try it, just for the heck of it.

Lemon rind is used rather often in cooking, so you've probably eaten it before, you just didn't know.

[CurlyLocks]

Indeed - I've often used it myself! I just never chewed up a whole piece of it!

[trunks2k]

The thing is, I don't think it tastes particularly good. I have no idea why I do that. Then again, I chew on lots of stuff. I've spent an entire day chewing on a straw from breakfast before. I have an oral fixation.

[rerant]

When my friend who is originally from the States first moved here she would always order sweet tea, when in Canada it's simply called iced tea.
Servers always thought she was nuts, and would tell her if she wanted her tea sweet she just had to add sugar, thinking she wanted regular hot tea.

[tollbaby]

When my friend who is originally from the States first moved here she would always order sweet tea, when in Canada it's simply called iced tea.

Ha! see? someone understands

[Food Lady]

Oh, I loooove me some sweet tea! I always make a 2-quart pitcher with 8 teabags and 2 cups sugar (4 cups to a gallon, as someone posted.) It does taste different if you add the sugar to cold tea. I don't know why. I've never called it sweet tea, though, just iced tea. My mom's from the south, but she doesn't call it sweet tea, either. I'm from CA and live in WI, but I'm half southerner, so I guess it's genetic...

[CaroPhoenix]

Virginia has a split personality. Where I live, it's considered "Northern Virginia" and no one here has southern accents & they deny that Virginia is a southern state. Once you hit about Fredericksburg area, you're stopped by the local cops and automatically given a gun permit, a hunting permit and they give you one obligatory dead deer to place on your front bumper.

Because we're on the edge of the North & South, some of the restaurants make Sweet & Unsweet Teas. Therefore, the question of Sweet or Unsweet.

[Cia]

Damn long-haired, Commie pinko...
Kidding.

Well I do have long hair, but I hate pink and my DH is part Russian...so close enough?

[rdp78]

Virginia has a split personality. Where I live, it's considered "Northern Virginia" and no one here has southern accents & they deny that Virginia is a southern state. Once you hit about Fredericksburg area, you're stopped by the local cops and automatically given a gun permit, a hunting permit and they give you one obligatory dead deer to place on your front bumper.

Because we're on the edge of the North & South, some of the restaurants make Sweet & Unsweet Teas. Therefore, the question of Sweet or Unsweet.

As a Southern Virginian I don't know if I should be offended since I don't have a gun or hunting permitt, never hunted in my life and I don't remember ever seeing a dead dear on someone's vehicle or thinking it's just a joke (yes, I know it's a joke).

Almost every restuarant in my area has sweet or unsweet available and I always order the sweet tea (it's my weakness). However, I haven't had it in awhile becuase I haven't gone out to eat and the last time I ate out I order water (I'm trying to avoid sweet things). Anyway I still drink tea but it's the green one and it's always with honey (sometimes I add some flavor). I sometimes make the regular tea but it's ussually hot.

[COMINATCHA]

Got the fries. Went home and wrote a letter of complaint to MacDonald's.

Did ya get some free fries out of them?

[tollbaby]

*makes mental note to stick to diet coke when in Virginia next month*

[CaroPhoenix]

As a Southern Virginian I don't know if I should be offended since I don't have a gun or hunting permitt, never hunted in my life and I don't remember ever seeing a dead dear on someone's vehicle or thinking it's just a joke (yes, I know it's a joke).

When I went to Mary Washington College for 1 year, that was the joke around the campus. Also, the residents of the town were "Frednecks".

And I do have the utmost respect for the Southern Virginians. My Uncle is a Texan that got transplanted to Martinsville, Virginia for his job.

It's just that the "Northern Virginians" all think they're hoity toity 'cos they're so close to DC that it goes to their head.

[rdp78]

When I went to Mary Washington College for 1 year, that was the joke around the campus. Also, the residents of the town were "Frednecks".

And I do have the utmost respect for the Southern Virginians. My Uncle is a Texan that got transplanted to Martinsville, Virginia for his job.

It's just that the "Northern Virginians" all think they're hoity toity 'cos they're so close to DC that it goes to their head.

Well, I never been to Northern part of the state (maybe through it) so I'm not sure how snotty they are (okay, i'm sure there some who aren't like that) but I've heard people who been up there talk about how uptight people are and the cost living is more expense then down here. Of course, people in my part like to joke about how West Virginians are the real hicks.

Anyway finally did taste some McDonald's sweet tea and damn, it's good. I did get one of their there Fruit & Walnut snack salads so I had something healthy.

[CaroPhoenix]

rdp, for the record, I am not a snotty, hoity toity person (though I married into a family of those types - makes it interesting around Thanksgiving time).

The fruit & walnut sandwiches are great! But it's the sweet tea that I keep going back for. For $1 plus tax a pop? You can't beat it.

And yeah, I have a problem with the high prices of the houses around here too.$425,000 for a townhouse? Time to move somewhere else, but all the affordable housing is so far south, Hubby would have to rent an apartment near his work & only see me and daughter on weekends

[rdp78]

rdp, for the record, I am not a snotty, hoity toity person (though I married into a family of those types - makes it interesting around Thanksgiving time).

I don't think I said you were but sorry for the misunderstanding but I did said that I'm sure not everyone isn't hoity toity up there. Then again we again we do have our share of snobs (well, maybe not snobby but a bit snuck up) down here too .