SC - Sweetened iced tea OOP/OT (was RE: sweet and sour)

[Nicholas Sasso]

>>> Philip & Susan Troy<troy at asan.com> 9/14/00 9:20:30 AM >>>
<<<  My next topic will be a philibuster on the evils of sweetened iced tea,
to be followed by a week-long series on chili with beans in it... >>>>>>>

It came to pass that my dear friend, a 40+ year old attorney of Southern rearage and dyed in the wool sweet tea drinker was trnsferred from GA to Camp Hill, PA for his job.  one of his greatest laments was that no one up there had a recipe for sweet tea, it appeared.  He came to Atlanta for a business trip after 11 months of exile, and suggested we get together for dinner with some friends down here after our local meeting.  I arranged dinner, and he ordered his beloved dextrose laden beverage of steeped vegetable matter . . . at which time it became obvious that I had chosen the ONLY RESTAURANT south of the Mason Dixon line that did not serve sweet tea.  After the moral outrage and attempt to dissolve crystal sugar into cold tea, he made me swear a blood oath that this would not happen again.

<<<. . . . . . The problem with Miracle Whip is that it is presented, in sandwich terms, as a fix for an item that is by no means broke (unless you count a finite shelf life,
costing some money to produce, and the use of eggs in an emulsified
sauce as evidence of brokenness), and what is worse, it cannot really be
made in a home kitchen, but only in an industrial kitchen with a full
chemical supply battery. It is therefore dubious as a member of the
class "Food". >>>>  <<<<Oh, by the way... did I mention... "Yeeee-uch!!!">>>>

To be honest, one would also have to admit that either Miracle Whip or Helman's could embalm the corpse of the family pet before ceremonious backyard burial.  A good hand made mayonnaise is tolerable as is it's derrived sauces, but nothing beats the sweet/sour tang of The Bread Spread.  It's many off brand knock-offs are sufferable in its absence, but the real mccoy takes the nod.  "FFOD" is a generous label for a sandwich of the aforementioned goo and pasteurized processed cheese food from Kraft, but we sucked 'em down as kids.

niccolo
(at least boiled dressings have less cholesterol)