I have an 11-month old niece who loves iced tea.
Okay, that’s a stretch.
Hope has been married to my nephew Dustin for 11 months…and, like me, she is a daughter of the South who loves sweet tea. (She’s been tweeting about it all weekend!)
So, in her honor — and in honor of the day — I am re-posting my blog from this very day in 2010…
Happy National Iced Tea Day!
Today we celebrate the official drink of summer, that mother’s milk of the South — iced tea.
I grew up drinking my iced tea brewed with boo-coo’s of sugar, but today I prefer it with a just a touch of the pink stuff (Sweet ‘n’ Low).
Now, I know there are a lot of coffee drinkers out there who have never tried iced tea, or who simply consider iced tea the ‘second-class citizen’ of caffeinated beverages. If that is true, I ask you this:
Which drink is so popular it has it very own piece of flatware?
Iced tea
(It has its own long-handled iced tea spoon. Coffee? No such utensil.)
So, when the next heatwave leaves you feeling parched, consider a tall, thirst-quenching glass of sweet iced tea. If you’re lucky, you might just pick up a sexy Southern drawl along the way.
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When I saw the rows and rows of corn that line the highway in my hometown in Kentucky — right next to my brother’s driveway, in fact — I thought the golden tassels against the bright blue sky were evidence of a great harvest in the making.
Still refreshing, ya’ll
I have an 11-month old niece who loves iced tea.
Okay, that’s a stretch.
Hope has been married to my nephew Dustin for 11 months…and, like me, she is a daughter of the South who loves sweet tea. (She’s been tweeting about it all weekend!)
So, in her honor — and in honor of the day — I am re-posting my blog from this very day in 2010…
Happy National Iced Tea Day!
I grew up drinking my iced tea brewed with boo-coo’s of sugar, but today I prefer it with a just a touch of the pink stuff (Sweet ‘n’ Low).
Now, I know there are a lot of coffee drinkers out there who have never tried iced tea, or who simply consider iced tea the ‘second-class citizen’ of caffeinated beverages. If that is true, I ask you this:
Which drink is so popular it has it very own piece of flatware?
Iced tea
(It has its own long-handled iced tea spoon. Coffee? No such utensil.)
So, when the next heatwave leaves you feeling parched, consider a tall, thirst-quenching glass of sweet iced tea. If you’re lucky, you might just pick up a sexy Southern drawl along the way.
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Posted in Commentary, Cooking, Family, Food, Holiday, Humor, Life
Tagged beverages, caffeine, coffee drinkers, commentary, cooking, family, food, heatwave, Holiday, Humor, iced tea, iced tea spoon, life, mother's milk of the south, National Iced Tea Day, nephew, niece, parched, re-post blog, Southern drawl, sugar, Sweet n Low, sweet tea, the pink stuff, the South, tweet