If you ask for "tea" at a restaurant, what happens and where do you live?

PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 177 points –

In the South East, they bring you sweetened (usually far too sweetened for my tastes) iced tea. This is amazingly universal.

I live in NC and have been probing the border for years.

For "nicer" restaurants, the universal sweet tea boundary seems to be precisely at the NC/VA border.

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South East? Is that like... India? Just say so, why so cryptic? Idk what cities in India NC and VA mean either, just use geographical names, common, can't know every city or province or whatever everywhere around the planet.

They're in the US. NC is North Carolina and VA is Virginia.

Why the fuck is Virginia VA not VI? And why do Americans expect everyone to know these 2 letter codes for their states?

Haha, I have no idea why. As for Americans, I think because they make up a big chunk of Lemmy users, lots of them just assume everyonen else is from there as well.