Re: CHAT: browsers

You have to be extra careful with tea in the States, because depending on
region, you'll get one of the following varieties (just with the word "tea,"
mind you):

-- a cute little silver kettle with a teabag, packets of sugar, cream (or a
variation) on the side, and a few slices of lemon
-- a tall glass of cold tea with ice, packets of sugar, and a few slices of
lemon
-- a tall glass of cold tea with ice, and sugar already in it
-- a tall glass of cold tea with ice, which on inspection turns out to have
come from the same machine that your Coke did
-- a tall glass of cold tea with ice, which on inspection turns out not ONLY
to have come from the same machine that your Coke did, but to have been
flavored by the folks behind Minute Maid fruit drinks (raspberry is common)

(list doesn't include more specific cultural variations, and I don't know
how you get it if you order tea in Hawaii)

It's enough to make a person order water instead.  At least with the
soda/soft drink/pop/Coke problem, you're relatively sure of the form of the
eventual product (it might turn out to be a Pepsico product instead of Coke,
but people who care that much should be specific -- I know I am).

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of John Cowan
> Analogously to "iced tea".  One may define the (American) South as
> the region in which a request for "tea", unqualified, gets you the iced
> variety.  Before you ask, it's "hot tea".
>
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