right now i want a huge glass of sweet tea and some fried okra.

what can i say, i live in alabama.

Fried okra..... blah! Yuck! I don't like it!

But, to each their own! At least it is a veggie.... right?

yeah, it's definitely a veggie. there's something i love about it's sliminess.

but yeah, not eating it. instead i'm drinking a gigantor bottle of water and swiffering the floor.

Oooo, sweet tea. Why'd you have to go and say that?

Oh, man, I *love* fried okra. One of my favorite meals as a kid was fried okra and fried eggplant. We'd make it on occasion and I would just die of happiness.

Of course, most of my favorite foods as a kid had the word 'fried' in it.

I have never liked okra prepared any way other than fried... such a shame..

Never heard of either. I must be Canadian or something. I'm assuming "sweet tea" is what you guys call iced tea?

yeah, except with sugar. :]

my mom actually makes fried okra in tomatoe soup!

I once had sweet tea for the first time in Virginia. OMG, it was like diabetes in a glass!! I could not believe the amount of sugar in it. It must be an acquired taste, and I was still so thirsty after drinking it!

Yeah, it's kinda an acquired taste. I hate visiting DH's family in Vegas and Cali. No star restaurants in the south are better than the supposed 5-star ones on the strip. Ugh. No wonder all of those women look like refugees out there, the food is absolutely terrible! I also got mad when I asked for sweet tea and the waiter just looked at me like I was an idiot and then brought me an iced tea and some sweet n low packets. Who the heck sits around drinking tea with artificial sweetner! UGH! Not this Creole girl, that's for damn sure.

I had that for dinner tonite!!!!! And a baked sweet potato with butter cinnamon and sugar. Naughty, naughty I know. It was a side dish to blue crabs, though, so that makes it a little more acceptable right? Crabs are low-cal...

I find okra a little slippery but I'd join you in that meal

I love fried okra, zuccinni and mushrooms. They're so fantastic. I've been craving some homemade greens, you can't get the stuff to make your own greens in the grocery stores here. I don't like sweetner in my tea at all.. even when I lived in the south I didn't drink sweat tea. I think I was too lazy to add sugar everytime I got a tea so I just acquired the taste for it unsweetened, and now i don't like it any other way.

Wait, whats the difference between ice tea and sweet tea?

Iced tea is just ... well ... iced tea. Tea that's chilled and served over ice.

Sweet tea is sweet iced tea. But it's not just tea with sugar in it. Sweet tea has to be sweetened with sugar while the tea is HOT so the sugar dissolves and becomes syrupy. Then the tea is cooled and poured over ice. Sweet tea made that way tastes VERY different from tea that has been chilled and then sweetened with sugar or sweetener. Sweet tea is very much a Southern thing.

IN some parts of the South if you ask for iced tea, you'll get sweet tea by default and you have to specify unsweet tea if you don't want it sweetened.

Oh and fried okra ... holy drool, Batman. I could really go for some of that right now.

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But that's how I make ice tea at home...I boil the water and the tea, sweeten it and then chill it. Have I been making sweet tea the whole time?