Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[fascination]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Yes! Cans are the best. I completely understand.

Yes, but the can has to be chilled first, and it must be in a glass with ice. It just doesn't taste as good if you pour a room temperature Coke over ice, no matter how much ice you add. (Which is why I always get juice on an airplane instead of Coke, because they don't chill the cans.)

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by fascination

Yes, but the can has to be chilled first, and it must be in a glass with ice.

No way. Just the can. But I agree that it must be cold.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

No way. Just the can. But I agree that it must be cold.

If you can get Mexican Coke - it is still made with cane sugar and comes in a glass bottle. Chilled and out of a washed bottle is still the best!
If you don't have a bodega or taqueria near by some grocery stores hide it in the ethnic foods aisle.

You can actually taste the difference between the cane sugar Mexican Coke which has a higher sucrose content. Coke bottled in Dallas which has more beet sugar and some fructose but a higher sucrose content, and Coke bottled in Atlanta which has a higher fructose content.

[LXA SE285]

Anybody ever try the Dr. Pepper bottled in Dublin, TX? It was made with cane sugar, and it was delicious. The local bottler ws forced to stop making it due to a trademark dispute with Dr. Pepper corporate, but you can still find it (for now) on eBay and Amazon.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Anybody ever try the Dr. Pepper bottled in Dublin, TX? It was made with cane sugar, and it was delicious. The local bottler ws forced to stop making it due to a trademark dispute with Dr. Pepper corporate, but you can still find it (for now) on eBay and Amazon.

The dispute was with the local bottler. It is no longer from Dublin, but you can still get cane sugar Dr. Pepper in Texas.
I have it imported....

[fascination]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

My daughter comes home from her first year of college this weekend.

But, back to the original post, I hope that your daughter did enjoy her first year in the South and found a warm welcome there

Edited -- Oops!, I had decided not to add that quote from Robert E. Lee (and certainly not multiple times). Not sure what happened to make it post like that. Please ignore.

[Smile_Awhile]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

Sheetz is great, but QuikTrip will always be my one and only.

My husband is obsessed with QuikTrip (so much so that he calls them "QT"), and constantly mourns the fact that they aren't in our area. Having been in one, I can say I understand!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

if only Houston were a little closer.

Actually, I can make my own of both if I had the time. But I have a number of sources for good pimento cheese, and the weekend ins't over yet.

Is there a bad way to have pimento cheese?

How about pimento cheese fritters?



Actually, maybe macaroni and cheese with pimento cheese is a possibility tonight. Hmmmm.

And that cake is beautiful -- maybe too pretty to cut! But where are the nuts? I've got to have nuts on hummingbird cake.

Fritters! Yum!

MC, would I serve you hummingbird cake with pecans? I think not!

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I also prefer cans to plastic, but I like fountains (assuming they're blended right and working properly) better than cans.

FWIW, the formula for Coke, and I'm assuming for most other soft drinks, is different for cans and personal-sized bottles compared to the formula for fountains and larger bottles, like the 2-liter ones. That's because they assume that people will drink directly from cans and small bottles, but that they'll use ice for fountains and larger bottles. So the Coke from fountains and larger bottles is slightly stronger to allow for dilution from the ice.

I didn't know this - although my parents would give us the Coke syrup when we were sick. Now that I think about it, maybe I had it wrong...?

[Sciencewoman]

I have to amend #7 from the original list. From my perspective, you CAN have too many sundresses. Delta charged Generallygreek $150 for her excessively overweight suitcase and garment bag on yesterday's flight home!

(That's on top of her storing most of her belongings in a storage locker she's sharing with several pledge sisters, and we brought home her cold weather clothes when we visited over Easter.)

[SWTXBelle]

Generallygreek needs to become friends with Fed Ex or UPS - shipping should be cheaper!

[AnchorAlum]

Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?

Discuss.

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Anybody ever try the Dr. Pepper bottled in Dublin, TX? It was made with cane sugar, and it was delicious. The local bottler ws forced to stop making it due to a trademark dispute with Dr. Pepper corporate, but you can still find it (for now) on eBay and Amazon.

My son has a carton of it in the glass bottles.

[IUHoosiergirl88]

If we're talking doughnuts, it's got to be either Long's Donuts in Indianapolis, IN or the newly opened GBD (Golden Brown Delicious) here in Washington, DC. GBD has some crazy doughnut flavors/dishes, including the Luther--maple sugar glazed with bacon! They do friend chicken and doughnuts.

In terms of the other things: I am un-learning to say 'pop' instead of 'soda' here on the East Coast and I miss my McAllisters. None around here

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?

Discuss.

Ha!
Sweet tea is NOT just tea with sugar. Sometimes the unknowing will suggest that you "just put sugar in your tea". That is not sweet tea.

You have to sweeten the tea while it is HOT in order to have the sugar melt and disperse evenly. If you just stir sugar into cold tea you do not have a consistent sweetness, and you end up with white gunk in the bottom of the glass. Yuck. That is tacky.

We don't like tacky in the South.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Isn't all tea sweet, y'all?

Discuss.

"Sweet tea" is redundant. "Unsweet tea" is an abomination and makes the angels cry.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Sweet tea is NOT just tea with sugar. Sometimes the unknowing will suggest that you "just put sugar in your tea". That is not sweet tea.

You have to sweeten the tea while it is HOT in order to have the sugar melt and disperse evenly. If you just stir sugar into cold tea you do not have a consistent sweetness, and you end up with white gunk in the bottom of the glass. Yuck. That is tacky.

We don't like tacky in the South.

LOL.

We always made tea with simple syrup. Steep the tea in the simple syrup (2 cups water, 2 cups sugar) while it's hot, and then dilute with the necessary amount of water to get a gallon of tea.

The angels will rejoice.