I like hearing people say "sweet tea." [Laughter.] It's just, "Would you like some sweet tea?" "Sure!" It's a comfortable thing. Where Denver, if you say tea, you get hot tea. If you say iced tea, you get iced tea and put your own sugar in it.
- Eric Bailey
When I grew up here, if I ordered my tea in a restaurant, it would just be served iced and sweet. And now they ask me — which is one of the changes I actually don't like about Charlotte's growth. Because you shouldn't have to say you want sweet iced tea.
- Leigh Dyer
That was my favorite thing when I moved here. I moved here in late June, the hot summer. Ounces and ounces and gallons and gallons of sweet tea.
- Lori Perry
Do you know about the good luck tradition on New Year's Eve? It's been my tradition growing up to make black-eyed peas and greens and ham on New Year's Day and somehow that all symbolizes wealth and prosperity and good luck in the new year. Well, my brother married a woman who grew up in Vermont.... I noticed she was eating very slowly and had kind of a strange look on her face. And later she confessed she had not only never heard of the concept of doing this but she had never even had black eyed peas before.... it occurred to me that, "Oh, this is a Southern thing. Not everyone does this."
