Culture Shock

[Warrior Poet]

When I'm in the U.S. I'm usually in Ohio, so maybe instant is a midwest thing.

I suspect that instant tea is more a modern convenience thing as opposed to a regional thing. There's instant iced tea just about everywhere. I think Shemeska was merely commenting on the quality of said tea, versus that of more traditional brewing.

Warrior Poet

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Folks around where I grew up used to brew "sun tea" by steeping tea bags in water in large jars and leaving them out in the sun for a while (an hour or more, as I recall), then adding ice to it when it was time to pour to make iced tea. God that stuff tasted great. Do people still brew iced tea that way?

Warrior Poet

Actually I do. A few years back my wife got me a Gallon Mason Jar with a spigot in the side, I brew a new batch of sun tea at least one a week in the summer.