I would have added this to the tea thread if it were not already closed.

I'm not sure quite how to take your response, or snobbery, and I don't recall ever making an attempt to play a game with you. I offered a no-fail recipe for what is generally expected when a person wants sweet tea. I've enjoyed it, as have my friends, and it's the way my grandmother made it.

My recipe stands for itself and does not require the approval of a self-appointed arbiter of all that is sweet tea, or "Southern" (I assume that's what your "Tennessee is a poser state" comment was meant to refer to).

Further, Tennessee is a lovely place to call home and I am proud to be here.

Since you purport to represent Southern culture (whereas I am from a "poser state"), perhaps you could also represent the famed "Southern Manners" and not insult good-natured people, or their home states. Or are those Southern Manners a myth in the 'real' South from whence you come? Here in the "poser state" of Tennessee we care about them very much.

being from the deep south, here as well, i love and am having sweet tea w/lemon, as we speak.